2017/08/15 by Miguel Arrieta, Arrieta, Miguel, Iñaki Esnaola +1
Engineering · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Information Theory (cs.IT) #Smart Grid Energy Management #Smart Grid Security and Resilience #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #Wireless Communication Security Techniques #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1708.04429
openalex publication_date 2017/08/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
A battery charging policy that provides privacy guarantees for smart meter systems with finite capacity battery is proposed. For this policy an upper bound on the information leakage rate is provided. The upper bound applies for general random processes modelling the energy consumption of the user. It is shown that the average energy consumption of the user determines the information leakage rate to the utility provider. The upper bound is shown to be tight by deriving the probability law of a random process achieving the bound.