Edge Computing Based Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation Scheme in Smart Grid

Abstract

Smart grid is a highly intelligent power system integrating advanced communication technology, sensor measurement and automatic control technology, which is gradually replacing the traditional power grid. However, the smart grid faces challenges of balancing privacy, efficiency and functionality when processing massive amount of data. In this paper, a smart grid model based on edge computing paradigm is established, and then an efficient privacy-preserving multidimensional data aggregation scheme is proposed. This scheme adopts an improved identity-based signature algorithm and Paillier homomorphic cryptosystem to protect the privacy of users. In addition, super-increasing sequence is used in the proposed scheme to enable smart meters to report multiple types of data in a single reporting message, so that the Service Center (SC) can perform one-way analysis of variance on the data to provide users with more personalized services. Also the security analysis indicates that the proposed scheme works in protecting user’s electricity consumption privacy. Finally, performance analyses indicate that this scheme can effectively reduce the computational overhead.