Competitive privacy in the smart grid

Lalitha Sankar, Soummya Kar, H. Vincent Poor

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

2 Scopus citations

Abstract

The requirement of wide-area monitoring in the deregulated electric grid is driving the need for distributed state estimation. This leads to a novel problem of competitive privacy amongst energy providers (operators) that captures the conflict between the need for collaboration to estimate the global system state with high fidelity (utility) and the need to withhold data (privacy) for competitive reasons. The precise tradeoff between utility and privacy is made explicit using rate distortion theory with privacy constraints for a two-operator network. Practical approaches are briefly discussed.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationConference Record of the 46th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, ASILOMAR 2012
Pages1554-1558
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 2012
Event46th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, ASILOMAR 2012 - Pacific Grove, CA, United States
Duration: Nov 4 2012Nov 7 2012

Publication series

NameConference Record - Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers
ISSN (Print)1058-6393

Other

Other46th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, ASILOMAR 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPacific Grove, CA
Period11/4/1211/7/12

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Signal Processing
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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