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Lightweight privacy-enhanced secure data sharing scheme for smart grid

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Smart grid leverages distribution networks and intelligent transmission techniques to advance the delivery of electricity, with a primary focus on enhancing reliability, security, and efficiency. This advancement is realized through bidirectional data exchange for consumption monitoring and operation optimization within the electrical system. Smart grid infrastructures commonly depend on precise monitoring of electrical system parameters to enhance the reliability and robustness of the grid. It is crucial to underscore the significance of maintaining data integrity while disseminating these measurements across diverse grid stakeholders over expansive network infrastructures. In this paper, we propose a lightweight privacy-enhanced secure data sharing scheme for the smart grid, which not only ensures that only authorized users in the smart grid can efficiently access the smart grid data, but also prevents sensitive information leakage from the access policies revealing about the protected data, data owners, or recipients in smart grid. Besides, we also present strict security proofs to prove the resistance to chosen-ciphertext attacks (CCA). Finally, some efficiency analyses are made to indicate the most prominent energy-efficiency our scheme enables.

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This work is supported by Demonstration of Scientific and Technology Achievements Transform in Sichuan Province under Grant 2022ZHCG0036.

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  1. Electric Power Research Institute, Yunnan Power Grid Co. Ltd, Kunming, 650217, China

    Zheng Yang, Hua Zhu & Chunlin Yin

  2. Academy of Military Sciences PLA, Beijing, 100010, China

    Zhidong Xie

  3. School of Information and Software Engineering, UESTC, Chengdu, 61054, China

    Wei Chen

  4. Chengdu E-Parking Information Science and Technology Co., Ltd, Chengdu, 61000, China

    Cheng Chen

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Zheng Yang’s contributions include writing paper (Sections 1, 2 and 4). Hua Zhu’s contributions include writing paper (Sections 3 and 4), implementing source codes. Chunlin Yin’s contributions include writing paper (Section 5), proofreading paper, and arranging and designing experiments. Zhidong Xie’s contributions include writing paper (Sections 6 and 7), and performing time consumption experiments of the works. Wei Chen’s contributions include providing paper idea, writing paper and evaluating the security of our solutions. Cheng Chen’s contributions include writing paper (Abstract and Section 8), providing the real-world security analysis and threat models.

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Yang, Z., Zhu, H., Yin, C. et al. Lightweight privacy-enhanced secure data sharing scheme for smart grid. Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl. 17, 1322–1334 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-024-01653-7

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