A Survey on Privacy-preserving Schemes for Smart Grid Communications

TL;DR

This comprehensive survey reviews privacy-preserving schemes in Smart Grid communications, categorizing them by system models, analyzing their security measures, and identifying research gaps for future work.

Contribution

It provides a detailed classification and analysis of 30 privacy schemes for Smart Grids, highlighting their attack models and countermeasures, which was lacking in prior surveys.

Findings

Classified schemes into five categories based on system models

Analyzed attack types and countermeasures for each scheme

Identified gaps and future research directions in privacy for Smart Grids

Abstract

In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of privacy-preserving schemes for Smart Grid communications. Specifically, we select and in-detail examine thirty privacy preserving schemes developed for or applied in the context of Smart Grids. Based on the communication and system models, we classify these schemes that are published between 2013 and 2016, in five categories, including, 1) Smart grid with the advanced metering infrastructure, 2) Data aggregation communications, 3) Smart grid marketing architecture, 4) Smart community of home gateways, and 5) Vehicle-to grid architecture. For each scheme, we survey the attacks of leaking privacy, countermeasures, and game theoretic approaches. In addition, we review the survey articles published in the recent years that deal with Smart Grids communications, applications, standardization, and security. Based on the current survey, several recommendations for further research are discussed at the end of this paper.