Permissioned Blockchain and Edge Computing Empowered Privacy-Preserving Smart Grid Networks

By Keke Gai, Yulu Wu, Liehuang Zhu, Lei Xu, Yan Zhang. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2019

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The blooming trend of smart grid deployment is engaged by the evolution of the network technology, as the connected environment offers various alternatives for electrical data collections. Having diverse data sharing/transfer means is deemed an important aspect in enabling intelligent controls/governance in smart grid. However, security and privacy concerns also are introduced while flexible communication services are provided, such as energy depletion and infrastructure mapping attacks. This paper proposes a model permissioned blockchain edge model for smart grid network (PBEM-SGN) to address the two significant issues in smart grid, privacy protections, and energy security, by means of combining blockchain and edge computing techniques. We use group signatures and covert channel authorization techniques to guarantee users’ validity. An optimal security-aware strategy is constructed by smart contracts running on the blockchain. Our experiments have evaluated the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Control and Systems Engineering, Information Systems

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Citations in the corpus

Blockchain for 5G and Beyond Networks: A State of the Art Survey (2019, methodology): “In the work [270], a permissioned blockchain edge model is introduced with the main objectives of privacy protections and energy security.”
Blockchain Meets Cloud Computing: A Survey (2020, methodology): “The work [144] proposed a novel approach that used smart contract to optimize task allocation in smart grid.”
Applications of blockchain in ensuring the security and privacy of electronic health record systems: A survey (2020, unknown): “Edge computing is proposed in Gai et al. (2019) to extend cloud services to the edge of network, provide computation power and improve Quality of Service of the applications.”
A Survey on Security and Privacy Issues in Edge-Computing-Assisted Internet of Things (2020, background): “In addition to its intelligent ability to reconfigure edge devices and route traffic of EC-assisted IoT networks, software-defined networking (SDN) also offers efficient and secure solutions for authentication and access control mechanisms [16], [37], [41], [89].”
Blockchain for Future Smart Grid: A Comprehensive Survey (2019, methodology): “Three main entities of the proposed approach presented in [73] and their working relationships.”
Edge-Computing-Enabled Smart Cities: A Comprehensive Survey (2019, unknown): “A typical smart grid based on edge computing and cloud has multiple layers: Cloud layer, edge layer, and IoT layer [95].”