Thwarting Nonintrusive Occupancy Detection Attacks from Smart Meters
Joint Authors
Du, Xiaojiang
Man, Dapeng
Yang, Wu
Xuan, Shichang
Source
Security and Communication Networks
Issue
Vol. 2017, Issue 2017 (31 Dec. 2017), pp.1-9, 9 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2017-01-10
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
9
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
Occupancy information is one of the most important privacy issues of a home.
Unfortunately, an attacker is able to detect occupancy from smart meter data.
The current battery-based load hiding (BLH) methods cannot solve this problem.
To thwart occupancy detection attacks, we propose a framework of battery-based schemes to prevent occupancy detection (BPOD).
BPOD monitors the power consumption of a home and detects the occupancy in real time.
According to the detection result, BPOD modifies those statistical metrics of power consumption, which highly correlate with the occupancy by charging or discharging a battery, creating a delusion that the home is always occupied.
We evaluate BPOD in a simulation using several real-world smart meter datasets.
Our experiment results show that BPOD effectively prevents the threshold-based and classifier-based occupancy detection attacks.
Furthermore, BPOD is also able to prevent nonintrusive appliance load monitoring attacks (NILM) as a side-effect of thwarting detection attacks.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Man, Dapeng& Yang, Wu& Xuan, Shichang& Du, Xiaojiang. 2017. Thwarting Nonintrusive Occupancy Detection Attacks from Smart Meters. Security and Communication Networks،Vol. 2017, no. 2017, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1202974
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Man, Dapeng…[et al.]. Thwarting Nonintrusive Occupancy Detection Attacks from Smart Meters. Security and Communication Networks No. 2017 (2017), pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1202974
American Medical Association (AMA)
Man, Dapeng& Yang, Wu& Xuan, Shichang& Du, Xiaojiang. Thwarting Nonintrusive Occupancy Detection Attacks from Smart Meters. Security and Communication Networks. 2017. Vol. 2017, no. 2017, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1202974
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1202974