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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Commun. Netw.
Sec. Security, Privacy and Authentication
Volume 6 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/frcmn.2025.1584152
This article is part of the Research TopicCybercrime Investigations in the Internet of Everything (IoE)View all articles
An Efficient Blockchain-based Privacy Preservation Scheme for Smart Grids
Provisionally accepted
Mohamad Badra1*
Rouba Borghol2- 1Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- 2Rochester Institute of Technology Dubai, Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Smart grids have revolutionized electricity management and distribution, but they also generate and transmit vast amounts of consumer data, raising privacy concerns. In this paper, we propose a blockchain-based solution to preserve user's privacy in smart grids and to mitigates data forgery, profiling, and man-in-the-middle attacks. Moreover, our solution provides security services such as authentication and non-repudiation to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data and ensure accountability and traceability. We validate our approach through testing and show that it is a simple, scalable, cost-effective solution with minimal computational processing overhead.
Keywords: Blockchain, Smart Grid, Privacy-preserving, Smart contract, Homomoiphic encryption
Received: 26 Feb 2025; Accepted: 21 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Badra and Borghol. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Mohamad Badra, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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