Title :
Bitcoin for smart trading in smart grid
Author :
Alam, M.T. ; Li, H. ; Patidar, A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Abstract :
Privacy aware anonymous trading for smart grid using digital currency has received very low attention so far. In this paper, we analyze the possibility of Bitcoin serving as the user friendly and effective privacy aware trading currency to facilitate energy exchange for smart grid.
Keywords :
data privacy; peer-to-peer computing; power engineering computing; smart power grids; Bitcoin; digital currency; peer-to-peer electronic currency system; privacy aware; smart grid; smart trading; Cryptography; Online banking; Privacy; Renewable energy sources; Servers; Smart grids; Smart meters; bitcoin; privacy; smart grid; trading;
Conference_Titel :
Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN), 2015 IEEE International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
DOI :
10.1109/LANMAN.2015.7114742
