TY - GEN
T1 - A Privacy Framework for Charging Connected Electric Vehicles Using Blockchain and Zero Knowledge Proofs
AU - Gabay, David
AU - Akkaya, Kemal
AU - Cebe, Mumin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/10/1
Y1 - 2019/10/1
N2 - With the increasing interest in connected vehicles along with electrification opportunities, there is an ongoing effort to automate the charging process of electric vehicles (EVs). However, charging EVs takes time and thus in-advance scheduling is needed. This, however, raises privacy concerns since frequent scheduling will expose the charging pattern of the EV to the service providers. Nevertheless, the EV needs to be authenticated which means some information will need to be provided anyway. While there have been many studies to address the problem of privacy-preserving authentication, such solutions will be void if charging payments are made through traditional means. In this paper, we tackle this problem by utilizing distributed applications enabled by Blockchain and smart contracts. We adapt zero-knowledge proofs to Blockchain for enabling privacy-preserving authentication while removing the need for a central authority. The evaluation indicates that the overhead of this process is affordable to enable real-time charging operations for connected EVs.
AB - With the increasing interest in connected vehicles along with electrification opportunities, there is an ongoing effort to automate the charging process of electric vehicles (EVs). However, charging EVs takes time and thus in-advance scheduling is needed. This, however, raises privacy concerns since frequent scheduling will expose the charging pattern of the EV to the service providers. Nevertheless, the EV needs to be authenticated which means some information will need to be provided anyway. While there have been many studies to address the problem of privacy-preserving authentication, such solutions will be void if charging payments are made through traditional means. In this paper, we tackle this problem by utilizing distributed applications enabled by Blockchain and smart contracts. We adapt zero-knowledge proofs to Blockchain for enabling privacy-preserving authentication while removing the need for a central authority. The evaluation indicates that the overhead of this process is affordable to enable real-time charging operations for connected EVs.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85081206520
U2 - 10.1109/LCNSymposium47956.2019.9000682
DO - 10.1109/LCNSymposium47956.2019.9000682
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85081206520
T3 - Proceedings - 2019 IEEE 44th Local Computer Networks Symposium on Emerging Topics in Networking, LCN Symposium 2019
SP - 66
EP - 73
BT - Proceedings - 2019 IEEE 44th Local Computer Networks Symposium on Emerging Topics in Networking, LCN Symposium 2019
A2 - Andersson, Karl
A2 - Tan, Hwee-Pink
A2 - Oteafy, Sharief
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
T2 - 44th Annual IEEE Local Computer Networks Symposium on Emerging Topics in Networking, LCN Symposium 2019
Y2 - 14 October 2019 through 17 October 2019
ER -