Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: Bitcoin for smart trading in smart grid

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"Bitcoin for Smart Trading in Smart Grid"
by M.T. Alam, H. Li, and A. Patidar
in the Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, April 2015

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles.

This paper duplicates original text from the papers cited below. The original text was copied with insufficient attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission.

"Privacy-friendly Tasking and Trading of Energy in Smart Grids"
by Tassos Dimitriou and Ghassan Karame
in the Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, March 2013

"NRGcoin: Virtual Currency for Trading of Renewable Energy in Smart Grids,"
by M. Mihaylov, S. Jurado, N. Avellana, K. Van Moffaert, I. M. de Abril and A. Nowe
in the Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the European Energy Market, May 2014


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.