An Initiative Towards Privacy Risk Mitigation Over IoT Enabled Smart Grid Architecture

The Internet of Things (IoT) has transformed many application domains with realtime, continuous, automated control and information transmission. The smart grid is one such futuristic application domain in execution, with a large-scale IoT network as its backbone. By leveraging the functionalities and characteristics of IoT, the smart grid infrastructure benefits not only consumers, but also service providers and power generation organizations. The confluence of IoT and smart grid comes with its own set of challenges. The underlying cyberspace of IoT, though facilitates communication (information propagation) among devices of smart grid infrastructure, it undermines the privacy at the same time. In this paper we propose a new measure for quantifying the probability of privacy leakage based on the behaviors of the devices involved in the communication process. We construct a privacy stochastic game model based on the information shared by the device, and the access to the compromised device. The existence of Nash Equilibrium strategy of the game is proved theoretically. We experimentally validate the effectiveness of the privacy stochastic game model.