Smart grid proposals threaten user privacy by potentially disclosing fine-grained
consumption data to utility providers, primarily for time-of-use billing, but also for profiling …

Safeguarding the data collected by smart meters is essential because the disclosure of this
information may threaten the privacy of the consumer. By obtaining them, hackers can find …

Emerging industrial platforms such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial Internet (II) in the
US and Industrie 4.0 in Europe have tremendously accelerated the development of new …

Distributed usage control is concerned with how data may or may not be used in distributed
system environments after initial access has been granted. If data flows through a distributed …

The increased performance and cost-efficiency of modern multi-core architectures allows for
packet processing implemented in software instead of using dedicated hardware. Such …

Data usage control enables data owners to enforce policies over how their data may be
used after they have been released and accessed. We address distributed aspects of this …

Privacy-preserving billing protocols are useful in settings where a meter measures user
consumption of some service, such as smart metering of utility consumption, pay-as-you …

Distributed usage control is concerned with how data may or may not be used after initial
access to it has been granted and is therefore particularly important in distributed system …

Usage control is concerned with how data is used after access to it has been granted. In
existing usage control enforcement frameworks, policies are assumed to exist and the …

While smart metering is a key technology for reaching a sustainable consumption of
resources, smart buildings are on their way to provide ubiquitous home automation. These …