Proactive Load-Shaping Strategies with Privacy-Cost Trade-offs in Residential Households based on Deep Reinforcement Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18888v1
• Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 08:45:04 GMT
• Title: Proactive Load-Shaping Strategies with Privacy-Cost Trade-offs in Residential Households based on Deep Reinforcement Learning
• Authors: Ruichang Zhang, Youcheng Sun, Mustafa A. Mustafa,
• Abstract summary: This paper proposes a novel deep reinforcement learning-based load-shaping algorithm (PLS-DQN) to protect user privacy. We evaluate our proposed algorithm against a non-intrusive load monitoring adversary.
• Score: 7.808916974942399
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Smart meters play a crucial role in enhancing energy management and efficiency, but they raise significant privacy concerns by potentially revealing detailed user behaviors through energy consumption patterns. Recent scholarly efforts have focused on developing battery-aided load-shaping techniques to protect user privacy while balancing costs. This paper proposes a novel deep reinforcement learning-based load-shaping algorithm (PLS-DQN) designed to protect user privacy by proactively creating artificial load signatures that mislead potential attackers. We evaluate our proposed algorithm against a non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) adversary. The results demonstrate that our approach not only effectively conceals real energy usage patterns but also outperforms state-of-the-art methods in enhancing user privacy while maintaining cost efficiency.

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