Research Article

An Efficient Searchable Symmetric Encryption Scheme for Smart Grid Data

Table 2

Notations and description.

NotationsDescription

The amount of data in the plaintext data sets
Plaintext data sets
Total number of data attributes in a piece of data
The index of data
Collection of data attributes to be retrieved
The jth data unit in the ith piece of data
The length of the bit array
A string added when calculating the ID hash
A set of n-bit digits
Hash a bit string of arbitrary length to a fixed r-bit length
A pseudo-random function that maps an r-bit string to another r-bit string