A metering scheme is a method by which an audit agency is able to measure the interaction between servers and clients during a certain number of time frames. Naor and Pinkas 21] proposed metering schemes where any server is able to compute a proof, i.e., a value to be shown to the audit agency at the end of each time frame, if and only if it has been visited by a number of clients larger than o...

Metering technology is one of the core technologies of the smart power grid. The overall metering solution and related products have a wide market space in the whole process of power production, which bring new opportunities for power distribution development from automation to intelligentialize, and provide technical supports for the power metering system platform. Because of the importance of...

A key issue for the success of a smart grid is the capability to accommodate efficient smart metering. Following the trend towards timely monitoring of energy consumption and production via Internet related technologies and in-network metering platforms, we need to investigate performance-related aspects of smart metering and how they affect the overall operation. We present here our experience...

More and more metering schemes based on some special protocols or mechanisms are used to calculate the number of visits which a website receives in a certain time frame. Then, the amount of money that an advertiser pay to a website depends on this number of visits. Until now, many protocols were suggested for metering schemes in literature. However, the discussion mainly focused on the theory o...

Critics of current tying doctrine argue that metering ties can increase consumer welfare and total welfare without increasing output and that they generally increase both welfare measures. Contrary to those claims, we prove that metering ties always lower both consumer welfare and total welfare unless they increase capital good output. We further show that under market conditions we argue are r...

This study presents a combined pneumatic seed-metering device (SMD) that could not only fill, carry, and meter seeds, but also switch quickly between seed-metering and seed-cleaning modes, and clean seeds thoroughly and rapidly. The seed-filling, seed-carrying, and seed-metering modes of the SMD were analyzed based on a theoretical kinematic model. Furthermore, a three-factor, three-level ortho...

A metering scheme allows a correct counting on the number of hits that a Web site received during a certain period. In this paper, we first derive tight lower bounds on the communication complexity |Vi| (i = 1, . . . , n) and the size of server’s secrets |Es| for robust and perfect (k, n)-metering schemes. We next show an almost equivalence between (k, n)-metering schemes and k-multiple-use A-c...

Recently appeared necessity of enterprises, homes and other objects energy consumption information automatic collection. For this purposes various metering devices by different vendors have been created. While using different metering devices, problem of central information collecting appears. This paper raises the problem of creating a web-interface for metering devices remote monitoring syste...

This paper proposes a cryptographic mechanism for metering the duration and/or the number of instances of running a data process. This mechanism has the following property: knowing a secret, one can validate a piece of metering evidence in constant units of time while without the secret the job of generating a valid piece of evidence requires time indicated by a value in the evidence. Because t...

Implementing smart metering is an important field for energy policy to successfully meet energy efficiency targets. From an integrated social acceptance and customer perceved vaue theory perspective we model the importance of customer value of smart metering in this regard. ...