Research Article

Toward Privacy-Preserving Blockchain-Based Electricity Auction for V2G Networks in the Smart Grid

Table 2

Computation costs of offchain part.

StagesComputation costs

System initialization2
RegisterEV1  + 5 1  + 3
Charging station1  + 5 1  + 3
Aggregator1
Request for auctions2  + 4  + 4  + 2  + 4  + 4
Upload bids (1  + 2 ), where is number of bidders
Open bids1  + 5  + 6  + 4  + 2  + 4  + 3
Trace (1  + 1  + 3 ), where is the average number of matching queries