| SMS | Smart Metering System |
| SWM | Smart Water Metering |
| LWE | Learning with Errors |
| RLWE | Ring Learning with Errors |
| HE | Homomorphic Encryption |
| FHE | Fully Homomorphic Encryption |
| MHE | Multi-Party Homomorphic Encryption |
| MPC | Multi-Party Computation |
| CPK | Collective Public Key |
| CEK | Collective Evaluation Key |
| TB | Trust Boundary |
| CA | Certificate Authority |
| PKI | Public Key Infrastructure |
| DoS | Denial of Service |
| MitM | Man-in-the-Middle |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security |
| DP | Differential Privacy |
| LDP | Local Differential Privacy |
| TEE | Trusted Execution Environment |
| AMI | Advanced Metering Infrastructure |
| DLT | Distributed Ledger Technology |
| KB | Kilobyte |
| IND-CPA | Indistinguishability under the Chosen Plaintext Attack |
| IBE | Identity-based Encryption |
| PKG | Private Key Generator |