Privacy Preserving Data Reporting Protocol Using Slot Reservation Scheme

Author(s):

P Tharcis , Christian College of Engineering and Technology Oddanchatram, Tamilnadu-624619, India; Akhil G Nath, Christian College of Engineering and Technology Oddanchatram, Tamilnadu-624619, India; Allwyn Antony, Christian College of Engineering and Technology Oddanchatram, Tamilnadu-624619, India; Bintu Varghese, Christian College of Engineering and Technology Oddanchatram, Tamilnadu-624619, India; Nikhil John, Christian College of Engineering and Technology Oddanchatram, Tamilnadu-624619, India

Keywords:

Data reporting, Participatory sensing, Slot Reservation, Data submission, Privacy

Abstract:

In this paper, we are proposing a privacy-preserving data reporting protocol for the participatory sensing applications, based on the notion of anonymity. The current available systems are used for the protection of the data and information only, they do not protect the privacy of the user and because of that a lot of hacking and complications are occurring. Therefore, protecting the privacy of participants is highly important in the success of participatory sensing. In this system the link between the data and the participant is broken after the transfer of the message .The key intuition is that, if we break the link between a data and the participant who reports or uploads the data, the participant’s privacy can be protected, without degradation of the data accuracy. This data reporting protocol operates mainly in two stages, slot reservation and data submission. In the slot reservation stage, a group of several participants collaborate each other to construct a vector which contains a set of slots in it, all with same length. Each slot contains a reservation message from any one of the participant. This slot reservation message consists of a pseudonym and the length of the data to be uploaded. The slots that are allocated to each participant will be unique. The slots are allocated by a third server authenticator which is present in the system, and because of that only the particular user and the third server authenticator knows about the particular slot. The participant will submit this reservation message in the data submission stage.

Other Details:

Manuscript Id	:	IJSTEV2I10046
Published in	:	Volume : 2, Issue : 10
Publication Date	:	01/05/2016
Page(s)	:	165-169

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