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Elliptic Curve Public Key Cryptosystems
Elliptic Curve Public Key Cryptosystems
Introduction to Algorithms
k-anonymity: a model for protecting privacy
International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems
L-diversity: Privacy beyond k-anonymity
ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)
Distributed Authentication of Program Integrity Verification in Wireless Sensor Networks
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC)
Anonysense: privacy-aware people-centric sensing
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
PoolView: stream privacy for grassroots participatory sensing
Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Embedded network sensor systems
Nericell: rich monitoring of road and traffic conditions using mobile smartphones
Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Embedded network sensor systems
SoundSense: scalable sound sensing for people-centric applications on mobile phones
Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
Privacy-Preserving Querying in Sensor Networks
ICCCN '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks
Preserving privacy in participatory sensing systems
Computer Communications
PRISM: platform for remote sensing using smartphones
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
ParkNet: drive-by sensing of road-side parking statistics
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
Prisense: privacy-preserving data aggregation in people-centric urban sensing systems
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
Secure code update for embedded devices via proofs of secure erasure
ESORICS'10 Proceedings of the 15th European conference on Research in computer security
Event handoff unobservability in WSN
iNetSec'10 Proceedings of the 2010 IFIP WG 11.4 international conference on Open research problems in network security
Short paper: PEPSI---privacy-enhanced participatory sensing infrastructure
Proceedings of the fourth ACM conference on Wireless network security
Recruitment framework for participatory sensing data collections
Pervasive'10 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Pervasive Computing
Events privacy in WSNs: A new model and its application
WOWMOM '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
Anonymous connections and onion routing
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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Urban Sensing is an emerging paradigm that combines the ubiquity of smartphones with measurement capabilities of sensor networks. While this concept is still in development, related security and privacy concerns become increasingly more relevant. In this paper, we focus on a number of scenarios where nodes of an Urban Sensing system are subject to individual queries. We address the problem of protecting query privacy (i.e., hiding which node matches the query) and data privacy (i.e., hiding sensed data). We introduce a realistic network model and two novel adversarial models: resident and non-resident adversaries. For each of them, we propose a distributed privacy-preserving technique and evaluate its effectiveness via analysis and simulation. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to define and address both query and data privacy in the context of Urban Sensing. Our techniques are tunable, trading off the level of privacy assurance with a small overhead increase. We additionally provide a relevant improvement of data reliability and availability, while only relying on standard symmetric cryptography. The practicality of our proposals is demonstrated both analytically and experimentally.