Privacy preserving distributed DBSCAN clustering

  • Authors:
  • Jinfei Liu;Joshua Zhexue Huang;Jun Luo;Li Xiong

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Science and Technology of China;Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology;Chinese Academy of Sciences, China;Emory University, Atlanta

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2012 Joint EDBT/ICDT Workshops
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

DBSCAN is a well-known density-based clustering algorithm which offers advantages for finding clusters of arbitrary shapes compared to partitioning and hierarchical clustering methods. However, there are few papers studying the DBSCAN algorithm under the privacy preserving distributed data mining model, in which the data is distributed between two or more parties, and the parties cooperate to obtain the clustering results without revealing the data at the individual parties. In this paper, we address the problem of two-party privacy preserving DBSCAN clustering. We first propose two protocols for privacy preserving DBSCAN clustering over horizontally and vertically partitioned data respectively and then extend them to arbitrarily partitioned data. We also provide analysis of the performance and proof of privacy of our solution.