Title
TrustMeter: A trust assessment scheme for collaborative privacy mechanisms in participatory sensing applications
Abstract
In typical participatory sensing applications, mobile devices record a variety of sensor readings (e.g., sound samples and accelerometer data), which are tagged with spatiotemporal information and uploaded to an application server. The collection of detailed location data reveal insights about the users' whereabouts and daily routines, therefore seriously compromising their privacy. Users can mutually preserve their privacy by opportunistically exchanging sensor readings during physical meetings, thus breaking the link between the collected data and their permanent identities. The success of this procedure depends on the collaboration of all participating users. Our paper proposes a scheme called TrustMeter to assess the individual user contribution to this privacy protection mechanism. Based on peer-based ratings, our system attributes trust levels to each user allowing to readily identify and quarantine malicious users. We investigate the TrustMeters performance under different attacks by means of extensive simulations, and show that it succeeds in quarantining malicious users in most analyzed scenarios.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/
Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
data privacy,trusted computing,TrustMeter,application server,collaborative privacy mechanisms,daily routines,detailed location data,individual user contribution,malicious users,mobile devices,participating users,peer-based ratings,privacy protection mechanism,sensor readings,spatiotemporal information,trust assessment scheme,typical participatory sensing applications
Protection mechanism,Computer science,Computer security,Server,Upload,Computer network,Mobile device,Information privacy,Participatory sensing,Privacy software,Application server
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
9
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Delphine Christin132517.80
Daniel Rodriguez Pons-Sorolla210.35
Matthias Hollick375097.29
Salil S. Kanhere42405173.60