Title
TussleOS: managing privacy versus functionality trade-offs on IoT devices.
Abstract
Networked sensors and actuators are increasingly permeating our computing devices, and provide a variety of functions for Internet of Things (IoT) devices and applications. However, this sensor data can also be used by applications to extract private information about users. Applications and users are thus in a tussle over access to private data. Tussles occur in operating systems when stakeholders with competing interests try to access shared resources such as sensor data, CPU time, or network bandwidth. Unfortunately, existing operating systems lack a principled approach for identifying, tracking, and resolving such tussles. Moreover, users typically have little control over how tussles are resolved. Controls for sensor data tussles, for example, often fail to address trade-offs between functionality and privacy. Therefore, we propose a framework to explicitly recognize and manage tussles. Using sensor data as an example resource, we investigate the design of mechanisms for detecting and resolving privacy tussles in a cyber-physical system, enabling privacy and functionality to be negotiated between users and applications. In doing so, we identify shortcomings of existing research and present directions for future work.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/3243157.3243160
Computer Communication Review
Field
DocType
Volume
Computer security,CPU time,Computer science,Internet of Things,Computer network,Bandwidth (signal processing),Trade offs,Private information retrieval
Journal
46
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
0146-4833
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
15
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rayman Preet Singh1807.33
Benjamin Cassell283.57
Srinivasan Keshav33778761.32
Tim Brecht452649.87