Title
Achieve privacy-preserving simplicial depth query over collaborative cloud servers
Abstract
The simplicial depth (SD) of a query point $q\in \mathbb {R}^{d}$ with respect to a dataset $S\subset \mathbb {R}^{d}$ is defined based on counting all (d + 1)-dimensional simplices obtained from S that contain q. The simplicial depth is a ranking function which is frequently used in order to sort a multivariate dataset. In the higher dimension d, no better algorithm is known than the brute force method which takes Θ(nd+ 1) time, where |S| = n. Unfortunately, in contrast to the many advantages that have been previously identified by research studies, this depth function requires a massive amount of computation particularly for higher dimensional datasets. This challenge could be overcome by offloading the computation to cloud servers. However, delegating simplicial depth queries to not fully trusted cloud servers would be a source of serious security breaches and privacy issues. Therefore, in this paper, we target the privacy-preserving simplicial depth query over collaborative cloud servers. To this end, two resource-abundant cloud servers will be employed to perform such time consuming computation while maintaining the user’s privacy. Security analysis shows our proposed scheme achieves privacy-preserving requirements. In addition, some experiments based on a dataset generated by normal distribution are conducted, and the results validate the efficiency and practicality of our proposed scheme. Although this work only focuses on the planar case, our proposed scheme can be extended into higher dimension cases without significant alterations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1007/s12083-019-00810-7
Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Computational geometry, Data depth, Simplicial depth, Privacy-preserving, Homomorphic encryption, Collaborative cloud, Computation offloading
Homomorphic encryption,Brute-force search,Ranking,Computer science,sort,Computational geometry,Computation offloading,Theoretical computer science,Security analysis,Distributed computing,Computation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
13
1
1936-6442
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hassan Mahdikhani1112.63
Rasoul Shahsavarifar200.34
Rongxing Lu35091301.87
David Bremner47810.10