The large scale adoption of adaptive services in pervasive and mobile computing is likely to be conditioned to the availability of reliable privacy-preserving technologies. Unfortunately, the research in this field can still be considered in its infancy. This paper considers a specific pervasive computing scenario, and shows that the application of state-of-the-art techniques for the anonymization of service requests is insufficient to protect the privacy of users. A specific class of attacks, called shadow attacks, is formally defined and a set of defense techniques is proposed. These techniques are validated through the use of a simulator and an extensive set of experiments.
Protecting Users' Anonymity in Pervasive Computing Environments / L. Pareschi, D. Riboni, C. Bettini - In: PerCom 2008 : Sixth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and CommunicationsLos Alamitos : IEEE Computer Society, 2008. - ISBN 978-0-7695-3113-7. - pp. 11-19 (( Intervento presentato al 6. convegno Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications tenutosi a Hong Kong nel 2008 [10.1109/PERCOM.2008.58].
Protecting Users' Anonymity in Pervasive Computing Environments
L. PareschiPrimo
;D. RiboniSecondo
;C. BettiniUltimo
2008
Abstract
The large scale adoption of adaptive services in pervasive and mobile computing is likely to be conditioned to the availability of reliable privacy-preserving technologies. Unfortunately, the research in this field can still be considered in its infancy. This paper considers a specific pervasive computing scenario, and shows that the application of state-of-the-art techniques for the anonymization of service requests is insufficient to protect the privacy of users. A specific class of attacks, called shadow attacks, is formally defined and a set of defense techniques is proposed. These techniques are validated through the use of a simulator and an extensive set of experiments.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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