@inproceedings{81f009dccf1e4089bcba0201b4834f3b,
title = "Privacy-Aware Edge Computing in Social Sensing Applications Using Ring Signatures",
abstract = "Privacy on the Internet has become a major concern in recent years and is an ethical dilemma for Internet based applications. Social Sensing based Edge Computing (SSEC)is a category of distributed applications in which privately owned devices at the 'edge' of the network participate in data collection and processing. Traditionally in SSEC, it has been difficult to manage privacy without making a tradeoff with performance or accuracy. In this paper, we present Privacy-aware Edge Computing (PEC), a framework that utilizes ring signatures for implementing social sensing applications with full privacy and without sacrificing data quality. Under PEC, privacy is managed by the edge devices without the need of a third party trusted authority. We evaluate the performance of PEC on a realworld edge computing platform and through extensive simulation studies. The results demonstrate that PEC achieves a high level of anonymity with a constrained cryptographic overhead.",
keywords = "Edge Computing, Privacy, Ring Signaure, Scalability, Social Sensing",
author = "Nathan Vance and Daniel Zhang and Yang Zhang and Dong Wang",
note = "Funding Information: This research is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CNS-1831669, CBET-1637251, CNS-1566465 and IIS-1447795, Army Research Office under Grant W911NF-17-1-0409, Google 2017 Faculty Research Award. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the Army Research Office or the U.S. Government. The U.S. Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for Government purposes notwithstanding any copyright notation here on. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 IEEE.; 24th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2018 ; Conference date: 11-12-2018 Through 13-12-2018",
year = "2019",
month = feb,
day = "19",
doi = "10.1109/PADSW.2018.8644556",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - ICPADS",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "755--762",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2018 IEEE 24th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2018",
address = "United States",
}