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2011

Wireless

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Adapt-Lite: Privacy-Aware, Secure, And Efficient Mhealth Sensing, Shrirang Mare, Jacob Sorber, Minho Shin, Cory Cornelius, David Kotz Oct 2011

Adapt-Lite: Privacy-Aware, Secure, And Efficient Mhealth Sensing, Shrirang Mare, Jacob Sorber, Minho Shin, Cory Cornelius, David Kotz

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As healthcare in many countries faces an aging population and rising costs, mobile sensing technologies promise a new opportunity. Using mobile health (mHealth) sensing, which uses medical sensors to collect data about the patients, and mobile phones to act as a gateway between sensors and electronic health record systems, caregivers can continuously monitor the patients and deliver better care. Although some work on mHealth sensing has addressed security, achieving strong security and privacy for low-power sensors remains a challenge. \par We make three contributions. First, we propose Adapt-lite, a set of two techniques that can be applied to existing wireless …


Short Paper: The Netsani Framework For Analysis And Fine-Tuning Of Network Trace Sanitization, Phil Fazio, Keren Tan, Jihwang Yeo, David Kotz Jun 2011

Short Paper: The Netsani Framework For Analysis And Fine-Tuning Of Network Trace Sanitization, Phil Fazio, Keren Tan, Jihwang Yeo, David Kotz

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Anonymization is critical prior to sharing wireless-network traces within the research community, to protect both personal and organizational sensitive information from disclosure. One difficulty in anonymization, or more generally, sanitization, is that users lack information about the quality of a sanitization result, such as how much privacy risk a sanitized trace may expose, and how much research utility the sanitized trace may retain. We propose a framework, NetSANI, that allows users to analyze and control the privacy/utility tradeoff in network sanitization. NetSANI can accommodate most of the currently available privacy and utility metrics for network trace sanitization. This framework provides …


Privacy Analysis Of User Association Logs In A Large-Scale Wireless Lan, Keren Tan, Guanhua Yan, Jihwang Yeo, David Kotz Apr 2011

Privacy Analysis Of User Association Logs In A Large-Scale Wireless Lan, Keren Tan, Guanhua Yan, Jihwang Yeo, David Kotz

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User association logs collected from a large-scale wireless LAN record where and when a user has used the network. Such information plays an important role in wireless network research. One concern of sharing these data with other researchers, however, is that the logs pose potential privacy risks for the network users. Today, the common practice in sanitizing these data before releasing them to the public is to anonymize users' sensitive information, such as their devices' MAC addresses and their exact association locations. In this work, we aim to study whether such sanitization measures are sufficient to protect user privacy. By …


Social Network Analysis Plugin (Snap) For Mesh Networks, Soumendra Nanda, David Kotz Mar 2011

Social Network Analysis Plugin (Snap) For Mesh Networks, Soumendra Nanda, David Kotz

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In a network, bridging nodes are those nodes that from a topological perspective, are strategically located between highly connected regions of nodes. Thus, they have high values of the Bridging Centrality (BC) metric. We recently introduced the Localized Bridging Centrality (LBC) metric, which can identify such nodes via distributed computation, yet has an accuracy equal to that of the centralized BC metric. The LBC and BC metrics are based on the Social Network Analysis (SNA) metric "betweenness centrality". We now introduce a new SNA metric that is more suitable for use in wireless mesh networks: the Localized Load-aware Bridging Centrality …