Location Privacy Preservation in Database-Driven Wireless Cognitive Networks Through Encrypted Probabilistic Data Structures

Mohamed Grissa*, Attila A. Yavuz, Bechir Hamdaoui

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose new location privacy preserving schemes for database-driven cognitive radio networks that protect secondary users' (SUs) location privacy while allowing them to learn spectrum availability in their vicinity. Our schemes harness probabilistic set membership data structures to exploit the structured nature of spectrum databases (DBs) and SUs' queries. This enables us to create a compact representation of DB that could be queried by SUs without having to share their location with DB, thus guaranteeing their location privacy. Our proposed schemes offer different cost-performance characteristics. Our first scheme relies on a simple yet powerful two-party protocol that achieves unconditional security with a plausible communication overhead by making DB send a compacted version of its content to SU which needs only to query this data structure to learn spectrum availability. Our second scheme achieves significantly lower communication and computation overhead for SUs, but requires an additional architectural entity which receives the compacted version of the database and fetches the spectrum availability information in lieu of SUs to alleviate the overhead on the latter. We show that our schemes are secure, and also demonstrate that they offer significant advantages over existing alternatives for various performance and/or security metrics.

Original languageEnglish
Article number7921556
Pages (from-to)255-266
Number of pages12
JournalIEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking
Volume3
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2017
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Database-driven spectrum availability
  • cognitive radio networks
  • location privacy preservation
  • set membership data structures

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