A Trust-Based Approach to Control Privacy Exposure in Ubiquitous Computing Environments

Pho Duc Giang; Le Xuan Hung; Riaz Ahmed Shaikh; Yonil  Zhung; Sungyoung Lee; Young-Koo Le; Heejo Lee

1st International IEEE Conference on Pervasive Services

Research Article

A Trust-Based Approach to Control Privacy Exposure in Ubiquitous Computing Environments

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/PERSER.2007.4283905,
    author={Pho Duc Giang and Le Xuan Hung and Riaz Ahmed Shaikh and Yonil  Zhung and Sungyoung Lee and Young-Koo Le and Heejo Lee},
    title={A Trust-Based Approach to Control Privacy Exposure in Ubiquitous Computing Environments},
    proceedings={1st International IEEE Conference on Pervasive Services},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={ICPS},
    year={2007},
    month={8},
    keywords={Broadcasting  Computer science  Data privacy  History  Information resources  Personal communication networks  Pervasive computing  Protection  Space technology  Ubiquitous computing},
    doi={10.1109/PERSER.2007.4283905}
}

Pho Duc Giang
Le Xuan Hung
Riaz Ahmed Shaikh
Yonil Zhung
Sungyoung Lee
Young-Koo Le
Heejo Lee
Year: 2007
A Trust-Based Approach to Control Privacy Exposure in Ubiquitous Computing Environments
ICPS
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/PERSER.2007.4283905

Pho Duc Giang¹^,*, Le Xuan Hung¹^,*, Riaz Ahmed Shaikh²^,*, Yonil Zhung²^,*, Sungyoung Lee²^,*, Young-Koo Le³^,*, Heejo Lee⁴^,*

1: Computer Engineering Department, Kyung Hee University, Korea.
2: Computer Engineering Department, Kyung Hee University, Korea
3: Computer Engineering Department, Kyung Hee University, Korea,
4: Computer Science and Engineering Department, Korea University, Korea.

*Contact email: pdgian@oslab.khu.ac.kr, lxhung@oslab.khu.ac.kr, riaz@oslab.khu.ac.kr, zhungs@oslab.khu.ac.kr, sylee@oslab.khu.ac.kr, yklee@khu.ac.kr, heejo@korea.ac.kr

Abstract

In ubiquitous computing environments, service servers play a central role of actively providing information about a person to help people determine whether he is available for contact or not. A tradeoff exists in these systems: the more sources of data and the higher fidelity in those sources which can improve people's decision, the more privacy reduction. Alternatively, there is generally no a priori trust relationship among entities interacting in pervasive computing environments which makes it essential to establish trust from scratch. This task becomes extremely challenging when it is simultaneously necessary to protect the privacy of the users involved. In this paper, we first show how trust evaluation process of the user's system can be based on previous interactions and peer recommendations. A solution then relied on trust to control privacy disclosure is proposed that depends on pre-defined privacy policy. Several tuning parameters and options are suggested so that end-users can customize to meet the security and privacy requirement of a ubiquitous system.

Keywords: Broadcasting Computer science Data privacy History Information resources Personal communication networks Pervasive computing Protection Space technology Ubiquitous computing

Published: 2007-08-08
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2011-08-04

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PERSER.2007.4283905