Title: An efficient privacy preserving Pub-Sub system for ubiquitous computing

Authors: Yuan Tian; Biao Song; Mohammad Mehedi Hassan; Eui-nam Huh

Addresses: Department of Computer Engineering, Kyung Hee University, South Korea ' Department of Computer Engineering, Kyung Hee University, South Korea ' Department of Computer Engineering, Kyung Hee University, South Korea ' Department of Computer Engineering, Kyung Hee University, South Korea

Abstract: The Pub/Sub middleware has gained a lot of attention in the design and development of ubiquitous applications. The issue of privacy is of serious concern for applying the Pub/Sub to ubiquitous computing. The design of the privacy mechanism should consider the required efficiency of event dissemination in the underlying Pub/Sub middleware. In this paper, we address these challenges among ubiquitous applications by applying the proposed privacy-aware Pub/Sub middleware, which provides high performance and scalability with parameterised and prioritised attributes. It is able to provide fast and dynamic privacy management with low extra overhead.

Keywords: privacy preservation Pub-Sub middleware; ubiquitous computing; context awareness; privacy protection; privacy management; security.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2013.051374

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2013 Vol.12 No.1, pp.23 - 33

Received: 23 Sep 2011
Accepted: 09 Feb 2012
Published online: 14 Jan 2013 *

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