Publication detail

Outsourcing analyses on privacy-protected multivariate categorical data stored in untrusted clouds

Domingo-Ferrer, Josep, David Sanchez, Sara Ricci, and Monica Munoz-Batista

Original Title

Outsourcing analyses on privacy-protected multivariate categorical data stored in untrusted clouds

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

Outsourcing data storage and computation to the cloud is appealing due to the cost savings it entails. However, when the data to be outsourced contain private information, appropriate protection mechanisms should be implemented by the data controller. Data splitting, which consists of fragmenting the data and storing them in separate clouds for the sake of privacy preservation, is an interesting alternative to encryption in terms of flexibility and efficiency. However, multivariate analyses on data split among various clouds are challenging, and they are even harder when data are nominal categorical (i.e., textual, non-ordinal), because the standard arithmetic operators cannot be used. In this article, we tackle the problem of outsourcing multivariate analyses on nominal data split over several honest-but-curious clouds. Specifically, we propose several secure protocols to outsource to multiple clouds the computation of a variety of multivariate analyses on nominal categorical data (frequency-based and semantic-based). Our protocols have been designed to outsource as much workload as possible to the clouds, in order to retain the cost-saving benefits of cloud computing while ensuring that the outsourced stay split and hence privacy-protected versus the clouds. The experiments we report on the Amazon cloud service show that by using our protocols the controller can save nearly all the runtime because it can integrate partial results received from the clouds with very little computation.

Keywords

Cloud computing;Data privacy;Data splitting;Nominal data

Authors

Domingo-Ferrer, Josep, David Sanchez, Sara Ricci, and Monica Munoz-Batista

Released

1. 1. 2020

Publisher

Springer

ISBN

0219-3116

Periodical

Knowledge and Information Systems

Year of study

-

Number

-

State

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Pages from

2301

Pages to

2326

Pages count

26

URL

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10115-019-01424-4

BibTex

@article{BUT161210,
  author="Sara {Ricci}",
  title="Outsourcing analyses on privacy-protected multivariate categorical data stored in untrusted clouds",
  journal="Knowledge and Information Systems",
  year="2020",
  volume="-",
  number="-",
  pages="2301--2326",
  doi="10.1007/s10115-019-01424-4",
  issn="0219-3116",
  url="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10115-019-01424-4"
}