Issue No.03 - May/June (2011 vol.8)
Jianneng Cao , National University of Singapore, Singapore
Barbara Carminati , University of Insubria, Varese
Elena Ferrari , University of Insubria, Varese
Kian-Lee Tan , National University of Singapore, Singapore
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TDSC.2009.47
Most of the existing privacy-preserving techniques, such as k-anonymity methods, are designed for static data sets. As such, they cannot be applied to streaming data which are continuous, transient, and usually unbounded. Moreover, in streaming applications, there is a need to offer strong guarantees on the maximum allowed delay between incoming data and the corresponding anonymized output. To cope with these requirements, in this paper, we present Continuously Anonymizing STreaming data via adaptive cLustEring (CASTLE), a cluster-based scheme that anonymizes data streams on-the-fly and, at the same time, ensures the freshness of the anonymized data by satisfying specified delay constraints. We further show how CASTLE can be easily extended to handle \ell-diversity. Our extensive performance study shows that CASTLE is efficient and effective w.r.t. the quality of the output data.
Data stream, privacy-preserving data mining, anonymity.
Jianneng Cao, Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari, Kian-Lee Tan, "CASTLE: Continuously Anonymizing Data Streams", IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol.8, no. 3, pp. 337-352, May/June 2011, doi:10.1109/TDSC.2009.47