Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

6-14-2011

Publication Title

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec)

Department

Department of Computer Science

Abstract

Anonymization is critical prior to sharing wireless-network traces within the research community, to protect both personal and organizational sensitive information from disclosure. One difficulty in anonymization, or more generally, sanitization, is that users lack information about the quality of a sanitization result, such as how much privacy risk a sanitized trace may expose, and how much research utility the sanitized trace may retain. We propose a framework, NetSANI, that allows users to analyze and control the privacy/utility tradeoff in network sanitization. NetSANI can accommodate most of the currently available privacy and utility metrics for network trace sanitization. This framework provides a set of APIs for analyzing the privacy/utility tradeoff by comparing the changes in privacy and utility levels of a trace for a sanitization operation. We demonstrate the framework with an quantitative evaluation on wireless-network traces.

DOI

10.1145/1998412.1998416

Original Citation

Phil Fazio, Keren Tan, Jihwang Yeo, and David Kotz. Short Paper: The NetSANI Framework for Analysis and Fine-tuning of Network Trace Sanitization. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec), June 2011. 10.1145/1998412.1998416

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