Privacy-Preserving Distributed Analytics in Fog-Enabled IoT Systems

The Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved significantly with advances in gathering data that can be extracted to provide knowledge and facilitate decision-making processes. Currently, IoT data analytics encountered challenges such as growing data volumes collected by IoT devices and fast response req...

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Main Author: Liang Zhao
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-10-01
Series:Sensors
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/21/6153
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description The Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved significantly with advances in gathering data that can be extracted to provide knowledge and facilitate decision-making processes. Currently, IoT data analytics encountered challenges such as growing data volumes collected by IoT devices and fast response requirements for time-sensitive applications in which traditional Cloud-based solution is unable to meet due to bandwidth and high latency limitations. In this paper, we develop a distributed analytics framework for fog-enabled IoT systems aiming to avoid raw data movement and reduce latency. The distributed framework leverages the computational capacities of all the participants such as edge devices and fog nodes and allows them to obtain the global optimal solution locally. To further enhance the privacy of data holders in the system, a privacy-preserving protocol is proposed using cryptographic schemes. Security analysis was conducted and it verified that exact private information about any edge device’s raw data would not be inferred by an honest-but-curious neighbor in the proposed secure protocol. In addition, the accuracy of solution is unaffected in the secure protocol comparing to the proposed distributed algorithm without encryption. We further conducted experiments on three case studies: seismic imaging, diabetes progression prediction, and Enron email classification. On seismic imaging problem, the proposed algorithm can be up to one order of magnitude faster than the benchmarks in reaching the optimal solution. The evaluation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology and demonstrate its potential to be a promising solution for data analytics in fog-enabled IoT systems.
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spelling doaj.art-2f5c9a10a4264eb1a8c998395a98e3182023-11-20T19:00:42ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202020-10-012021615310.3390/s20216153Privacy-Preserving Distributed Analytics in Fog-Enabled IoT SystemsLiang Zhao0Department of Information Technology, Kennesaw State University, Marietta, GA 30060, USAThe Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved significantly with advances in gathering data that can be extracted to provide knowledge and facilitate decision-making processes. Currently, IoT data analytics encountered challenges such as growing data volumes collected by IoT devices and fast response requirements for time-sensitive applications in which traditional Cloud-based solution is unable to meet due to bandwidth and high latency limitations. In this paper, we develop a distributed analytics framework for fog-enabled IoT systems aiming to avoid raw data movement and reduce latency. The distributed framework leverages the computational capacities of all the participants such as edge devices and fog nodes and allows them to obtain the global optimal solution locally. To further enhance the privacy of data holders in the system, a privacy-preserving protocol is proposed using cryptographic schemes. Security analysis was conducted and it verified that exact private information about any edge device’s raw data would not be inferred by an honest-but-curious neighbor in the proposed secure protocol. In addition, the accuracy of solution is unaffected in the secure protocol comparing to the proposed distributed algorithm without encryption. We further conducted experiments on three case studies: seismic imaging, diabetes progression prediction, and Enron email classification. On seismic imaging problem, the proposed algorithm can be up to one order of magnitude faster than the benchmarks in reaching the optimal solution. The evaluation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology and demonstrate its potential to be a promising solution for data analytics in fog-enabled IoT systems.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/21/6153privacy-preservingdistributed analyticsfog computinginternet of things
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privacy-preserving
distributed analytics
fog computing
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title Privacy-Preserving Distributed Analytics in Fog-Enabled IoT Systems
title_full Privacy-Preserving Distributed Analytics in Fog-Enabled IoT Systems
title_fullStr Privacy-Preserving Distributed Analytics in Fog-Enabled IoT Systems
title_full_unstemmed Privacy-Preserving Distributed Analytics in Fog-Enabled IoT Systems
title_short Privacy-Preserving Distributed Analytics in Fog-Enabled IoT Systems
title_sort privacy preserving distributed analytics in fog enabled iot systems
topic privacy-preserving
distributed analytics
fog computing
internet of things
url https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/21/6153
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