Anonysense: privacy-aware people-centric sensing

Personal mobile devices are increasingly equipped with the capability to sense the physical world (through cameras, microphones, and accelerometers, for example) and the network world (with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth interfaces). Such devices offer many new opportunities for cooperative sensing applications. For example, users' mobile phones may contribute data to community-oriented information services, from city-wide pollution monitoring to enterprise-wide detection of unauthorized Wi-Fi access points. This peoplecentric mobile-sensing model introduces a new security challenge in the design of mobile systems: protecting the privacy of participants while allowing their devices to reliably contribute high-quality data to these large-scale applications. We describe AnonySense, a privacy-aware architecture for realizing pervasive applications based on collaborative, opportunistic sensing by personal mobile devices. AnonySense allows applications to submit sensing tasks that will be distri...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: MOBISYS
• Authors: Cory Cornelius, Apu Kapadia, David Kotz, Daniel Peebles, Minho Shin, Nikos Triandopoulos
• Keywords: Cooperative Sensing Applications, MOBISYS 2008, Participatory Sensing Model, Personal Mobile Devices, Wireless Networks