Fall 2008: Seminar on Security and Economic Incentives

Instructor: Sheng Zhong

Time: 6:30pm-9:30pm Thursday

Location: 242 Bell Hall

Syllabus:

With rapid advances of Internet technology, security concerns and economic incentives have become crucial in the world of computing. In this seminar, we discuss recent research results and problems in the areas of computer security and economic incentives. Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to: privacy-preserving data mining, privacy in databases, incentive-compatible mobile computing, wireless network security, computational game theory, and applied cryptography. We stress on a balance of practical usefulness and theoretical depth; most papers covered in this class attempt to solve practically interesting problems using mathematically rigorous methods.

This is a research seminar with the target of exposing students to frontier research. There are no homeworks or exams. A number of lectures are given by the instructor and other classes are student presentations and discussions. Each student is also required to study a topic assigned by the instructor and submit a written report.

Reading List:

  • Security/Privacy

 

    • Privacy-Preserving Data Mining

Privacy-Preserving Data Mining. R. Agrawal and R. Srikant, SIGMOD 2000.

Privacy Preserving Data Mining. Y. Lindell and B. Pinkas, CRYPTO 2000.

Privacy Preserving Association Rule Mining in Vertically Partitioned Data. J. Vaidya and C. Clifton, KDD 2002.

Using Randomized Response Techniques for Privacy-Preserving Data Mining. W. Du and Z. Zhan, KDD 2003.

A Condensation Approach to Privacy Preserving Data Mining. C. C. Aggarwal and P. S. Yu, EDBT 2004.

Privacy-Preserving Outlier Detection. J. Vaidya and C. Clifton. ICDM 2004.

Privacy-Preserving Classification without Loss of Accuracy. Z. Yang, S. Zhong, and R. N. Wright, SDM 2005.

Deriving Private Information from Randomized Data. Z. Huang, W. Du, and B. Chen, SIGMOD 2005.

Anonymity-Preserving Data Collection. Z. Yang, S. Zhong, and R. N. Wright, KDD 2005.

A New Privacy-Preserving Distributed k-Clustering Algorithm . G. Jagannathan, K. Pillaipakkamnatt, and R. N. Wright. SDM 2006.

A Hybrid Multi-Group Privacy Preserving Approach for Building Decision Trees. Z. Teng and W. Du. PAKDD 2007.

Privacy-Preservation for Gradient Descent Methods. L. Wan, W. K. Ng, S. Han, and V. C. S. Lee. KDD 2007.

 

o      Privacy in Databases: k-Anonymization

k-Anonymity: A Model for Protecting Privacy. L. Sweeney, Int. J. Uncertain. Fuzziness Knowl.-Based Syst. 10(5), 2002.

Protecting Respondent's Privacy in Microdata Release. P. Samarati, TKDE 13(6), 2001.

On the Complexity of Optimal k-Anonymity. A. Meyerson and R. Williams, PODS 2004.

Privacy-Enhancing k-Anonymization of Customer Data. S. Zhong, Z. Yang, and R. N. Wright, PODS 2005.

Data Privacy through Optimal k-Anonymization. R. J. Bayardo and R. Agrawal, ICDE 2005.

-Diversity: Privacy Beyond k -Anonymity. A. Machanavajjhala, J. Gehrke, D. Kifer, and M. Venkitasubramaniam, ICDE 2006.

 

Workload-Aware Anonymization K. LeFevre, D. J. DeWitt, and R. Ramakrishnan, KDD 2006.

 

Anonymization for Sequential Releases, K. Wang and B. C. M. Fung, KDD 2006.

 

t-Closeness: Privacy Beyond k-Anonymity and l-Diversity Ninghui Li, Tiancheng Li, and Suresh Venkatasubramanian, ICDE 2007.

    • Wireless Network Security

A Pairwise Key Pre-distribution Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks. W. Du, J. Deng, Y. S. Han, and P. Varshney, CCS 2003.

Establishing Pairwise Keys in Distributed Sensor Networks. D. Liu and P. Ning, CCS 2003.

LEAP: Efficient Security Mechanisms for Large-Scale Distributed Sensor Networks. S. Zhu, S. Setia, and S. Jajodia, CCS 2003.

SIA: Secure Information Aggregation in Sensor Networks. B. Przydatek, D. Song, and A. Perrig, SENSYS 2003.

Location Privacy in Wireless Networks. H. -C. Hu and H. J. Wang, SIGCOMM Asia Workshop 2005.

Secure Time Synchronization Service for Sensor Networks. S. Ganeriwal, S. Capkun, C. -C. Han, and M. B. Srivastava, WiSe Workshop 2005.

Low-cost Attacks against Packet Delivery, Localization and Time Synchronization Services in Under-Water Sensor Networks. J. Kong, Z. Ji, W. Wang, M. Gerla, R. Bagrodia, and B. Bhargava, WiSe Workshop 2005.

o      Miscellaneous

Oblivious Signature-Based Envelope. N. Li, W. Du, and D. Boneh, PODC 2003.

Dining Cryptographers Revisited. P. Golle and A. Juels, Eurocrypt 2004.

Efficient Identity-Based Encryption Without Random Oracles . B. Waters, Eurocrypt 2005.

Policy-Hiding Access Control in Open Environment. J. Li and N. Li, PODC 2005.

Privacy-Preserving Queries on Encrypted Data . Z. Yang, S. Zhong, and R. N. Wright, ESORICS 2006.

  • Economic Incentives
    • Routing/Packet Forwarding

Mitigating Routing Misbehavior in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. S. Marti, T. Giuli, K. Lai, and M. Baker, MOBICOM 2000.

Performance Analysis of the CONFIDANT Protocol: Cooperation Of Nodes Fairness In Dynamic Ad-hoc NeTworks. S. Buchegger and J.-Y. L. Boudec, MOBIHOC 2002.

Sprite: A Simple, Cheat-Proof, Credit-Based System for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks. S. Zhong, J. Chen, and Y. R. Yang, INFOCOM 2003.

Ad hoc-VCG: a Truthful and Cost-Efficient Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad hoc Networks with Selfish Agents. L. Anderegg and S. Eidenbenz, MOBICOM 2003.

A Charging and Rewarding Scheme for Packet Forwarding. N. Ben Salem, L. Buttyan, J. P. Hubaux, and M. Jakobsson, MOBIHOC 2003.

Truthful Multicast in Selfish Wireless Networks. W. Wan, X.-Y. Li, and Y. Wang, MOBICOM 2004.

On Designing Incentive-Compatible Routing and Forwarding Protocols in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks ¨D An Integrated Approach Using Game Theoretical and Cryptographic Techniques. S. Zhong, L. E. Li, Y. G. Liu, and Y. R. Yang, MOBICOM 2005.

OURS- Optimal Unicast Routing Systems in Non-Cooperative Wireless Networks. W. Wang, S. Eidenbez, Y. Wang, and X.-Y. Li. MOBICOM 2006.

On Designing Collusion-Resistant Routing Schemes for Non-Cooperative Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. S. Zhong and F. Wu. MOBICOM 2007.

 

DARWIN: Distributed and Adaptive Reputation Mechanism for Wireless Ad-hoc Networks. J. J. Jaramillo and R. Srikant. MOBICOM 2007.

 

Game-Theoretic Model for Collaborative Protocols in Selfish, Tariff-Free, Multihop Wireless Networks. See-Kee Ng and Winston Seah. INFOCOM 2008.

 

Hidden information and actions in multi-hop wireless ad hoc networks.  Xiang-Yang Li, YanWei Wu, Ping Xu, GuiHai Chen, and Mo Li. MobiHoc 2008.

 

Incentive-Compatible Opportunistic Routing for Wireless Networks. Fan Wu, Tingting Chen, Sheng Zhong, Li Erran Li, and Yang Richard Yang. MOBICOM 2008.

 

    • Channel Assignment

 

Non-cooperative Multi-radio Channel Allocation in Wireless Networks. M. Felegyhazi, M. Cagalj, S. Saeedi Bidokhti, and J. ¨CP., Hubaux. INFOCOM 2007. 

 

Globally Optimal Channel Assignment for Non-cooperative Wireless Networks. Fan Wu, Sheng Zhong, and Chunming Qiao. INFOCOM 2008.

 

A game approach for multi-channel allocation in multi-hop wireless networks. Lin Gao and Xinbing Wang. MobiHoc 2008.

 

    • Miscellaneous

Wireless Operators in a Shared Spectrum . M. Felegyhazi and J.-P. Hubaux, INFOCOM 2006.

Border Games in Cellular Networks. M. Felegyhazi, M. Cagalj, D. Dufour, and J. ¨CP., Hubaux. INFOCOM 2007. 

Dice: a game theoretic framework for wireless multipath network coding.  Xinyu Zhang and Baochun Li. MobiHoc 2008.

¡¤        Other Topics

o      Opportunistic Routing

Beyond the Bits: Cooperative Packet Recovery Using Physical Layer Information. G. Woo, P. Kheradpour, D. Shen, and D. Katabi. MOBICOM 2007.

 

Trading Structure for Randomness in Wireless Opportunistic Routing. S. Chachulski, M. Jennings, S. Katti, and D. Katabi. SIGCOMM 2007.

 

XORs In The Air: Practical Wireless Network Coding. S. Katti, H. Rahul, W. Hu, D. Katabi, M. Medard, and J. Crowcroft. SIGCOMM 2006.

 

Network Information Flow. R. Ahlswede, N. Cai, S. R. Li, and R. W. Yeung. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 46, No. 4, 2000.