Social role-based secure large data objects dissemination in mobile
sensing environment
Mande Xie
a,
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, Urmila Bhanja
b
, Guoping Zhang
c
, Guiyi Wei
a
, Yun Ling
a
a
School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018, PR China
b
Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Sarang, Odisha 759146, India
c
School of Information Science and Technology, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 31001, PR China
article info
Article history:
Available online 21 February 2015
Keywords:
Network coding
Authentication
Hash function
Proxy re-signature
abstract
At present, in mobile sensing environment, almost all the existing secure large data objects dissemination
algorithms are centralized. The centralized servers publicize the sensing tasks and are also the authorized
parties to initiate sensed data dissemination. This paper proposes a novel social role and network coding
based security distributed data dissemination algorithm referred as PRXeluge to overcome the shortcom-
ings of existing centralized data dissemination algorithms. Unlike the existing participatory sensing
applications, in PRXeluge, service provider just publicizes the sensing tasks and utilizes a conditional
proxy re-signature technique to authorize different social roles such as authorized smartphone users
to be utilized as a contracted picture reporters, which sense the data and directly disseminate the sensed
large data. Furthermore, PRXeluge proposes the XOR (Exclusive-OR) network coding scheme on the basis
of Seluge security framework. To maximize the number of successfully decoded packets, PRXeluge intro-
duces a neighbor node table to determine the optimal coding scheme. Experimental results reveal that
the proposed PRXeluge shows better performance in terms of lower data packet transmission and dis-
semination delay compared to that of Seluge. Furthermore, it is observed from the experiment that the
proposed algorithm is stronger as compared to that of centralized scheme and performs the fine grain
access control without giving any additional load to subscriber nodes.
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1. Introduction
With growing popularity of smartphones, according to statistics
till date, the current global smartphone ownership has exceeded
1.9 billion and mobile data traffic is predicted to grow further by
over 100 times in the next ten years. Various sensors embedded
in smartphones such as photosensitive sensors, Global Position
System (GPS), accelerometer, bidirectional microphone and high-
resolution cameras, provide smartphone users very convenient
and powerful data-aware capabilities. Mostly participants in social
networking applications share real-time perceived multimedia
data or participate in a variety of hot events multimedia data-
aware services through smartphones or other mobile sensing
devices [1]. The great potential of the mobile phone sensors
led the researchers to develop various related applications
and systems. Fig. 1(a) shows a traditional framework of these
applications. These systems generally consist of a service provider,
which consists of multiple sensing servers, many smartphone
users, and the subscriber group of mobile social networks. First,
the service provider discloses the sensing tasks and then the regis-
tered or authorized smartphone users such as the contracted pic-
ture reporters send the sensed data to the corresponding service
provider. Finally, the service provider disseminates the sensed data
such as the pictures of hot event to the subscribers. In the central-
izing framework, the centralized servers are highly susceptible to
attack targets and it is easy to produce a single point failure (such
as Deny of Service (DoS) attack).
In this paper, as shown in Fig. 1(b), the framework of the
distributed data dissemination is employed. In the distributed
framework, the service provider only publicizes the sensing tasks
and the registered or authorized smartphone users sense the data
and disseminate directly the sensed data to the subscribers. In the
distributed framework, the secure transmission or dissemination
of large data objects is very significant and hot topic these
days. This paper mainly discusses the following four significant
points.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2015.02.007
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Corresponding author.
E-mail addresses: berniexie@gmail.com (M. Xie), urmilabhanja@gmail.com
(U. Bhanja), zgp4508@zstu.edu.cn (G. Zhang).
Computer Communications 65 (2015) 27–34
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