Efficient and privacy-aware multi-party classification protocol for human activity recognition. (15th November 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gheid, Zakaria; Challal, Yacine; Yi, Xun; Derhab, Abdelouahid
• Is Part Of: Journal of network and computer applications. Volume 98(2017)
• Page Start: 84
• Page End: 96
• Publication Date: 2017-11-15
• Subjects: Human activity recognition -- K-NN classification -- Multi-party computation -- Privacy preserving; Microcomputers -- Periodicals; Computer networks -- Periodicals; Application software -- Periodicals; Micro-ordinateurs -- Périodiques; Réseaux d'ordinateurs -- Périodiques; Logiciels d'application -- Périodiques; Application software; Computer networks; Microcomputers; Periodicals; 004.05; 004
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2017.09.005
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1084-8045

Abstract

Abstract: Human activity recognition (HAR) is an important research field that relies on sensing technologies to enable many context-aware applications. Nevertheless, tracking personal signs to enable such applications has given rise to serious privacy issues, especially when using external activity recognition services. In this paper, we propose ( Π -Knn): a privacy-preserving version of the K Nearest Neighbors (k-NN) classifier that is mainly built on ( Π -CSP+): a novel cryptography-free private similarity evaluation protocol. As a sample application, we consider a medical monitoring system enhanced with a HAR process based on our privacy preserving classifier. The integration of the privacy preserving HAR aims to improve the accuracy of the clinical decision support. We conduct a standard security analysis to prove that our protocols provide a complete privacy protection against malicious adversaries. We perform a comparative performance evaluation through several experiments while using real HAR system parameters. Experimental evaluations show that our protocol ( Π -CSP+) incurs a low increasing overhead (37% in Online classification and 50% in Offline classification) compared to PCSC, a representative state-of-the art protocol, which incurs 3600% and 4800% in online and offline classification respectively. Besides, Π -CSP+ provides a stable and efficient response time ( W =0.0x ms) for both short and long duration activities while serving up to 1000 clients. Comparative results confirm the computational efficiency of our protocol against a competitive state-of-the-art protocol.