Quasi-Identifiers Recognition Algorithm for Privacy Preservation of Cloud Data Based on Risk Re-Identification

Mansour, Huda and Siraj, Maheyzah and Ghaleb, Fuad and Saeed, Faisal and Alkhammash, Eman and Maarof, Mohd (2021) Quasi-Identifiers Recognition Algorithm for Privacy Preservation of Cloud Data Based on Risk Re-Identification. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2021. p. 7154705. ISSN 1530-8669

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Abstract

Cloud computing plays an essential role as a source for outsourcing data to perform mining operations or other data processing, especially for data owners who do not have sufficient resources or experience to execute data mining techniques. However, the privacy of outsourced data is a serious concern. Most data owners are using anonymization-based techniques to prevent identity and attribute disclosures to avoid privacy leakage before outsourced data for mining over the cloud. In addition, data collection and dissemination in a resource-limited network such as sensor cloud require efficient methods to reduce privacy leakage. The main issue that caused identity disclosure is Quasi-Identifiers (QIDs) linking. But most researchers of anonymization methods ignore the identification of proper QIDs. This reduces the validity of the used anonymization methods and may thus lead to a failure of the anonymity process. This paper introduces a new quasi-identifier recognition algorithm that reduces identity disclosure resulted from QIDs linking. The proposed algorithm is comprised of two main stages: (1) Attributes Classification (or QIDs Recognition), and (2) QID's-Dimension Identification. The algorithm works based on the re-identification of risk rate for all attributes and the dimension of QIDs where it determines the proper QIDs and their suitable dimensions. The proposed algorithm was tested on a real dataset. The results demonstrated that the proposed algorithm significantly reduces privacy leakage and maintaining the data utility compared to recent related algorithms.

Item Type: Article
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/7154705
Dates:
DateEvent
9 August 2021Accepted
26 August 2021Published Online
Subjects: CAH11 - computing > CAH11-01 - computing > CAH11-01-01 - computer science
CAH11 - computing > CAH11-01 - computing > CAH11-01-08 - others in computing
Divisions: Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment > School of Computing and Digital Technology
Depositing User: Faisal Saeed
Date Deposited: 27 Oct 2021 14:52
Last Modified: 27 Oct 2021 14:52
URI: https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/12338

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