A Multi-Domain Framework to Enable Privacy for Aggregated IoT Streams

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to integrate a large number of sensors, and actuators to the Internet. Multiple concurrent applications may cohabit on top of the same IoT infrastructure, and may re-use the same data for various purpose. However, privacy represents a major concern for many IoT applications, such as in smart building and healthcare. We propose here a multi-domain IoT framework where each domain aggregates distinct data-streams to respect their privacy concerns. We argue that removing sensitive meta-data and aggregating values reported by each data-stream is sufficient to hide individual private measurements. Moreover, relying on the Named Data Networking (NDN) paradigm, we can exploit caching strategies and perform in-network processing to ensure both scalability and privacy. In this paper, we discuss the necessary mechanisms to design a scalable inter-domain, privacy aware NDN scheme.