LPDA-EC: A Lightweight Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation Scheme for Edge Computing

Edge computing has emerged as the key enabling technology that empowers the IoT with intelligence and efficiency. In this data enriched infrastructure, privacy-preserving data aggregation (PPDA) is one of the most critical services. However, the security and privacy-preserving requirements and online computational cost still present practical concerns in edge computing for resource-constraint edge terminals. To cope with this challenge, we present a lightweight privacy-preserving data aggregation scheme named LPDA-EC for edge computing system by employing the online/offline signature technique, Paillier homomorphic cryptosystem, and double trapdoor Chameleon hash function in this paper. The proposed LPDA-EC scheme can achieve data confidentiality and privacy-preserving, ensuring that the edge server and control center are agnostic of the user's private information during the whole aggregation process. Through detailed analysis, we demonstrate that our scheme is existentially unforgeable under chosen message attack (EU-CMA) and ensures data integrity with formal proofs under q-Strong Diffie-Hellman (q-SDH) assumptions. Numerical results indicate that the LPDA-EC scheme has less computational and communication overheads.