Dual Utilization of Perturbation for Stream Data Publication under Local Differential Privacy

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Auteurs principaux: Du, Rong, Ye, Qingqing, Xiao, Yaxin, Yu, Liantong, Fu, Yue, Hu, Haibo
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author Du, Rong
Ye, Qingqing
Xiao, Yaxin
Yu, Liantong
Fu, Yue
Hu, Haibo
author_facet Du, Rong
Ye, Qingqing
Xiao, Yaxin
Yu, Liantong
Fu, Yue
Hu, Haibo
contents Stream data from real-time distributed systems such as IoT, tele-health, and crowdsourcing has become an important data source. However, the collection and analysis of user-generated stream data raise privacy concerns due to the potential exposure of sensitive information. To address these concerns, local differential privacy (LDP) has emerged as a promising standard. Nevertheless, applying LDP to stream data presents significant challenges, as stream data often involves a large or even infinite number of values. Allocating a given privacy budget across these data points would introduce overwhelming LDP noise to the original stream data. Beyond existing approaches that merely use perturbed values for estimating statistics, our design leverages them for both perturbation and estimation. This dual utilization arises from a key observation: each user knows their own ground truth and perturbed values, enabling a precise computation of the deviation error caused by perturbation. By incorporating this deviation into the perturbation process of subsequent values, the previous noise can be calibrated. Following this insight, we introduce the Iterative Perturbation Parameterization (IPP) method, which utilizes current perturbed results to calibrate the subsequent perturbation process. To enhance the robustness of calibration and reduce sensitivity, two algorithms, namely Accumulated Perturbation Parameterization (APP) and Clipped Accumulated Perturbation Parameterization (CAPP) are further developed. We prove that these three algorithms satisfy $w$-event differential privacy while significantly improving utility. Experimental results demonstrate that our techniques outperform state-of-the-art LDP stream publishing solutions in terms of utility, while retaining the same privacy guarantee.
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spellingShingle Dual Utilization of Perturbation for Stream Data Publication under Local Differential Privacy
Du, Rong
Ye, Qingqing
Xiao, Yaxin
Yu, Liantong
Fu, Yue
Hu, Haibo
Cryptography and Security
Databases
Stream data from real-time distributed systems such as IoT, tele-health, and crowdsourcing has become an important data source. However, the collection and analysis of user-generated stream data raise privacy concerns due to the potential exposure of sensitive information. To address these concerns, local differential privacy (LDP) has emerged as a promising standard. Nevertheless, applying LDP to stream data presents significant challenges, as stream data often involves a large or even infinite number of values. Allocating a given privacy budget across these data points would introduce overwhelming LDP noise to the original stream data. Beyond existing approaches that merely use perturbed values for estimating statistics, our design leverages them for both perturbation and estimation. This dual utilization arises from a key observation: each user knows their own ground truth and perturbed values, enabling a precise computation of the deviation error caused by perturbation. By incorporating this deviation into the perturbation process of subsequent values, the previous noise can be calibrated. Following this insight, we introduce the Iterative Perturbation Parameterization (IPP) method, which utilizes current perturbed results to calibrate the subsequent perturbation process. To enhance the robustness of calibration and reduce sensitivity, two algorithms, namely Accumulated Perturbation Parameterization (APP) and Clipped Accumulated Perturbation Parameterization (CAPP) are further developed. We prove that these three algorithms satisfy $w$-event differential privacy while significantly improving utility. Experimental results demonstrate that our techniques outperform state-of-the-art LDP stream publishing solutions in terms of utility, while retaining the same privacy guarantee.
title Dual Utilization of Perturbation for Stream Data Publication under Local Differential Privacy
topic Cryptography and Security
Databases
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.14993