CAREER: Towards Privacy-Preserving Wireless Communication: Fundamental Limits and Coding Schemes

职业：走向保护隐私的无线通信：基本限制和编码方案

基本信息

批准号：
2401373
负责人：
Remi Chou
金额：
$ 51.9万
依托单位：
University of Texas at Arlington
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2023
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2023-10-01 至 2026-06-30
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2401373&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
CAREER Towards Privacy Preserving Wireless

项目摘要

Ever-growing cyber-attacks can lead to data breaches and exposure of private user data held by third parties, including companies, government entities, or medical institutions. A possible solution to such a risk is to implement privacy-preserving protocols between users and third parties that prevent any private information disclosure in the first place. For instance, a user could prove to a third party that she holds a valid password without revealing the password. While solutions for such privacy-preserving problems exist, such solutions are poorly adapted to the open-access, noisy, bandwidth-limited, and distributed nature of wireless networks. Resorting to privacy-preserving protocols unadapted to wireless communication networks may result in suboptimal/inefficient solutions or, even worse, compromise privacy. This project addresses this challenge with a novel framework for privacy-preserving communication specifically adapted to wireless networks. The anticipated benefits are stronger privacy guarantees, improved data rates, and improved scalability, compared to traditional approaches. The project integrates an educational component in the broad field of cybersecurity under the form of i) graduate student training, ii) project- and research-oriented undergraduate student education, and iii) outreach to K-12 students.This project aims to build a comprehensive framework that will enable the fundamental understanding and design of privacy-preserving wireless communication protocols. The construction of this framework is organized around three thrusts. In the first thrust, to improve data rates and scalability, the project investigates novel building blocks for privacy-preserving protocols that incorporate wireless communication constraints and enable multiuser communication protocols. In the second thrust, the project investigates solutions to make privacy-preserving protocols robust to adversarial behaviors. For instance, legitimate protocol users could exhibit malicious behaviors, or unauthorized network users could launch wireless-specific attacks, such as eavesdropping, jamming, or man-in-the-middle attacks. In the third thrust, the project explores the construction of low-complexity wireless protocols with information-theoretic privacy guarantees via novel coding techniques from coding theory, cryptography, and deep learning.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

不断增长的网络攻击可能会导致数据泄露并暴露于包括公司，政府实体或医疗机构在内的第三方持有的私人用户数据。这种风险的一种可能解决方案是在用户和第三方之间实施隐私的协议，以阻止任何私人信息披露。例如，用户可以向第三方证明她持有有效密码而无需透露密码。尽管存在此类隐私问题的解决方案，但此类解决方案的适应性很差，适应了无线网络的开放式，嘈杂，带宽限制和分布性的性质。诉诸于无线通信网络的保护隐私协议可能会导致次优/效率低下的解决方案，甚至更糟的是妥协隐私。该项目通过专门适用于无线网络的新型框架来解决这一挑战。与传统方法相比，预期的好处是更强的隐私保证，提高数据速率和提高的可伸缩性。该项目以i）研究生培训的形式在网络安全的广泛领域中整合了教育组成部分，ii）项目和研究的学生教育，以及III）与K-12学生的联系。该项目旨在构建一个全面的框架，以构建对具有隐私无效的无效沟通协议的基本理解和设计。该框架的构建围绕三个推力组织。在第一个推力中，为了提高数据速率和可扩展性，该项目研究了隐私保护协议的新颖构建块，这些协议包含了无线通信约束并启用多用户通信协议。在第二个推力中，该项目调查了解决方案，以使对对抗性行为具有牢固的保护协议。例如，合法的协议用户可以表现出恶意行为，或者未经授权的网络用户可以发起无线特定的攻击，例如窃听，干扰或中间攻击。在第三个方面，该项目探讨了通过编码理论，加密和深度学习的新颖编码技术保证的低复杂性无线协议的构建。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响来评估的支持，并被视为值得通过评估。