@misc{shin:senseright, author = {Minho Shin and Cory Cornelius and Dan Peebles and Patrick Tsang and Apu Kapadia and David Kotz}, title = {{SenseRight}: Reliable People-Centric Sensing with Unreliable Participants}, year = {2008}, month = {August}, publisher = {ACM Press}, copyright = {the authors}, howpublished = {Submitted to INFOCOM 2009}, keyword = {mobile computing, sensor network, pervasive computing, security, privacy, anonymity, urban sensing, ubicomp, dfk}, abstract = {As sensor technology becomes increasingly easy to integrate into personal devices such as mobile phones, clothing, and athletic equipment, there will be new applications involving opportunistic, people-centric sensing. These applications, which gather information about human activities and personal social context, raise many security and privacy challenges. Although some recent work addresses privacy in people-centric sensing systems, the mechanisms designed to provide anonymity limit the potential for accountability. Since data integrity is important for many applications, whether using traffic data for city planning or medical data for diagnosis, we focus on the challenge of providing integrity along with confidentiality, privacy, and anonymity. \par We propose SenseRight, the first architecture for high-integrity people-centric sensing. The SenseRight approach assures integrity of both the sensor data (through use of tamper-resistant sensor devices) and the sensor context (through a time-constrained protocol), while maintaining anonymity when desired. We demonstrate a prototype application using motes and a Nokia N800 tablet device, and show that our approach makes efficient use of resources (bandwidth and energy) and results in acceptable latency for realistic applications.} }