{"id":1135,"date":"2017-10-09T11:29:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T15:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T16:20:12","slug":"seminar-theoretical-limits-of-iot-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/2017\/seminar-theoretical-limits-of-iot-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar: Theoretical Limits of IOT Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Seminar: Theoretical Limits of IOT Privacy\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

WIRELESS SEMINAR SERIES<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Date and time:<\/strong> Tuesday, Oct 10, 3:00-4:00 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Location:<\/strong> Carleton University, 4359 ME (Mackenzie Building). Campus map<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title:<\/strong> THEORETICAL LIMITS OF IOT PRIVACY<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaker:<\/strong> Hossein Pishro-Nik, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ABSTRACT:<\/strong> Smart cities, connected vehicles, smart homes, and connected
\nhealthcare devices are examples of how the Internet of Things (IoT)
\nwill revolutionize our lives in the decades ahead. However, the
\npotential loss of privacy is a significant threat to IoT penetration.
\nThis leads to a great challenge: IoT devices will be generating an
\nastounding amount of data every second in the near future, and, even
\nif privacy-protecting mechanisms are employed, significant privacy
\nleaks can occur due to the sheer amount of the data generated and
\npowerful statistical inference techniques available to the potential
\nadversaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this talk, we discuss the theoretical limits of IoT privacy. The
\nmain idea is that a large class of IoT privacy problems can be modeled
\nmathematically as matching and de-noising time-series data. Using this
\nsetting, we introduce the information theoretic notion of perfect
\nprivacy. We consider a network of a large number of users, and assume
\nanonymization and\/or obfuscation techniques are used to preserve the
\nprivacy of users. We provide conditions under which perfect privacy
\nis achievable. Also, we provide converse results where an adversary is
\nable to successfully recover the data. Two models for users\u2019 data are
\nconsidered: i.i.d. as well as Markov chain-based models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaker bio:<\/strong> Hossein Pishro-Nik is an Associate Professor of electrical and
\ncomputer engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He
\nreceived a B.S. degree from Sharif University of Technology, and M.Sc.
\nand Ph.D. degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology, all in
\nelectrical and computer engineering. His research interests include
\ninformation and coding theory, stochastic analysis of wireless
\nnetworks, and vehicular communications. He has received an NSF Faculty
\nEarly Career Development (CAREER) Award, an Outstanding Junior Faculty
\nAward from UMass, and an Outstanding Graduate Research Award from the
\nGeorgia Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WIRELESS SEMINAR SERIES Date and time: Tuesday, Oct 10, 3:00-4:00 pm Location: Carleton University, 4359 ME (Mackenzie Building). Campus map. Title: THEORETICAL LIMITS OF IOT PRIVACY Speaker: Hossein Pishro-Nik, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst ABSTRACT: Smart cities, connected vehicles, smart homes, and connected healthcare devices are examples of how the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1137,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions\/1137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}