Decentralized Privacy Preservation in Smart Cities, 2024 Wireless Networks Series

This book investigates decentralized trust-based privacy-preserving solutions in smart cities. The authors first present an overview of smart cities and privacy challenges and discuss the benefits of adopting decentralized trust models in achieving privacy preservation. The authors then give a comprehensive review of fundamental decentralized techniques and privacy-preserving cryptographic techniques. The next four chapters each detail a decentralized trust-based scheme, focusing respectively on privacy-preserving identity management, cross-domain authentication, data analytics, and data search, in specific use cases. Finally, the book explores open issues and outlines future research directions in the field of decentralized privacy preservation.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Basic Techniques for Decentralized Privacy Preservation.- Chapter 3. Privacy-Preserving Identity Management in Car Sharing.- Chapter 4. Privacy-Preserving Cross-Domain Authentication in Internet of Things.- Chapter 5. Privacy-Preserving Data Analytics in Usage-Based Insurance.- Chapter 6. Privacy-Preserving Data Search in Cloud Storage.- Chapter 7. Conclusions and Future Research Directions.

Dr. Cheng Huang is currently a Research Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo. He received his B.Eng. and M.S. degree in information security from Xidian University, China, in 2013 and 2016 respectively, and received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada in 2020. His research interests are in the areas of security and privacy in vehicular networks, cloud/edge computing, and blockchain. Dr. Huang has published over 60 papers on high-reputation journals and conferences, such as IEEE TDSC, JSAC, TVT, and TII, and has received several best paper awards from IEEE ICC, GLOBECOM, and ICCC. Dr. Huang serves as the associate editor for Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (Springer), the publicity chair of ICA3PP’22, PST’23, SustainCom’23, and the TPC members of many conferences, including IEEE ICC and GLOBECOM.

Dr. Xuemin (Sherman) Shen received the Ph.D.degree in electrical engineering from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, in 1990. He is a University Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. His research focuses on network resource management, wireless network security, Internet of Things, 5G and beyond, and vehicular networks. Dr. Shen is a registered Professional Engineer of Ontario, Canada, an Engineering Institute of Canada Fellow, a Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellow, a Royal Society of Canada Fellow, a Chinese Academy of Engineering Foreign Member, and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and Communications Society. Dr. Shen received “West Lake Friendship Award” from Zhejiang Province in 2023, President's Excellence in Research from the University of Waterloo in 2022,  the Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research from the Canadian Society of Information Theory (CSIT) in 2021, the R.A. Fessenden Award in 2019 from IE