PROST : Privacy-Preserving and Truthful Online Double Auction for Spectrum Allocation

Spectrum auction is an effective way to redistribute scarce spectrum resources. However, most spectrum auction designs only target at economic robustness, while neglecting the inherent privacy leakage problem. Existing secure spectrum auction mechanisms fail to provide adequate security, and they al...

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Published inIEEE transactions on information forensics and security Vol. 14; no. 2; pp. 374 - 386
Main Authors Wang, Qian, Huang, Jing, Chen, Yanjiao, Wang, Cong, Xiao, Fu, Luo, Xiangyang
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.02.2019
Subjects
Cryptography
Economics
online auction
Privacy
privacy preservation
Protocols
Resource management
Spectrum allocation
truthfulness
Wireless sensor networks
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Summary:Spectrum auction is an effective way to redistribute scarce spectrum resources. However, most spectrum auction designs only target at economic robustness, while neglecting the inherent privacy leakage problem. Existing secure spectrum auction mechanisms fail to provide adequate security, and they all neglect the online fashion of spectrum request arrival. In this paper, for the first time, we propose a Privacy-pReserving and truthful Online double auction mechanism for Spectrum allocaTion in wireless networks, PROST. Compared with the state-of-the-art solutions, PROST provides a comprehensive and strong protection for users' sensitive information, especially for location privacy and time dynamics. PROST is constructed based on our carefully designed security building blocks, which support various arithmetics over encrypted real numbers, and they are also well applicable in other spectrum auctions. Besides, we improve on the existing online spectrum auction mechanisms by designing a novel privacy-preserving buyer grouping protocol for spectrum reuse. We not only theoretically prove that PROST can realize an all-round security against semi-honest adversaries but also extensively evaluate its performance. Experimental results validate that PROST achieves nice spectrum allocation efficiency with light computation and communication costs.
ISSN:1556-6013
1556-6021
DOI:10.1109/TIFS.2018.2850330