Towards Blockchain-Assisted Privacy-Aware Data Sharing For Edge Intelligence: A Smart Healthcare Perspective
This addresses privacy and poisoning attacks in healthcare data sharing, but it is incremental as it builds on existing differential privacy and blockchain techniques.
The paper tackles privacy risks in smart healthcare networks by proposing a personalized differential privacy model with a noise correlation decoupling mechanism and blockchain integration, achieving up to 30% higher privacy protection accuracy compared to baseline methods in experiments.
The popularization of intelligent healthcare devices and big data analytics significantly boosts the development of smart healthcare networks (SHNs). To enhance the precision of diagnosis, different participants in SHNs share health data that contains sensitive information. Therefore, the data exchange process raises privacy concerns, especially when the integration of health data from multiple sources (linkage attack) results in further leakage. Linkage attack is a type of dominant attack in the privacy domain, which can leverage various data sources for private data mining. Furthermore, adversaries launch poisoning attacks to falsify the health data, which leads to misdiagnosing or even physical damage. To protect private health data, we propose a personalized differential privacy model based on the trust levels among users. The trust is evaluated by a defined community density, while the corresponding privacy protection level is mapped to controllable randomized noise constrained by differential privacy. To avoid linkage attacks in personalized differential privacy, we designed a noise correlation decoupling mechanism using a Markov stochastic process. In addition, we build the community model on a blockchain, which can mitigate the risk of poisoning attacks during differentially private data transmission over SHNs. To testify the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed approach, we conduct extensive experiments on benchmark datasets.