Privacy-preserving Targeted Advertising Scheme for IPTV using the Cloud

Leyli Javid Khayati, Erkay Savaş, Berkant Ustaoğlu, Cengiz Örencik

2012

Abstract

In this paper, we present a privacy-preserving scheme for targeted advertising via the Internet Protocol TV (IPTV). The scheme uses a communication model involving a collection of viewers/subscribers, a content provider (IPTV), an advertiser, and a cloud server. To provide high quality directed advertising service, the advertiser can utilize not only demographic information of subscribers, but also their watching habits. The latter includes watching history, preferences for IPTV content and watching rate, which are published on the cloud server periodically (e.g. weekly) along with anonymized demographics. Since the published data may leak sensitive information about subscribers, it is safeguarded using cryptographic techniques in addition to the anonymization of demographics. The techniques used by the advertiser, which can be manifested in its queries to the cloud, are considered (trade) secrets and therefore are protected as well. The cloud is oblivious to the published data, the queries of the advertiser as well as its own responses to these queries. Only a legitimate advertiser, endorsed with a so-called {\em trapdoor} by the IPTV, can query the cloud and utilize the query results. The performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated with experiments, which show that the scheme is suitable for practical usage.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Javid Khayati L., Savaş E., Ustaoğlu B. and Örencik C. (2012). Privacy-preserving Targeted Advertising Scheme for IPTV using the Cloud . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-24-2, pages 74-83. DOI: 10.5220/0004021900740083

in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt12,
author={Leyli Javid Khayati and Erkay Savaş and Berkant Ustaoğlu and Cengiz Örencik},
title={Privacy-preserving Targeted Advertising Scheme for IPTV using the Cloud},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={74-83},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004021900740083},
isbn={978-989-8565-24-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2012)
TI - Privacy-preserving Targeted Advertising Scheme for IPTV using the Cloud
SN - 978-989-8565-24-2
AU - Javid Khayati L.
AU - Savaş E.
AU - Ustaoğlu B.
AU - Örencik C.
PY - 2012
SP - 74
EP - 83
DO - 10.5220/0004021900740083