On Secure Consensus Information Fusion over Sensor Networks
With the current trend towards exploiting potential capabilities of sensor networks, distributed information fusion has received much attention as one of the most important solutions for many applications including distributed decision making, coordination and consensus. In this work we have
examined the problem from a novel point of view, challenging the fundamental assumption of mutual trust among the fusion parties. In quest for a method to make information fusion possible while preserving the mutual confidentiality and anonymity of the fused information even in case of collusion of the malicious nodes, we propose the Blind Information Fusion Framework (BIFF). In BIFF, which is a secure information fusion framework, the nodes are not aware of the actual information they are processing, yet converging to the intended result(s). We formulate BIFF according to the anonymization transform and discuss its robustness against collusions for privacy violation. As an example, two secure consensus averaging methods are formulated according to BIFF. Our focus is on consensus fusion schemes as they show more challenging properties, however, BIFF can be extended to non-consensus fusion schemes as well.