You are cordially invited to attend the PhD defense of Adrien Luxey that will be held November 29 at 9.30 am, Room Guernesey (ISTIC) and for a drink in Salle du Club des Professeurs (Building 1).
Jury members :
Romain Rouvoy, Professeur des Universités, Université de Lille
Vivien Quéma, Professeur des Universités, Grenoble INP
Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Directrice de recherche, CNRS Lyon
Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Directrice de recherche, Inria Rennes
Yérom-David Bromberg, Professeur des Universités, Univ Rennes, CNRS, Inria, IRISA
Title: E-squads: A novel paradigm to build privacy-preserving ubiquitous applications
Abstract:
The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) has proved to be dangerous for the people’s right to privacy: more and more connected appliances are sharing personal data about people’s daily lives to private parties beyond their control. Still, we believe that the IoT could just as well become a guardian of our privacy, would it escape the centralised cloud model. In this thesis, we explore a novel concept, the e-squad: to make one’s connected devices collaborate through gossip communication to build new privacy-preserving services. We show how an e-squad can privately build knowledge about their user and leverage this information to create predictive applications. We demonstrate that collaboration helps to overcome the end-devices’ poor availability and performance. Finally, we federate e-squads to build a robust anonymous file exchange service, proving their potential beyond the single-user scenario. We hope this manuscript inspires the advent of more humane and delightful technology.
