Overview of Smart Cities and Privacy Challenges

This book investigates decentralized trust-based privacy-preserving solutions in smart cities. The authors first present an overview of smart cities and privacy challenges and discuss the benefits of adopting decentralized trust models in achieving privacy preservation.

Fundamental Techniques

The authors then give a comprehensive review of fundamental decentralized techniques and privacy-preserving cryptographic techniques.

Decentralized Trust-Based Schemes

The next four chapters each detail a decentralized trust-based scheme, focusing respectively on privacy-preserving identity management, cross-domain authentication, data analytics, and data search, in specific use cases.

Future Directions

Finally, the book explores open issues and outlines future research directions in the field of decentralized privacy preservation.