Sensing Authentication for Area, Target, and Device Privacy
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing integrated communication and sensing systems lack effective methods for authenticating sensing requests, particularly for sensing areas, targets, and devices, leading to potential unauthorized sensing and privacy breaches.
Innovation Solution
A sensing authentication method and apparatus that involve obtaining sensing authorization information for sensing areas, targets, and devices to determine whether to perform sensing requests, ensuring security and privacy by authenticating these elements before proceeding with the sensing operation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If sensing operations are performed without authentication, then sensing efficiency is improved, but security and privacy are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by performing authentication before the sensing operation. The network device authenticates the sensing request, sensing area, sensing target, and/or sensing device before allowing the sensing operation to proceed. This ensures that only authorized entities can perform sensing operations, thereby maintaining security and privacy while enabling efficient sensing when authentication passes.
2Reliability
If authentication is performed for sensing requests, then security and privacy are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by designing an authentication mechanism that can handle multiple authentication objects (sensing request, sensing area, sensing target, and sensing device) through a unified authentication framework. The network device performs authentication on these different objects using consistent principles and procedures, which simplifies the overall system architecture compared to implementing separate authentication mechanisms for each object type.
3Measurement precision
If multiple authentication objects are verified, then authorization accuracy is improved, but authentication time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies partial action by allowing the authentication mechanism to verify different authentication objects based on the specific sensing scenario and requirements. Not all authentication objects need to be verified in every case; the system can selectively authenticate the sensing request, sensing area, sensing target, and/or sensing device depending on the authorization policy and operational context. This selective verification maintains authorization accuracy while reducing unnecessary authentication time.
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AI summary
A sensing authentication method includes obtaining, by a first node, a sensing request and sensing authorization information corresponding to the sensing request, and performing, by the first node, sensing authentication based on the sensing authorization information. An authentication result of the sensing authentication is used to indicate whether to perform sensing requested by the sensing request. The sensing authorization information includes at least one of sensing area authorization information, sensing target authorization information, or sensing device authorization information.