An effective revocable and traceable public auditing scheme for sensor-based urban cities.

The various data collected by urban sensor devices need a huge storage space. The cloud’s powerful calculation ability provides decent performance support and reduces the overhead on local storage. There are many kinds of data collected by urban sensor devices, and the same kind of sensors often need to upload large numbers of files together, which are usually private, so secure cloud storage in group members is essential. However, the cloud may try to modify or hide data for its own benefit, which requires the detection of a third-party auditor. This paper puts forward a new public audit scheme. Some changes have been made to the way of generating the private key, the parameters of key generation come from the feature information set of the same sensor. When the two information sets are close enough, the correctness of the authenticator generated by this file can be verified. When the sensor is revoked due to damage or loss, this scheme will effectively revoke and regenerate the private key with less overhead, thus preventing the leakage of data privacy. This also avoids the huge overhead caused by re-downloading data to generate authenticators in traditional schemes. In addition, our scheme is effective in tracking malicious members and reducing the computing overhead of the group. Finally, the experimental results show the effectiveness and practicality of the proposed scheme.