Privacy-Preserving State Estimation with Crowd Sensors: An Information-Theoretic Respective

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17266v1
• Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2025 22:44:34 GMT
• Title: Privacy-Preserving State Estimation with Crowd Sensors: An Information-Theoretic Respective
• Authors: Farhad Farokhi,
• Abstract summary: We consider privacy-preserving state estimation for linear time-invariant dynamical systems with crowd sensors.<n>A Luenberger-like observer is used to fuse the measurements with the underlying model of the system to generate the state estimates.<n>Information leakage is measured via mutual information between the identity of the sensors and the state estimate conditioned on the actual state of the system.
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• Abstract: Privacy-preserving state estimation for linear time-invariant dynamical systems with crowd sensors is considered. At any time step, the estimator has access to measurements from a randomly selected sensor from a pool of sensors with pre-specified models and noise profiles. A Luenberger-like observer is used to fuse the measurements with the underlying model of the system to recursively generate the state estimates. An additive privacy-preserving noise is used to constrain information leakage. Information leakage is measured via mutual information between the identity of the sensors and the state estimate conditioned on the actual state of the system. This captures an omnipotent adversary that not only can access state estimates but can also gather direct high-quality state measurements. Any prescribed level of information leakage is shown to be achievable by appropriately selecting the variance of the privacy-preserving noise. Therefore, privacy-utility trade-off can be fine-tuned.

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