Multi-Server Private Linear Computation with Joint and Individual Privacy Guarantees

08/20/2021
by   Nahid Esmati, et al.
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This paper considers the problem of multi-server Private Linear Computation, under the joint and individual privacy guarantees. In this problem, identical copies of a dataset comprised of K messages are stored on N non-colluding servers, and a user wishes to obtain one linear combination of a D-subset of messages belonging to the dataset. The goal is to design a scheme for performing the computation such that the total amount of information downloaded from the servers is minimized, while the privacy of the D messages required for the computation is protected. When joint privacy is required, the identities of all of these D messages must be kept private jointly, and when individual privacy is required, the identity of every one of these D messages must be kept private individually. In this work, we characterize the capacity, which is defined as the maximum achievable download rate, under both joint and individual privacy requirements. In particular, we show that when joint privacy is required the capacity is given by (1+1/N+…+1/N^K-D)^-1, and when individual privacy is required the capacity is given by (1+1/N+…+1/N^⌈ K/D⌉-1)^-1 assuming that D divides K, or K D divides D. Our converse proofs are based on reduction from two variants of the multi-server Private Information Retrieval problem in the presence of side information. Our achievability schemes build up on our recently proposed schemes for single-server Private Linear Transformation and the multi-server private computation scheme proposed by Sun and Jafar. Using similar proof techniques, we also establish upper and lower bounds on the capacity for the cases in which the user wants to compute L (potentially more than one) linear combinations.

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