A Secure Clustering Algorithm for Distributed Data Streams

We present a distributed privacy-preserving protocol for the clustering of data streams. The participants of the se- cure protocol learn cluster centers only on completion of the protocol. Our protocol does not reveal intermediate candidate cluster centers. It is also efficient in terms of communication. The protocol is based on a new memory- efficient clustering algorithm for data streams. Our experi- ments show that, on average, the accuracy of this algorithm is better than that of the well known k-means algorithm, and compares well with BIRCH, but has far smaller mem- ory requirements.