Privacy Preserving for Multiple Sensitive Attributes against Fingerprint Correlation Attack Satisfying c-Diversity

Table 12

Types used in HLPN for (c, k)-anonymization.

Types	Descriptions
T	Place holding integer and string type data
PID	An integer identifying patient id
	A set consists of dependent sensitive attributes
	An integer defines final calculated weights of
	An integer set containing sorted weight of SA in descending
	Maximum weight after adding external factor
C	Category id for MSA
BID	Bucket id used to connect GT and SBT
	An integer and string type quasi-identifiers for i^th end user
	Multiple sensitive fingerprint string values for i^th end user
	Initial MSF string values in a bucket for i^th end user
	Not correlated MSF string values in a bucket for i^th end user
	Correlated MSF string values in a bucket for i^th end user
	Refined MSF string values in a bucket for i^th end user