Database Watermarking Algorithm Based on Decision Tree Shift Correction

Abstract

With the transmission and sharing of data in the Internet of Things (IoT), while bringing development to life and the economy, it also inevitably threatens the data copyright protection and authentication. Digital watermarking technology can provide an effective solution for copyright protection by embedding the watermark in the data to prove the copyright attribution. The existing methods of digital watermarking in IoT mainly target multimedia, without considering the copyright authentication in database data. Unlike multimedia information, the database does not focus on the subjective visual perception when using the data, but rather on the potential values unlocked from the data through algorithms such as data mining. Therefore, we propose a new database watermarking algorithm based on decision tree shift correction (DTSC), considering the data copyright authentication and usability when applying for data mining algorithm. The algorithm adjusts the watermarked data by the DTSC method and makes the watermarked decision tree identical to the original in the iteration process. It solves the problem of database data copyright authentication in IoT and ensures the usability of the data when used for decision tree model construction. From the simulation results, it can be seen that the proposed method ensures the usability of the data for the classification and regression tree decision tree algorithm while embedding the watermark in the database data, and the data distortion of the proposed method does not differ from that of the traditional watermarking algorithm.