Research Article

Reversible Fragile Watermarking Scheme for Relational Database Based on Prediction-Error Expansion

Table 1

Notations and parameters.

SymbolDescription

ΗNumber of tuples in the relation
ΓNumber of attributes in the relation
ti·Ajjth attribute of the ith tuple
ti·PkPrimary key of the ith tuple
hiHash value of the ith tuple’s primary key
HjHash value of the jth attribute
KsSecret key
VNumber of groups
µAverage number of tuples in a group
Gjjth group
EPrediction error
Expanded prediction error
WjWatermark embedded in attribute Aj