Towards TTP-Free Lightweight Solution for Location Privacy Using Location-Based Anonymity Prediction

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Language

eng

Format of Original

5 p.

Publication Date

11-2011

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

Source Publication

Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Research in Applied Computation Symposium

Source ISSN

9781450310871

Original Item ID

doi: 10.1145/2103380.2103440

Abstract

Location-based services are becoming increasingly popular with the proliferation of location aware devices. It is not possible to access location-based services and preserve privacy at the same time when the user provides exact location information. Cloaking or obfuscating location data is the only way to protect location-privacy. To do that, most of the systems use third party location anonymizer. In this paper, we propose a novel location privacy obfuscation framework without any trusted third party (TTP). Most of the existing solutions attempt to satisfy k-anonymity. In this paper we present the problems of using fixed and user defined k. In order to solve the problems our proposed solution aims to meet probabilistic k-anonymity. Based on historic data expected number of users present in a place is predicted which is used as probabilistic anonymity level. Thus we eliminate the use of any TTP which results into improvement of query-processing time and provides fewer query results for the user to process minimizing the overall response time. Users' exact location information is not revealed in either communication or computation process.

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Published as part of the proceedings of the conference, the 2011 ACM Research in Applied Computation Symposium, 2011: 293-297. DOI.

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