A New Distributed User-Demand-Driven Location Privacy Protection Scheme for Mobile Communication Network

With the development of mobile communication networks and intelligent terminals, recent years have witnessed a rapid popularization of location-based service (LBS). While obtaining convenient services, the exploitation of mass location data is inevitably leading to a serious concern about location p...

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Main Authors: Jin Wang, Hao Wu, Yudian Liu
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2015-10-01
Series:International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/743160
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description With the development of mobile communication networks and intelligent terminals, recent years have witnessed a rapid popularization of location-based service (LBS). While obtaining convenient services, the exploitation of mass location data is inevitably leading to a serious concern about location privacy security. Obviously, high quality of service (QoS) will result in poor location privacy protection, so that a trade-off is needed to fulfill users' individual demands for both sides. Although existing methods perform well in certain scenarios, few have considered the abovementioned balance problem. Therefore, by combining k -anonymity-based cloaking technique and obfuscation method, a new distributed user-demand-driven (DUDD) location privacy protection scheme is put forward in this paper. The basic idea is still to select a subcloaking area within the cloaking area generated by Location Anonymization Server. Moreover, by using the improved LBS system model, this paper constructs a distributed framework, in which location privacy protection is wholly occupied in server side and LBS provider is only dedicated to QoS-guarantee. In addition, normalized privacy demand and QoS metrics are given and a user-defined weight parameter is introduced to ensure location privacy security without decreasing QoS. The feasibility of the proposed method is proved through simulation.
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spelling doaj-art-596c94ece1f3434baa9ab1f473ffe1ed2025-08-20T02:05:35ZengWileyInternational Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks1550-14772015-10-011110.1155/2015/743160743160A New Distributed User-Demand-Driven Location Privacy Protection Scheme for Mobile Communication NetworkJin Wang0Hao Wu1Yudian Liu2 School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Shangyuancun 3, Haidian District, Beijing 100044, China School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Shangyuancun 3, Haidian District, Beijing 100044, China School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Shangyuancun 3, Haidian District, Beijing 100044, ChinaWith the development of mobile communication networks and intelligent terminals, recent years have witnessed a rapid popularization of location-based service (LBS). While obtaining convenient services, the exploitation of mass location data is inevitably leading to a serious concern about location privacy security. Obviously, high quality of service (QoS) will result in poor location privacy protection, so that a trade-off is needed to fulfill users' individual demands for both sides. Although existing methods perform well in certain scenarios, few have considered the abovementioned balance problem. Therefore, by combining k -anonymity-based cloaking technique and obfuscation method, a new distributed user-demand-driven (DUDD) location privacy protection scheme is put forward in this paper. The basic idea is still to select a subcloaking area within the cloaking area generated by Location Anonymization Server. Moreover, by using the improved LBS system model, this paper constructs a distributed framework, in which location privacy protection is wholly occupied in server side and LBS provider is only dedicated to QoS-guarantee. In addition, normalized privacy demand and QoS metrics are given and a user-defined weight parameter is introduced to ensure location privacy security without decreasing QoS. The feasibility of the proposed method is proved through simulation.https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/743160
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