Ensuring Privacy Protection in Location-based Services through Integration of Cache and Dummies
Journal Title: International Journal of Advanced Computer Science & Applications - Year 2019, Vol 10, Issue 2
Abstract
Location-Based Services (LBS) have recently gained much attention from the research community due to the openness of wireless networks and the daily development of mobile devices. However, using LBS is not risk free. Location privacy protection is a major issue that concerns users. Since users utilize their real location to get the benefits of the LBS, this gives an attacker the chance to track their real location and collect sensitive and personal information about the user. If the attacker is the LBS server itself, privacy issues may reach dangerous levels because all information related to the user's activities are stored and accessible on the LBS server. In this paper, we propose a novel location privacy protection method called the Safe Cycle-Based Approach (SCBA). Specifically, the SCBA ensures location privacy by generating strong dummy locations that are far away from each other and belong to different sub-areas at the same time. This ensures robustness against advanced inference attacks such as location homogeneity attacks and semantic location attacks. To achieve location privacy protection, as well as high performance, we integrate the SCBA approach with a cache. The key performance enhancement is storing the responses of historical queries to answer future ones using a bloom filter-based search technique. Compared to well-known approaches, namely the ReDS, RaDS, and HMC approaches, experimental results showed that the proposed SCBA approach produces better outputs in terms of privacy protection level, robustness against inference attacks, communication cost, cache hit ratio, and response time.
Authors and Affiliations
Sara Alaradi, Nisreen Innab
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