Title
A Mobile Terminal Based Trajectory Preserving Strategy for Continuous Querying LBS Users
Abstract
Location privacy is one critical factor concerned by mobile users of Location Based Service (LBS). Location privacy of mobile users includes two parts: current position information and trajectory information. The problem of position anonymity in Ad Hoc & sensor networks has been widely studied during past years. Nevertheless, most of existing privacy preserving solutions either need a third part server or require a large number of users. This paper proposes a simple and distributed trajectory preserving strategy, called Virtual Avatar (VAvatar). VAvater adopts a virtual path programming resolution, which does not need any third-part server (agent), to achieve trajectory information anonymity for continuous querying users of LBS. On the other hand, attackers may have strong ability to make mobility predictions by analyzing spatio-temporal relation of historical communication data. In order to prevent users from such threatening, VAvatar takes following two strategies: noisy location selecting strategy and query scheduling strategy to interrupt spacial and temporal relationships between position data. Theoretical analysis and experiments show that VAvatar provides efficient protection of trajectory privacy for mobile users with tolerable energy cost.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/DCOSS.2012.33
DCOSS
Keywords
Field
DocType
location privacy,position anonymity,continuous querying lbs users,trajectory preserving,current position information,mobile user,mobile users,trajectory privacy,mobility management (mobile radio),trajectory information,noisy location,position data,trajectory information anonymity,mobile terminal,location based service,virtual path planning,mobile terminal based trajectory preserving strategy,critical factor,virtual avatar,query scheduling strategy,energy cost,trajectory preserving strategy,query processing,sensor network,privacy,servers,trajectory,mobile communication,noise measurement
Interrupt,Computer science,Scheduling (computing),Server,Computer network,Location-based service,Anonymity,Wireless sensor network,Mobile telephony,Trajectory,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-1693-4
7
0.50
References 
Authors
15
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yunxia Feng1253.55
Peng Liu223915.80
Jianhui Zhang3141.67