Paper Info
Title
PPLS: a privacy-preserving location-sharing scheme in mobile online social networks
Abstract
The recent proliferation of mobile devices has given rise to mobile online social networks (mOSNs), an emerging network paradigm that uses social networks as its main design element. As one of the most critical components in mOSNs, location sharing plays an important role in helping users share information and strengthen their social bonds, which however may compromise users’ privacy, including location information and social relationship details. To address these challenges, some solutions have been proposed. However, none of them considers the privacy of inter-user threshold distance, which effectively can be used to identify users, their friends, and location information, by malicious or undesired elements of the system. To overcome this limitation, we propose a secure distance comparison protocol. Furthermore, we present a privacy-preserving location-sharing scheme (PPLS), which allows users to build more complex access control policies. The safety of our scheme is validated by the security analysis and the experimental results demonstrate the efficiency of PPLS scheme.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1007/s11432-019-1508-6
Science China Information Sciences
Keywords
DocType
Volume
privacy-preservation, location-sharing, mobile online social networks
Journal
63
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
1674-733X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
23
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chang Xu110420.34
Xuan Xie2117.24
Liehuang Zhu363896.00
Kashif Sharif413221.39
Chuan Zhang533669.28
X. Du62320241.73
Mohsen Guizani76456557.44