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| Title: | Preventing location-based identity inference in anonymous spatial queries |
| Authors: | Kalnis, Panagiotis
Ghinita, Gabriel
Mouratidis, Kyriakos
Papadias, Dimitris |
| Keywords: | Cryptography
Data privacy
Mobile computing
Spatial databases |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| Citation: | IEEE transactions on knowledge and data engineering, v. 19, no. 12, December 2007, p. 1719-1733 |
| Abstract: | The increasing trend of embedding positioning capabilities (for example, GPS) in mobile devices facilitates the widespread use of location-based services. For such applications to succeed, privacy and confidentiality are essential. Existing privacy-enhancing techniques rely on encryption to safeguard communication channels, and on pseudonyms to protect user identities. Nevertheless, the query contents may disclose the physical location of the user. In this paper, we present a framework for preventing location-based identity inference of users who issue spatial queries to location-based services. We propose transformations based on the well-established K-anonymity concept to compute exact answers for range and nearest neighbor search, without revealing the query source. Our methods optimize the entire process of anonymizing the requests and processing the transformed spatial queries. Extensive experimental studies suggest that the proposed techniques are applicable to real-life scenarios with numerous mobile users. |
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| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1783.1/3232 |
| Appears in Collections: | CSE Journal/Magazine Articles
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