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Grid-based cloaking area creation scheme supporting continuous location-based services

  • Hyunjo Lee*
  • , Byeong Seok Oh
  • , Hyeong Il Kim
  • , Jaewoo Chang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
    • Jeonbuk National University

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference paperpeer-review

    Abstract

    Recent development in wireless communication technology and mobile equipment like PDA, cellular phone and GPS is making location-based services (LBSs) more popular day by day. However, because, in the LBSs, users continuously send queries to LBS servers by using their exact locations, private information could be in danger. Therefore, a mechanism for users' privacy protection is required for the safe and comfortable use of LBSs. For this, in this paper, we propose a grid-based cloaking area creation scheme in order to support continuous queries in LBSs. Our scheme creates a cloaking area rapidly by using grid-based cell expansion to efficiently support the continuous LBSs. In addition, to generate a cloaking area which lowers the exposure probability of a mobile user to a minimum level, our scheme computes a privacy protection degree by granting weights to the mobile users. Finally, we show from a performance analysis that our cloaking scheme outperforms the existing cloaking schemes in terms of response time and privacy protection degree.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2012
    Pages537-543
    Number of pages7
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 2012
    Event27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2012 - Trento, Italy
    Duration: 2012.03.262012.03.30

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

    Conference

    Conference27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2012
    Country/TerritoryItaly
    CityTrento
    Period12.03.2612.03.30

    Keywords

    • cloaking scheme
    • continuous location-based services
    • privacy protection

    Quacquarelli Symonds(QS) Subject Topics

    • Computer Science & Information Systems

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