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Preserving User Location Privacy for Location-Based Service

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Location privacy has been a great concern to users who need the location based service on networked devices such as mobile phones and personal computers. Location based service usually relies on a location server, which is commonly regarded as semi-trusted or honest-but-curious. To protect user privacy their location information must be protected against the location server. We propose a protocol which captures user location privacy, while the user can still receive the requested service from a service provider, and does not reveal the user’s exact location to the location server. Our approach offers the applicability to real-world applications.

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Acknowledgment

This work was supported by “Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities” of China (No.XDJK2016C108) and the youth fund of Southwest University (No. 20700907).

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  1. Department of Information Management, Rongchang Campus, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

    Xiaojuan Chen

  2. School of Computing and Information Technology, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia

    Xiaojuan Chen & Yi Mu

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  2. Deakin University, Burwood, Australia

    Yang Xiang

  3. Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Kuan-Ching Li

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Chen, X., Mu, Y. (2016). Preserving User Location Privacy for Location-Based Service. In: Huang, X., Xiang, Y., Li, KC. (eds) Green, Pervasive, and Cloud Computing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9663. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39077-2_19

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