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An Efficient Privacy-Preserving Fingerprint-Based Localization Scheme Employing Oblivious Transfer

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The tremendous growth of WiFi fingerprint-based localization techniques has significantly facilitated localization services. The traditional techniques pose a threat to both client’s and server’s privacies, because it is likely to reveal sensitive information about the client and the server during providing localization services. Many existing works have proposed privacy preserving localization schemes based on homomorphic cryptographic systems. However, the state of the art homomorphic cryptographic systems turn out to bear a time-consuming process for recourse-constrained devices. Hence, preserving location privacy while guaranteeing efficiency and usability is still a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a privacy preserving indoor localization scheme employing oblivious transfer, called OTPri, to preserve the privacy of both clients and server in the process of localization in an efficient way. Our method enables a client to efficiently compute her location locally at client side with a small amount of additional overhead compared with the non-privacy-preserving scheme. Meanwhile, we conduct comprehensive experiments, including single-floor and multi-floor scenarios in our office building. The evaluation results demonstrate the efficiency improvement and overhead reduction of our proposed scheme compared with a classical privacy-preserving indoor localization scheme.

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Sun, M., Dong, X., Wu, F., Chen, G. (2018). An Efficient Privacy-Preserving Fingerprint-Based Localization Scheme Employing Oblivious Transfer. In: Zhu, L., Zhong, S. (eds) Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks. MSN 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 747. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8890-2_9

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