Abstract:
Recently, highly accurate positioning devices enable us to provide various types of location-based services. On the other hand, because such position data include deeply ...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
Recently, highly accurate positioning devices enable us to provide various types of location-based services. On the other hand, because such position data include deeply personal information, the protection of location privacy is one of the most significant problems in location-based services. In this paper, we propose an anonymous communication technique to protect the location privacy of the users of location-based services. In our proposed technique, such users generate several false position data (dummies) to send to service providers with the true position data of users. Because service providers cannot distinguish the true position data, user location privacy is protected. We also describe a cost reduction technique for communication between a client and a server. Moreover, we conducted performance study experiments on our proposed technique using practical position data. As a result of the experiments, we observed that our proposed technique protects the location privacy of people and can sufficiently reduce communication costs so that our communication techniques can be applied in practical location-based services.
Date of Conference: 11-14 July 2005
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 12 September 2005
Print ISBN:0-7803-9032-6