Journal on Communications ›› 2016, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (12): 124-141.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2016279

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Research progress on location privacy-preserving techniques

Sheng WAN1,Feng-hua LI1,2,Ben NIU2(),Zhe SUN2,Hui LI1   

  1. 1 State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China
    2 State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100195, China
  • Online:2016-12-25 Published:2017-05-15
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China—Guangdong Provincial People's Government of the Joint Natural Science Fund Projects;The National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863Program);The National Natural Science Youth Science Foundation of China;The National Science and Technology Major Project of China

Abstract:

While providing plenty of convenience for users in daily life, the increasingly popular location-based ser-vice(LBS) posed a serious threat to users' privacy. The research about privacy-preserving techniques for LBS is becoming a hot spot, and there are a large number of research results. First, background information of privacy protection for LBS was introduced, including application scenarios of LBS, the LBS framework, objects of privacy protection and system architectures of privacy protection. Second, adversary models and metrics for privacy protection in LBS was discussed. Third, four types of privacy-preserving techniques based on generalization and obfuscation for LBS were analyzed and summarized thoroughly. Finally, the potential research directions for privacy-preserving techniques for LBS in the future were shown.

Key words: location-based service, privacy protection, location privacy, privacy metrics, adversary model

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