Hiding in the Mobile Crowd: Location Privacy

through Collaboration
Abstract
Location-aware smart phones support various location-based services (LBSs): users
query the LBS server and learn on the fly about their surroundings. owever! such
queries give away private information! enabling the LBS to trac" users. #e address
this problem by proposing a user-collaborative privacy-preserving approach for LBSs.
$ur solution does not require changing the LBS server architecture and does not
assume third party servers% yet! it significantly improves users& location privacy. 'he
gain stems from the collaboration of mobile devices: they "eep their conte(t
information in a buffer and pass it to others see"ing such information. 'hus! a user
remains hidden from the server! unless all the collaborative peers in the vicinity lac"
the sought information. #e evaluate our scheme against the Bayesian locali)ation
attac"s that allow for strong adversaries who can incorporate prior "nowledge in their
attac"s. #e develop a novel epidemic model to capture the! possibly time-dependent!
dynamics of information propagation among users. *sed in the Bayesian inference
framewor"! this model helps analy)e the effects of various parameters! such as users&
querying rates and the lifetime of conte(t information! on users& location privacy. 'he
results show that our scheme hides a high fraction of location-based queries! thus
significantly enhancing users& location privacy. $ur simulations with real mobility
traces corroborate our model-based findings. +inally! our implementation on mobile
platforms indicates that it is lightweight and the cost of collaboration is negligible.
Existing system
Location-aware smart phones support various location-based services (LBSs):
users query the LBS server and learn on the fly about their surroundings. owever!
such queries give away private information! enabling the LBS to trac" users. #e
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address this problem by proposing a user-collaborative privacy-preserving approach
for LBSs. $ur solution does not require changing the LBS server architecture and
does not assume third party servers% yet! it significantly improves users& location
privacy. 'he gain stems from the collaboration of mobile devices: they "eep their
conte(t information in a buffer and pass it to others see"ing such information. 'hus! a
user remains hidden from the server! unless all the collaborative peers in the vicinity
lac" the sought information. #e evaluate our scheme against the Bayesian locali)ation
attac"s that allow for strong adversaries who can incorporate prior "nowledge in their
attac"s.
Proposed System
#e develop a novel epidemic model to capture the! possibly time-dependent!
dynamics of information propagation among users. *sed in the Bayesian inference
framewor"! this model helps analy)e the effects of various parameters! such as users&
querying rates and the lifetime of conte(t information! on users& location privacy. 'he
results show that our scheme hides a high fraction of location-based queries! thus
significantly enhancing users& location privacy. $ur simulations with real mobility
traces corroborate our model-based findings. +inally! our implementation on mobile
platforms indicates that it is lightweight and the cost of collaboration is negligible.
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