H-LPS: a hybrid approach for user's location privacy in location-based services

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08241v2
• Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 02:34:20 GMT
• Title: H-LPS: a hybrid approach for user's location privacy in location-based services
• Authors: Sonia Sabir, Inayat Ali, Eraj Khan,
• Abstract summary: We have proposed a hybrid location privacy scheme (H-LPS) based on obfuscation and collaboration for protecting users' location privacy.<n>Our proposed scheme, H-LPS, provides a very high-level of privacy yet provides good accuracy for most of the users.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Applications providing location-based services (LBS) have gained much attention and importance with the notion of the internet of things (IoT). Users are utilizing LBS by providing their location information to third-party service providers. However, location data is very sensitive that can reveal user's private life to adversaries. The passive and pervasive data collection in IoT upsurges serious issues of location privacy. Privacy-preserving location-based services are a hot research topic. Many anonymization and obfuscation techniques have been proposed to overcome location privacy issues. In this paper, we have proposed a hybrid location privacy scheme (H-LPS), a hybrid scheme mainly based on obfuscation and collaboration for protecting users' location privacy while using location-based services. Obfuscation naturally degrades the quality of service but provides more privacy as compared to anonymization. Our proposed scheme, H-LPS, provides a very high-level of privacy yet provides good accuracy for most of the users. The privacy level and service accuracy of H-LPS are compared with state-of-the-art location privacy schemes and it is shown that H-LPS could be a candidate solution for preserving user location privacy in location-based services.

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