A Privacy-Preserving Efficient Location-Sharing Scheme for Mobile Online Social Network Applications
The rapid development of mobile internet technology and the better availability of GPS have made mobile online social networks (mOSNs) more popular than traditional online social networks (OSNs) over the last few years. They necessitate fundamental social operations such as establishing friend relat...
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| author | Munmun Bhattacharya Sandip Roy Kamlesh Mistry Hubert P. H. Shum Samiran Chattopadhyay |
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| description | The rapid development of mobile internet technology and the better availability of GPS have made mobile online social networks (mOSNs) more popular than traditional online social networks (OSNs) over the last few years. They necessitate fundamental social operations such as establishing friend relationship, location sharing among friends, and providing location-based services. As a consequence, security and privacy issues demands the utmost importance to mOSNs users. The first stream of existing solutions adopts two different servers to store locations-based and social network-based information separately, thereby sustaining large storage and communication overhead. The second stream of solutions aims at integrating the social network server and the location-based server into a single entity. However, as these approaches exploit only one single server, they may face several performance issues related to server bottlenecks. Moreover, such schemes are found to be vulnerable to various active and passive security attacks. In this paper, we propose a privacy preserving, secure and efficient location sharing scheme for mOSNs, which shows both efficiency and flexibility in the location update, sharing, and query of social friends and social strangers. The security of the proposed scheme is validated using random oracle based formal security proof and Burrows-Abadi-Needham (BAN) logic based authentication proof, followed by informal security analysis. Additionally, we have used ProVerif 1.93 to verify the security of the system. The efficiency and practicability of the proposed scheme are demonstrated through experimental implementation and evaluation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-92bb61c4afd741309f757750aa376b462022-12-21T22:02:28ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362020-01-01822133022135110.1109/ACCESS.2020.30436219288801A Privacy-Preserving Efficient Location-Sharing Scheme for Mobile Online Social Network ApplicationsMunmun Bhattacharya0Sandip Roy1Kamlesh Mistry2Hubert P. H. Shum3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5651-6039Samiran Chattopadhyay4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8929-9605Department of Information Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, IndiaDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Asansol Engineering College, Asansol, IndiaDepartment of Computer and Information Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.Department of Computer Science, Durham University, Durham, U.K.Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.The rapid development of mobile internet technology and the better availability of GPS have made mobile online social networks (mOSNs) more popular than traditional online social networks (OSNs) over the last few years. They necessitate fundamental social operations such as establishing friend relationship, location sharing among friends, and providing location-based services. As a consequence, security and privacy issues demands the utmost importance to mOSNs users. The first stream of existing solutions adopts two different servers to store locations-based and social network-based information separately, thereby sustaining large storage and communication overhead. The second stream of solutions aims at integrating the social network server and the location-based server into a single entity. However, as these approaches exploit only one single server, they may face several performance issues related to server bottlenecks. Moreover, such schemes are found to be vulnerable to various active and passive security attacks. In this paper, we propose a privacy preserving, secure and efficient location sharing scheme for mOSNs, which shows both efficiency and flexibility in the location update, sharing, and query of social friends and social strangers. The security of the proposed scheme is validated using random oracle based formal security proof and Burrows-Abadi-Needham (BAN) logic based authentication proof, followed by informal security analysis. Additionally, we have used ProVerif 1.93 to verify the security of the system. The efficiency and practicability of the proposed scheme are demonstrated through experimental implementation and evaluation.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9288801/Mobile online social networksprivacylocation sharing and queryBAN logicrandom oracle |
| spellingShingle | Munmun Bhattacharya Sandip Roy Kamlesh Mistry Hubert P. H. Shum Samiran Chattopadhyay A Privacy-Preserving Efficient Location-Sharing Scheme for Mobile Online Social Network Applications IEEE Access Mobile online social networks privacy location sharing and query BAN logic random oracle |
| title | A Privacy-Preserving Efficient Location-Sharing Scheme for Mobile Online Social Network Applications |
| title_full | A Privacy-Preserving Efficient Location-Sharing Scheme for Mobile Online Social Network Applications |
| title_fullStr | A Privacy-Preserving Efficient Location-Sharing Scheme for Mobile Online Social Network Applications |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Privacy-Preserving Efficient Location-Sharing Scheme for Mobile Online Social Network Applications |
| title_short | A Privacy-Preserving Efficient Location-Sharing Scheme for Mobile Online Social Network Applications |
| title_sort | privacy preserving efficient location sharing scheme for mobile online social network applications |
| topic | Mobile online social networks privacy location sharing and query BAN logic random oracle |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9288801/ |
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