Location-sharing protocol for privacy protection in mobile online social networks
Abstract Location-based services are becoming more and more popular in mobile online social networks (mOSNs) for smart cities, but users’ privacy also has aroused widespread concern, such as locations, friend sets and other private information. At present, many protocols have been proposed, but thes...
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| description | Abstract Location-based services are becoming more and more popular in mobile online social networks (mOSNs) for smart cities, but users’ privacy also has aroused widespread concern, such as locations, friend sets and other private information. At present, many protocols have been proposed, but these protocols are inefficient and ignore some security risks. In the paper, we present a new location-sharing protocol, which solves two issues by using symmetric/asymmetric encryption properly. We adopt the following methods to reduce the communication and computation costs: only setting up one location server; connecting social network server and location server directly instead of through cellular towers; avoiding broadcast encryption. We introduce dummy identities to protect users’ identity privacy, and prevent location server from inferring users’ activity tracks by updating dummy identities in time. The details of security and performance analysis with related protocols show that our protocol enjoys two advantages: (1) it’s more efficient than related protocols, which greatly reduces the computation and communication costs; (2) it satisfies all security goals; however, most previous protocols only meet some security goals. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b3a0890d043d43cf9da652a502058b542022-12-21T18:28:40ZengSpringerOpenEURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking1687-14992021-05-012021111410.1186/s13638-021-01999-zLocation-sharing protocol for privacy protection in mobile online social networksOu Ruan0Lixiao Zhang1Yuanyuan Zhang2School of Computers, Hubei University of TechnologySchool of Computers, Hubei University of TechnologySchool of Computers, Hubei University of TechnologyAbstract Location-based services are becoming more and more popular in mobile online social networks (mOSNs) for smart cities, but users’ privacy also has aroused widespread concern, such as locations, friend sets and other private information. At present, many protocols have been proposed, but these protocols are inefficient and ignore some security risks. In the paper, we present a new location-sharing protocol, which solves two issues by using symmetric/asymmetric encryption properly. We adopt the following methods to reduce the communication and computation costs: only setting up one location server; connecting social network server and location server directly instead of through cellular towers; avoiding broadcast encryption. We introduce dummy identities to protect users’ identity privacy, and prevent location server from inferring users’ activity tracks by updating dummy identities in time. The details of security and performance analysis with related protocols show that our protocol enjoys two advantages: (1) it’s more efficient than related protocols, which greatly reduces the computation and communication costs; (2) it satisfies all security goals; however, most previous protocols only meet some security goals.https://doi.org/10.1186/s13638-021-01999-zLocation privacyLocation sharingMobile online social networksSmart cities |
| spellingShingle | Ou Ruan Lixiao Zhang Yuanyuan Zhang Location-sharing protocol for privacy protection in mobile online social networks EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Location privacy Location sharing Mobile online social networks Smart cities |
| title | Location-sharing protocol for privacy protection in mobile online social networks |
| title_full | Location-sharing protocol for privacy protection in mobile online social networks |
| title_fullStr | Location-sharing protocol for privacy protection in mobile online social networks |
| title_full_unstemmed | Location-sharing protocol for privacy protection in mobile online social networks |
| title_short | Location-sharing protocol for privacy protection in mobile online social networks |
| title_sort | location sharing protocol for privacy protection in mobile online social networks |
| topic | Location privacy Location sharing Mobile online social networks Smart cities |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13638-021-01999-z |
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