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User-Defined Privacy Location-Sharing System in Mobile Online Social Networks

User-Defined Privacy Location-Sharing System in Mobile Online Social Networks
User-Defined Privacy Location-Sharing System in Mobile Online Social Networks
With the fusion of social networks and location-based services, location sharing is one of the most important services in mobile online social networks (mOSNs). In location-sharing services, users have to provide their location information to service provider. However, location information is sensitive to users, which may cause a privacy-preserving issue needs to be solved. In the existing research, location-sharing services, such as friends’ query, does not consider the attacks from friends. In fact, a user may not trust all of his/her friends, so just a part of his/her friends will be allowed to obtain the user’s location information. In addition, users’ location privacy and social network privacy should be guaranteed. In order to solve the above problems, we propose a new architecture and a new scheme called User-Defined Privacy Location-Sharing (UDPLS) system for mOSNs. In our scheme, the query time is almost irrelevant to the number of friends. We also evaluate the performance and validate the correctness of our proposed algorithm through extensive simulations.
Location privacy, Mobile online social networks, Friend attacks, Anonymity, Location sharing
Sun, Gang
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Xie, Yuxia
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Liao, Dan
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Yu, Hongfang
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Chang, Victor
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Sun, Gang
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Xie, Yuxia
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Liao, Dan
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Yu, Hongfang
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Chang, Victor
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Sun, Gang, Xie, Yuxia, Liao, Dan, Yu, Hongfang and Chang, Victor (2016) User-Defined Privacy Location-Sharing System in Mobile Online Social Networks. Journal of Network and Computer Applications. (doi:10.1016/j.jnca.2016.11.024). (In Press)

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Abstract

With the fusion of social networks and location-based services, location sharing is one of the most important services in mobile online social networks (mOSNs). In location-sharing services, users have to provide their location information to service provider. However, location information is sensitive to users, which may cause a privacy-preserving issue needs to be solved. In the existing research, location-sharing services, such as friends’ query, does not consider the attacks from friends. In fact, a user may not trust all of his/her friends, so just a part of his/her friends will be allowed to obtain the user’s location information. In addition, users’ location privacy and social network privacy should be guaranteed. In order to solve the above problems, we propose a new architecture and a new scheme called User-Defined Privacy Location-Sharing (UDPLS) system for mOSNs. In our scheme, the query time is almost irrelevant to the number of friends. We also evaluate the performance and validate the correctness of our proposed algorithm through extensive simulations.

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Accepted/In Press date: 23 November 2016
Keywords: Location privacy, Mobile online social networks, Friend attacks, Anonymity, Location sharing
Organisations: Electronics & Computer Science, Electronic & Software Systems

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Local EPrints ID: 403447
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/403447
PURE UUID: 4c4a9aaa-7d78-4297-8571-d64588d4fb94

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Date deposited: 30 Nov 2016 15:02
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:43

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Author: Gang Sun
Author: Yuxia Xie
Author: Dan Liao
Author: Hongfang Yu
Author: Victor Chang

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