• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
    Monthly Online Journal (eISSN: 1976-7277)

A Survey of System Architectures, Privacy Preservation, and Main Research Challenges on Location-Based Services

Vol. 13, No. 6, June 29, 2019
10.3837/tiis.2019.06.024, Download Paper (Free):

Abstract

Location-based services (LBSs) have become popular in recent years due to the ever-increasing usage of smart mobile devices and mobile applications through networks. Although LBS application provides great benefits to mobile users, it also raises a sever privacy concern of users due to the untrusted service providers. In the lack of privacy enhancing mechanisms, most applications of the LBS may discourage the user’s acceptance of location services in general, and endanger the user’s privacy in particular. Therefore, it is a great interest to discuss on the recent privacy-preserving mechanisms in LBSs. Many existing location-privacy protection-mechanisms (LPPMs) make great efforts to increase the attacker’s uncertainty on the user’s actual whereabouts by generating a multiple of fake-locations together with user’s actual positions. In this survey, we present a study and analysis of existing LPPMs and the state-of-art privacy measures in service quality aware LBS applications. We first study the general architecture of privacy qualification system for LBSs by surveying the existing framework and outlining its main feature components. We then give an overview of the basic privacy requirements to be considered in the design and evaluation of LPPMs. Furthermore, we discuss the classification and countermeasure solutions of existing LPPMs for mitigating the current LBS privacy protection challenges. These classifications include anonymization, obfuscation, and an encryption-based technique, as well as the combination of them is called a hybrid mechanism. Finally, we discuss several open issues and research challenges based on the latest progresses for on-going LBS and location privacy research.


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[IEEE Style]
M. K. Tefera, X. Yang, Q. T. Sun, "A Survey of System Architectures, Privacy Preservation, and Main Research Challenges on Location-Based Services," KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 3199-3218, 2019. DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2019.06.024.

[ACM Style]
Mulugeta K. Tefera, Xiaolong Yang, and Qifu Tyler Sun. 2019. A Survey of System Architectures, Privacy Preservation, and Main Research Challenges on Location-Based Services. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, 13, 6, (2019), 3199-3218. DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2019.06.024.

[BibTeX Style]
@article{tiis:22138, title="A Survey of System Architectures, Privacy Preservation, and Main Research Challenges on Location-Based Services", author="Mulugeta K. Tefera and Xiaolong Yang and Qifu Tyler Sun and ", journal="KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems", DOI={10.3837/tiis.2019.06.024}, volume={13}, number={6}, year="2019", month={June}, pages={3199-3218}}