• Spatial Information Research
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.57-66
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• 2012

Recent development in wireless communication technology like GPS as well as mobile equipments like PDA and cellular phone makes location-based services (LBSs) popular. However, because users request a query to LBS servers by using their exact locations while moving on the road network, users' privacy may not be protected in the LBSs. Therefore, a mechanism for users' privacy protection is required for the safe and comfortable use of LBSs by mobile users. For this, we, in this paper, propose a road network distance based cloaking scheme supporting user privacy protection in location-based services. The proposed scheme creates a cloaking area by considering road network distance, in order to support the efficient and safe LBSs on the road network. Finally, we show from our performance analysis that our cloaking scheme outperforms the existing cloaking scheme in terms of cloaking area and service time.

• Proceedings of the Korean Association of Geographic Inforamtion Studies Conference
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.155-163
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• 2010

최근 PDA, 휴대폰과 같은 모바일 기기 및 GPS와 같은 무선 통신 기술의 발달로 인하여 위치 기반 서비스의 이용이 확산되었다. 하지만 이러한 서비스는 사용자가 도로 네트워크에서 이동하면서 자신의 위치정보를 통해 LBS 서버에 질의를 요청하기 때문에, 심각한 개인 정보 누출의 위협이 될 수 있다. 따라서 모바일 사용자의 안전하고 편리한 위치기반 서비스 사용을 위한 개인 정보 보호 방법이 필요하다. 이를 위해 본 논문에서는 도로 네트워크 거리를 고려한 사용자 정보 보호를 지원하는 cloaking 영역 설정 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 도로 네트워크에서 효율적이고 안전한 위치기반 서비스를 지원하기 위하여, 도로 네트워크의 거리를 고려하여 cloaking 영역을 설정한다. 마지막으로 성능평가를 통해서 제안하는 기법이 cloaking 영역 및 서비스 시간 측면에서 기존 연구보다 우수함을 보인다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.47-57
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• 2013

Location privacy has been a serious concern for mobile users who use location-based services to acquire geographical location continuously. Spatial cloaking technique is a well-known privacy preserving method, which blurs an exact user location into a cloaked area to meet privacy requirements. However, cloaking for continuous moving object suffers from cloaked area size problem as it is unlikely for all objects travel in the same direction. In this paper, we propose a grid-based privacy preservation method with an improved Earth Mover's Distance(EMD) metric weight update scheme for semantic cloaking. We also define a representative cloaking area which protects continuous location privacy for moving users. Experimental implementation and evaluation exhibit that our proposed method renders good efficiency and scalability in cloaking processing time and area size control. We also show that our proposed method outperforms the existing method by successfully protects location privacy of continuous moving objects against various adversaries.