scholarly journals Toward location privacy protection in Spatial crowdsourcing

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 155014771983056 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hang Ye ◽  
Kai Han ◽  
Chaoting Xu ◽  
Jingxin Xu ◽  
Fei Gui
Keyword(s):  
Privacy Protection ◽  
Location Privacy ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Relative Location ◽  
Mathematical Transformation ◽  
Real World Data ◽  
Spatial Crowdsourcing ◽  
Effectiveness And Efficiency ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Location Privacy Protection

Spatial crowdsourcing is an emerging outsourcing platform that allocates spatio-temporal tasks to a set of workers. Then, the worker moves to the specified locations to perform the tasks. However, it usually demands workers to upload their location information to the spatial crowdsourcing server, which unavoidably attracts attention to the privacy-preserving of the workers’ locations. In this article, we propose a novel framework that can protect the location privacy of the workers and the requesters when assigning tasks to workers. Our scheme is based on mathematical transformation to the location while providing privacy protection to workers and requesters. Moreover, to further preserve the relative location between workers, we generate a certain amount of noise to interfere the spatial crowdsourcing server. Experimental results on real-world data sets show the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed framework.

scholarly journals Privacy Preserving Spatio-Temporal Databases Based on k-Anonymity

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (SI1) ◽  
pp. SI82-SI94
Author(s):  
Anh Tuan Truong
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Privacy Protection ◽  
Location Privacy ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
Sensitive Information ◽  
User Privacy ◽  
Location Data ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Location Privacy Protection

The development of location-based services and mobile devices has lead to an increase in the location data. Through the data mining process, some valuable information can be discovered from location data. In the other words, an attacker may also extract some private (sensitive) information of the user and this may make threats against the user privacy. Therefore, location privacy protection becomes an important requirement to the success in the development of location-based services. In this paper, we propose a grid-based approach as well as an algorithm to guarantee k-anonymity, a well-known privacy protection approach, in a location database. The proposed approach considers only the information that has significance for the data mining process while ignoring the un-related information. The experiment results show the effectiveness of the proposed approach in comparison with the literature ones.

scholarly journals A collaborative scheduling strategy for IoV computing resources considering location privacy protection in mobile edge computing environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Meiyu Pang ◽  
Li Wang ◽  
Ningsheng Fang
Keyword(s):  
Privacy Protection ◽  
Location Privacy ◽  
Completion Rate ◽  
Task Completion ◽  
Mobile Edge Computing ◽  
Computing Environment ◽  
Internet Of Vehicles ◽  
Scheduling Strategy ◽  
Collaborative Scheduling ◽  
Location Privacy Protection

Abstract This paper proposes a collaborative scheduling strategy for computing resources of the Internet of vehicles considering location privacy protection in the mobile edge computing environment. Firstly, a multi area multi-user multi MEC server system is designed, in which a MEC server is deployed in each area, and multiple vehicle user equipment in an area can offload computing tasks to MEC servers in different areas by a wireless channel. Then, considering the mobility of users in Internet of vehicles, a vehicle distance prediction based on Kalman filter is proposed to improve the accuracy of vehicle-to-vehicle distance. However, when the vehicle performs the task, it needs to submit the real location, which causes the problem of the location privacy disclosure of vehicle users. Finally, the total cost of communication delay, location privacy of vehicles and energy consumption of all users is formulated as the optimization goal, which take into account the system state, action strategy, reward and punishment function and other factors. Moreover, Double DQN algorithm is used to solve the optimal scheduling strategy for minimizing the total consumption cost of system. Simulation results show that proposed algorithm has the highest computing task completion rate and converges to about 80% after 8000 iterations, and its performance is more ideal compared with other algorithms in terms of system energy cost and task completion rate, which demonstrates the effectiveness of our proposed scheduling strategy.

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