Paper Title:
Location Privacy Using User Anonymity and Dummy Locations
Author Name:
Prince Kumar Sahu, Saroj Kumar Chandra
Abstract:
This paper concentrates on location privacy, a particular type of information privacy that can be defined as the ability to prevent others from learning one’s current or past location. Here we are proposing a new technique that uses user anonymity and dummy locations for location privacy while using location aware application server. User communicates with the server through a trusted proxy server. It sends dummy locations to the application server with its original position. The user uses temporary pseudonyms that are changed frequently according to some algorithm. Whenever pseudonyms are changed by a user, dummy locations are chosen in a tricky fashion. That makes the task of tracing the user very difficult.
Keywords:
Location privacy, pseudonym, de-anonymize, dummy-Locations, location anonymity, trusted proxy.
Cite this article:
Prince Kumar Sahu, Saroj Kumar Chandra.Location Privacy Using User Anonymity and Dummy Locations. International Journal of Advanced Computer Research. 2012;2(5):61-64.