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A spatial cloaking framework based on range search for nearest neighbor search

  • University of Cambridge

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Abstract

For nearest neighbor search, a user queries a server for nearby points of interest (POIs) with his/her location information. Our aim is to protect the user's sensitive information against adversaries including the location-based service itself. Most research efforts have elaborated on reasonable trade-offs between privacy and utility. We propose a framework based on range search query without a trusted middleware. We design a query processing algorithm for the minimum set of candidate POIs by computing the local Voronoi diagram relevant to the cloaked region. Contrary to common belief that cloaking approaches using range search incur expensive processing and communication cost, the experimental results show that the framework incurs reasonable processing and communication overhead even for large cloaked regions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationData Privacy Management and Autonomous Spontaneous Security - 4th International Workshop, DPM 2009, and Second International Workshop, SETOP 2009, Revised Selected Papers
Pages93-105
Number of pages13
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event4th International Workshop on Data Privacy Management, DPM 2009, and 2nd International Workshop on Autonomous and Spontaneous Security, SETOP 2009 - St. Malo, France
Duration: 24 Sep 200925 Sep 2009

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5939 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference4th International Workshop on Data Privacy Management, DPM 2009, and 2nd International Workshop on Autonomous and Spontaneous Security, SETOP 2009
Country/TerritoryFrance
CitySt. Malo
Period24/09/0925/09/09

Keywords

  • Location anonymity
  • Nearest neighbor search
  • Query privacy
  • Spatial cloaking
  • Voronoi diagram

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