Protecting User Privacy Better with Query l-Diversity

Fuyu Liu and Kien A. Hua
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Fuyu Liu: University of Central Florida, USA
Kien A. Hua: University of Central Florida, USA

International Journal of Information Security and Privacy (IJISP), 2010, vol. 4, issue 2, 1-18

Abstract: This paper examines major privacy concerns in location-based services. Most user privacy techniques are based on cloaking, which achieves location k-anonymity. The key is to reduce location resolution by ensuring that each cloaking area reported to a service provider contains at least k mobile users. However, maintaining location k-anonymity alone is inadequate when the majority of the k mobile users are interested in the same query subject. In this paper, the authors address this problem by defining a novel concept called query l-diversity, which requires diversified queries submitted from the k users. The authors propose two techniques: Expand Cloak and Hilbert Cloak to achieve query l-diversity. To show the effectiveness of the proposed techniques, they compare the improved Interval Cloak technique through extensive simulation studies. The results show that these techniques better protect user privacy.

Date: 2010
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