Optimal sporadic location privacy preserving systems in presence of bandwidth constraints
Michael Herrmann, Carmela Troncoso, Claudia Díaz, Bart Preneel · 2013
Various Location Privacy-Preserving Mechanisms (LPPMs) have been proposed in the literature to address the privacy risks derived from the exposure of user locations through the use of Location Based Services (LBSs). LPPMs obfuscate the locations disclosed to the LBS provider using a variety of strategies, which come at a cost either in terms of quality of service, or of resource consumption, or both. Shokri et al. propose an LPPM design framework that outputs optimal LPPM parameters considering a strategic adversary that knows the algorithm implemented by the LPPM, and has prior knowledge on the users' mobility profiles [23]. The framework allows users to set a constraint on the tolerable loss quality of service due to perturbations in the locations exposed by the LPPM. We observe that this constraint does not capture the fact that some LPPMs rely on techniques that augment the level of privacy by increasing resource consumption.