11th EAI International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools

Research Article

Trading Optimality for Performance in Location Privacy

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.5-12-2017.2274579,
        author={Konstantinos  Chatzikokolakis and Serge  Haddad and Ali  Kassem and Catuscia  Palamidessi},
        title={Trading Optimality for Performance in Location Privacy},
        proceedings={11th EAI International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={VALUETOOLS},
        year={2018},
        month={8},
        keywords={performance},
        doi={10.4108/eai.5-12-2017.2274579}
    }
    
  • Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis
    Serge Haddad
    Ali Kassem
    Catuscia Palamidessi
    Year: 2018
    Trading Optimality for Performance in Location Privacy
    VALUETOOLS
    ACM
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.5-12-2017.2274579
Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis1, Serge Haddad2, Ali Kassem3,*, Catuscia Palamidessi3
  • 1: CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique
  • 2: ENS Cachan
  • 3: INRIA and Ecole Polytechnique
*Contact email: ali.kassem@inria.fr

Abstract

Location-Based Services (LBSs) provide invaluable assistance in our everyday activities, however they also pose serious threats to our privacy. Location data can, in fact, expose sensitive aspects of the user’s private life, see for instance [4]. There is, therefore, a growing interest in the development of mechanisms to protect location privacy during the use of LBSs. Most of the approaches in the literature are based on perturbing the user’s location, see, for instance, [1, 2, 5, 6]. Obviously, the perturbation must be done with care, in order to preserve the utility of the service.