The authors protect location privacy using mix zones--a new construction comparable to the mix nodes used for anonymous communications. They discuss two quantitative location privacy metrics they developed based on mix zones and demonstrate their use on a three-million-sample database of real location data from the Active Bat system.
Index Terms:
privacy, anonymity, pseudonymity, location, location-aware, Active Bat, mix network, mix zone
Citation:
Alastair R. Beresford, Frank Stajano, "Location Privacy in Pervasive Computing," IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 46-55, Jan.-Mar. 2003, doi:10.1109/MPRV.2003.1186725 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||