A Fine-Grained and Privacy-Preserving Query Scheme for Fog Computing-Enhanced Location-Based Service

Sensors

Fan Yin¹  Xue Yang¹  Xiaohu Tang¹ 

[1] The Information Security and National Computing Grid Laboratory, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China;

关键词: location-based services (LBS);    fog computing;    low-latency;    fine-grained;    privacy-preserving;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s17071611

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Location-based services (LBS), as one of the most popular location-awareness applications, has been further developed to achieve low-latency with the assistance of fog computing. However, privacy issues remain a research challenge in the context of fog computing. Therefore, in this paper, we present a fine-grained and privacy-preserving query scheme for fog computing-enhanced location-based services, hereafter referred to as FGPQ. In particular, mobile users can obtain the fine-grained searching result satisfying not only the given spatial range but also the searching content. Detailed privacy analysis shows that our proposed scheme indeed achieves the privacy preservation for the LBS provider and mobile users. In addition, extensive performance analyses and experiments demonstrate that the FGPQ scheme can significantly reduce computational and communication overheads and ensure the low-latency, which outperforms existing state-of-the art schemes. Hence, our proposed scheme is more suitable for real-time LBS searching.

【 授权许可】

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