A strategy to balance location privacy and positioning accuracy.

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Title:	A strategy to balance location privacy and positioning accuracy.
Authors:	Li He, Junqing Liu, Peiyao Du
Source:	PLoS ONE, Vol 19, Iss 5, p e0304446 (2024)
Publisher Information:	Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2024.
Publication Year:	2024
Collection:	LCC:Medicine LCC:Science
Subject Terms:	Medicine, Science
More Details:	In privacy protection methods based on location services, constructing anonymous areas using location information shared by collaborative users is the main method. However, this collaborative process not only increases the risk of mobile users' location privacy being leaked, but also reduces positioning accuracy. In response to this problem, we propose a balancing strategy, which transforms the problem of protecting mobile users' location privacy and improving positioning accuracy into a balance issue between location privacy and positioning accuracy. The cooperation of mobile users with different collaborating users is then modeled as an objective optimization problem, and location privacy and positioning accuracy are evaluated separately to make different selection strategies. Finally, an optimization function is constructed to select the optimal selection strategies. Experimental results show that our proposed strategy can effectively achieve the balance between location privacy and positioning accuracy.
Document Type:	article
File Description:	electronic resource
Language:	English
ISSN:	1932-6203
Relation:	https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203
DOI:	10.1371/journal.pone.0304446
Access URL:	https://doaj.org/article/e0544c8c964243c6875a244a5c1055fd
Accession Number:	edsdoj.0544c8c964243c6875a244a5c1055fd
Database:	Directory of Open Access Journals
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ISSN:	19326203
DOI:	10.1371/journal.pone.0304446
Published in:	PLoS ONE
Language:	English