GPS privacy: Enabling proximity-based services while keeping GPS locations private

Athindran Ramesh Kumar, Liang Heng, Grace X. Gao

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Abstract

Location-based services have revolutionized people's everyday lives. Proximity-based services in particular, are commonly used to identify nearby friends and other landmarks. However, these services endanger the privacy of users as the location information is provided to the service provider. In this work, we propose a privacy protection scheme which leverages the low-level data used in GPS location estimation for privacy protection. The anonymous range vector of a user to visible satellites is instead provided to the service provider. The exact location of the user cannot be inferred from the anonymous range vector. An efficient algorithm for proximity detection using the anonymous range vector is presented. A proof of concept of the proximity detection scheme is illustrated using experiments with u-blox LEA- 6T receivers and Android phones.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication27th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation, ION GNSS 2014
PublisherInstitute of Navigation
Pages539-547
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781634399913
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event27th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation, ION GNSS 2014 - Tampa, United States
Duration: Sep 8 2014Sep 12 2014

Publication series

Name27th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation, ION GNSS 2014
Volume1

Other

Other27th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation, ION GNSS 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityTampa
Period9/8/149/12/14

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Software

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