A Privacy-Preserving Efficient Location-Sharing Scheme for Mobile Online Social Network Applications

Munmun Bhattacharya, Sandip Roy, Kamlesh Mistry, Hubert P. H. Shum and Samiran Chattopadhyay
IEEE Access, 2020

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A Privacy-Preserving Efficient Location-Sharing Scheme for Mobile Online Social Network Applications

Abstract

The rapid development of mobile internet technology and the better availability of GPS have made mobile online social networks (mOSNs) more popular than traditional online social networks (OSNs) over the last few years. They necessitate fundamental social operations such as establishing friend relationship, location sharing among friends, and providing location-based services. As a consequence, security and privacy issues demands the utmost importance to mOSNs users. The first stream of existing solutions adopts two different servers to store locations-based and social network-based information separately, thereby sustaining large storage and communication overhead. The second stream of solutions aims at integrating the social network server and the location-based server into a single entity. However, as these approaches exploit only one single server, they may face several performance issues related to server bottlenecks. Moreover, such schemes are found to be vulnerable to various active and passive security attacks. In this paper, we propose a privacy preserving, secure and efficient location sharing scheme for mOSNs, which shows both efficiency and flexibility in the location update, sharing, and query of social friends and social strangers. The security of the proposed scheme is validated using random oracle based formal security proof and Burrows-Abadi-Needham (BAN) logic based authentication proof, followed by informal security analysis. Additionally, we have used ProVerif 1.93 to verify the security of the system. The efficiency and practicability of the proposed scheme are demonstrated through experimental implementation and evaluation.

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@article{bhattacharya20privacy,
 author={Bhattacharya, Munmun and Roy, Sandip and Mistry, Kamlesh and Shum, Hubert P. H. and Chattopadhyay, Samiran},
 journal={IEEE Access},
 title={A Privacy-Preserving Efficient Location-Sharing Scheme for Mobile Online Social Network Applications},
 year={2020},
 pages={221330--221351},
 numpages={22},
 doi={10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3043621},
 issn={2169-3536},
 publisher={IEEE},
}

RIS

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Bhattacharya, Munmun
AU  - Roy, Sandip
AU  - Mistry, Kamlesh
AU  - Shum, Hubert P. H.
AU  - Chattopadhyay, Samiran
T2  - IEEE Access
TI  - A Privacy-Preserving Efficient Location-Sharing Scheme for Mobile Online Social Network Applications
PY  - 2020
SP  - 221330
EP  - 221351
DO  - 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3043621
SN  - 2169-3536
PB  - IEEE
ER  - 

Plain Text

Munmun Bhattacharya, Sandip Roy, Kamlesh Mistry, Hubert P. H. Shum and Samiran Chattopadhyay, "A Privacy-Preserving Efficient Location-Sharing Scheme for Mobile Online Social Network Applications," IEEE Access, pp. 221330-221351, IEEE, 2020.

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