SPARSE: Privacy-Aware and Collusion Resistant Location Proof Generation and Verification

Reza Nosouhi, M; Yu, S; Grobler, M; Xiang, Y; Zhu, Z

SPARSE: Privacy-Aware and Collusion Resistant Location Proof Generation and Verification

Reza Nosouhi, M Yu, S

Grobler, M Xiang, Y Zhu, Z

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Citation:: 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2018 - Proceedings, 2018
Issue Date:: 2018-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Reza Nosouhi, M	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Yu, S https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4485-6743	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Grobler, M	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Xiang, Y	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Zhu, Z	en_US
dc.date.issued	2018-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2018 - Proceedings, 2018	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9781538647271	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/134660
dc.description.abstract	© 2018 IEEE. Recently, there has been an increase in the number of location-based services and applications. It is common for these applications to provide facilities or rewards for users who visit specific venues frequently. This creates the incentive for dishonest users to lie about their location and submit fake check-ins by changing their GPS data. To solve this issue, different distributed location proof schemes have been proposed to generate location proofs for mobile users. However, these schemes have some drawbacks: (1) they are vulnerable to either Prover-Prover or Prover-Witness collusions, (2) the location proof generation process is slow when users adopt a long private key, and (3) their implementation requires some hardware changes on mobile devices. To address these issues, we propose the Secure, Privacy-Aware and collusion Resistant poSition vErification (SPARSE) scheme to generate private location proofs for mobile users. SPARSE has a distributed architecture designed for ad-hoc scenarios in which mobile users generate location proofs for each other. Since we do not integrate any distance bounding protocol into SPARSE, it becomes an easy-to-implement scheme in which the location proof generation process is independent of the length of the users' private key. We provide a comprehensive security analysis and simulation which show that SPARSE provides privacy protection as well as security properties for users including integrity, unforgeability and non-transferability of the location proofs. Moreover, it achieves a highly reliable performance against collusions.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2018 - Proceedings	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1109/GLOCOM.2018.8647933	en_US
dc.title	SPARSE: Privacy-Aware and Collusion Resistant Location Proof Generation and Verification	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US

Abstract:

© 2018 IEEE. Recently, there has been an increase in the number of location-based services and applications. It is common for these applications to provide facilities or rewards for users who visit specific venues frequently. This creates the incentive for dishonest users to lie about their location and submit fake check-ins by changing their GPS data. To solve this issue, different distributed location proof schemes have been proposed to generate location proofs for mobile users. However, these schemes have some drawbacks: (1) they are vulnerable to either Prover-Prover or Prover-Witness collusions, (2) the location proof generation process is slow when users adopt a long private key, and (3) their implementation requires some hardware changes on mobile devices. To address these issues, we propose the Secure, Privacy-Aware and collusion Resistant poSition vErification (SPARSE) scheme to generate private location proofs for mobile users. SPARSE has a distributed architecture designed for ad-hoc scenarios in which mobile users generate location proofs for each other. Since we do not integrate any distance bounding protocol into SPARSE, it becomes an easy-to-implement scheme in which the location proof generation process is independent of the length of the users' private key. We provide a comprehensive security analysis and simulation which show that SPARSE provides privacy protection as well as security properties for users including integrity, unforgeability and non-transferability of the location proofs. Moreover, it achieves a highly reliable performance against collusions.

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