Intelligent Semantic Location Privacy Protection Method for Location Based Services in Three-Dimensional Spaces

MIN Minghui; YANG Shuang; XU Junhuai; LI Xin; LI Shiyin; XIAO Liang; PENG Guojun

doi:10.11999/JEIT230708

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MIN Minghui, YANG Shuang, XU Junhuai, LI Xin, LI Shiyin, XIAO Liang, PENG Guojun. Intelligent Semantic Location Privacy Protection Method for Location Based Services in Three-Dimensional Spaces[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology. doi: 10.11999/JEIT230708

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MIN Minghui, YANG Shuang, XU Junhuai, LI Xin, LI Shiyin, XIAO Liang, PENG Guojun. Intelligent Semantic Location Privacy Protection Method for Location Based Services in Three-Dimensional Spaces[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology. doi: 10.11999/JEIT230708

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MIN Minghui, YANG Shuang, XU Junhuai, LI Xin, LI Shiyin, XIAO Liang, PENG Guojun. Intelligent Semantic Location Privacy Protection Method for Location Based Services in Three-Dimensional Spaces[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology. doi: 10.11999/JEIT230708

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Intelligent Semantic Location Privacy Protection Method for Location Based Services in Three-Dimensional Spaces

doi: 10.11999/JEIT230708

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School of Information and Control Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
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Key Laboratory of Aerospace Information Security and Trusted Computing, Ministry of Education, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China

Funds: The National Natural Science Foundation of China (62101557, 62371451, 61971366), Xuzhou Basic Research Plan Project-Young Scientific and Technological Talent Project (KC23022), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2022M713378), Fundamental Research Foundations for the Central Universities (2042022kf0021)

Received Date: 2023-07-15
Rev Recd Date: 2024-01-11

Available Online: 2024-01-25

Abstract

Abstract

An intelligent semantic location privacy protection method based on 3D Geo-Indistinguishability (3D-GI) is studied for the privacy leakage problem of sensitive semantic locations (such as medicine stores and bookstores) in 3D space location-based services, such as hospitals and shopping centers. Reinforcement Learning (RL) techniques are used in this paper to optimize user’s semantic location privacy protection policies dynamically. Specifically, a 3D semantic location perturbation mechanism is proposed based on the Policy Hill Climbing (PHC) algorithm, independent of specific environments and attack models. This mechanism induces attackers to infer less sensitive locations to reduce the exposure of sensitive semantic locations. To address the dimensional disaster problem of complex 3D space, a 3D semantic location perturbation mechanism based on the Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithm is further proposed. This mechanism captures the environment features using a neural network and optimizes the neural network parameter updates through the offline policy gradient method to improve the efficiency of semantic location perturbation policy selection. Experimental results show that the proposed mechanism improves both semantic location privacy protection and user service experience.
- Location Based Services (LBS),
- Three-Dimensional (3D) space,
- Semantic location privacy,
- Policy Hill Climbing (PHC),
- Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO)

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