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Shortest Path Computation with No Information Leakage
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment: 38th VLDB 2012, August 27-31, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Kyriakos MOURATIDIS, Singapore Management University
  • Man Lung YIU, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
8-2012
Abstract

Shortest path computation is one of the most common queries in location-based services (LBSs). Although particularly useful, such queries raise serious privacy concerns. Exposing to a (potentially untrusted) LBS the client’s position and her destination may reveal personal information, such as social habits, health condition, shopping preferences, lifestyle choices, etc. The only existing method for privacy-preserving shortest path computation follows the obfuscation paradigm; it prevents the LBS from inferring the source and destination of the query with a probability higher than a threshold. This implies, however, that the LBS still deduces some information (albeit not exact) about the client’s location and her destination. In this paper we aim at strong privacy, where the adversary learns nothing about the shortest path query. We achieve this via established PIR techniques, which we treat as black-box building blocks. Experiments on real, large-scale road networks verify the efficiency and practicality of our schemes.

Keywords
  • Black boxes,
  • Building blockes,
  • Health condition,
  • Information leakage,
  • Lifestyle choices,
  • Personal information,
  • Privacy concerns,
  • Privacy preserving,
  • Private information retrieval,
  • Road network,
  • Shortest path,
  • Shortest path computations
Identifier
10.14778/2212351.2212352
Publisher
VLDB Endowment
City or Country
New York
Copyright Owner and License
LARC
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International
Additional URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.14778/2212351.2212352
Citation Information
Kyriakos MOURATIDIS and Man Lung YIU. "Shortest Path Computation with No Information Leakage" Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment: 38th VLDB 2012, August 27-31, Istanbul, Turkey Vol. 5 (2012) p. 692 - 703
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kyriakos_mouratidis/37/