Research In Location Privacy Protection Mechanism For Mobile Communication Environment

With the development of mobile network technology, location information is considered as an essential component for the provision of diversified value-added services. However, misuse of the user's location information would bring location privacy concern. Without protection schemes, extensive deployments of these technologies would threaten the user's security. And these concerns would block the implement of the technology. Nowadays, more and more security sensitive applications such as E-commerce, E-government and military communication are introduced. How to acquire users'location information legally and how to protect the information from eavesdropping and abuse become a hot research topic.Firstly, the paper simply discussed the location privacy mechanisms in GSM and 3G communication systems. The potential threats and attacks are analyzed as well as attack models. Location privacy issues in...