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Towards reliable spatial information in LBSNs

Zhang, K and Jeng, W and Fofie, F and Pelechrinis, K and Krishnamurthy, P (2012) Towards reliable spatial information in LBSNs. In: UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED, 950 - 955. ISBN 9781450312240

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Abstract

The proliferation of Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs) has been rapid during the last year due to the number of novel services they can support. The main interaction between users in an LBSN is location sharing, which builds the spatial component of the system. The majority of the LBSNs make use of the notion of check-in, to enable users to volunteeringly share their whereabouts with their peers and the system. The flow of this spatial information is unidirectional and originates from the users' side. Given that currently there is no infrastructure in place for detecting fake checkins, the quality of the spatial information plane of an LBSN is solely based on the honesty of the users. In this paper, we seek to raise the awareness of the community for this problem, by identifying and discussing the effects of the presence of fake location information. We further present a preliminary design of a fake check-in detection scheme, based on location-proofs. Our initial simulation results show that if we do not consider the infrastructural constraints, locationproofs can form a viable technical solution. Copyright 2012 ACM.

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Item Type: Book Section
Status: Published
Creators/Authors:
CreatorsEmailPitt UsernameORCID
Zhang, K
Jeng, Wwej9@pitt.eduWEJ9
Fofie, F
Pelechrinis, Kkpele@pitt.eduKPELE0000-0002-6443-3935
Krishnamurthy, Pprashk@pitt.eduPRASHK
Date: 1 January 2012
Date Type: Publication
Access Restriction: No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately.
Journal or Publication Title: UbiComp'12 - Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Page Range: 950 - 955
Event Type: Conference
DOI or Unique Handle: 10.1145/2370216.2370426
Institution: University of Pittsburgh
Schools and Programs: School of Information Sciences > Telecommunications
Refereed: Yes
ISBN: 9781450312240
Date Deposited: 28 May 2013 16:06
Last Modified: 21 Jun 2020 00:55
URI: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/18814

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