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Journal Review - Comprehensive Review: Privacy Protection of User in Location-Aware Services of Mobile Cloud Computing

Journal Review: A Almusaylim, Z., & Jhanjhi, N. Z. (2020). Comprehensive review: Privacy protection of user in location-aware services of mobile cloud computing. Wireless Personal Communications, 111(1), 541-564.

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Journal Review - Comprehensive Review: Privacy Protection of User in Location-Aware Services of Mobile Cloud Computing

Journal Review: A Almusaylim, Z., & Jhanjhi, N. Z. (2020). Comprehensive review: Privacy protection of user in location-aware services of mobile cloud computing. Wireless Personal Communications, 111(1), 541-564.

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Journal Review

Iwap S Batan / NRP 6022221038


November 9, 2022

Title Comprehensive Review: Privacy Protection of User


in Location-Aware Services of Mobile Cloud Com-
puting
Journal Wireless Personal Communications (2020) 111:541-
564
Year Published 17 October 2019 (online)
Author Zahrah A. Almusaylim & NZ Jhanjhi

1 Introduction
Nowadays, mobile computing, or as known as mobile devices, is the most popular
thing that humans hold. The services and applications inside mobile devices
fulfill human desires. One of the most popular services used in mobile devices
is location-based services (LBS). It allows the devices to collect and provide
their current location. Out of the many advantages of the LBS, there is one
concern that needs to be focused on is the privacy issue. Unauthorized users
might misuse this service. This means as users increase, so do privacy-related
issues. Other than the privacy issues, some other flaws that mobile computing
(or mobile devices) still tries to cover are storage, bandwidth, battery life, etc.
which brings another mobile form to the surface, the Cloud Computing (CC).
CC is the most revolutionary in the IT sector by answering mobile computing
problems, such as storage, connectivity, distributed computing, sharing, etc.
CC resources can be shared amongst users and can be accessed anytime and
anywhere. It offered two main services: architecture and deployment model.
Three architectures that are offered are Infrastructure-, Platform-, and Software
as a service. Likewise, it can be deployed as a public, private, community, and
as a Hybrid cloud.
Because of the increment in resource use and cost in mobile devices of the high
computing tasks, it introduces a combined solution of those two technologies,
Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC). The main service MCC offers is that tasks
are processed in the cloud as the mobile device only shows the data requested by
users. This combination allows users to maximize the ability of an application
since the information is being computed in the cloud, thus mobile devices use
only low resources.
As MCC grows, it also faces challenges and issues. As stated, privacy became
the most important challenge. MCC outsourced personal data (such as location
information) processes on the server side, which cannot be controlled by users.
Location information is sent hence and forth from personal devices to public

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devices. This paper reviews the protection of the location-based privacy of the
users and suggests possible solutions that can be achieved.

2 Discussion
As stated above, MCC location-based services emerge with privacy concerns
where location information might be leaked and misused for an unauthorized
act. Eleven privacy protection schemes are being compared to find the pos-
sible solution for this issue. Comparison on the encryption type and privacy
mechanisms, such as access control, dynamic location support, multi-location
query, anonymity, and confidentiality are done and give different results for
different needs. Privacy-preserving localization algorithm uses homomorphic
encryption but does not support any location privacy mechanism. Four other
schemes (PPCCP, EPQ, LFAC, and MCSS) support only one mechanism. The
rest (FINE, MA, Geosecure, Privacy-preserving outsourced LBS system, and
Privacy-preserving multiuser LBS query scheme) supports more than one mech-
anism, but none support all. Different future works need to be researched from
all of those privacy protection schemes, starting from reducing computation
costs, and increasing trust on the server side, until giving users more control of
their privacy.
As an example of the condition above, two cases are given: Uber Taxi and Snap
Map for Snapchat. Uber Taxi requires passengers to enter their pick-up location
and destination. While riding the Uber, the GPS works in the background to
provide real-time location data to track their current location. Uber not only
tracks current location information but historical information as well. All of
this data could provide user habits, and if Uber is compromised, all of the un-
encrypted location data can be used to do an unauthorized act.
Another example is Snap Map for Snapchat. This feature allows users to share
their live location. This live location can be seen on the user’s friends on
Snapchat. It shows whether the user or their friend is riding a car and on
which road they are riding. One of the best services on this map is accuracy;
it can even show where the user lives. From all this information, people that
the user is friending might track wherever he is going and use this feature to
do a harmful act. Some flaws of the location-privacy scheme and problems of
the MCC can be concluded which is: (1) the high cost of the computation and
communication, (2) reliability and accuracy of the location, (3) long-term pro-
tection of the location, (4) trust level of honest, (5) multi-authority feature for
location sharing, and (6) multi-location query. This future work for the location
privacy issues can be studied to provide a better solution.

3 Conclusion
This paper delivers privacy issues on location-based services of MCC that need
to be concerned, where collecting and processing location information might
lead to personal harm events. In conclusion, this paper reviews location-based
services privacy concerns, comparative analysis between some privacy protec-
tion schemes, case studies, and up until suggestions for location-based privacy
concerns.

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