PARTS – privacy-aware routing with transportation subgraphs

Abstract

To ensure privacy for route planning applications and other location based services (LBS), the service provider must be prevented from tracking a user’s path during navigation on the application level. However, the navigation functionality must be preserved. We introduce the algorithm PARTS to split route requests into route parts which will be submitted to an LBS in an unlinkable way. Equipped with the usage of dummy requests and time shifting, our approach can achieve better privacy. We will show that our algorithm protects privacy in the presence of a realistic adversary model while maintaining the service quality.