A Location Privacy Preserving Scheme Based on Repartitioning Anonymous Region in Mobile Social Network

Applying the proliferated location-based services (LBS) to social networks has spawned mobile social network (MSN) services that it allows users to discover potential friends around them. In this paper, we focus on the problem of location privacy preserving in MSN. Particularly, we propose a location privacy preserving (RPAR) scheme via to repartition anonymous region where the central anonymous location minimizes the traffic between the anonymous server and the LBS server while protecting the privacy of the user location.