Paper 2016/764
ANOTEL: Cellular Networks with Location Privacy (Extended Version)
Tim Dittler, Florian Tschorsch, Stefan Dietzel, and Björn Scheuermann
Abstract
Location management is a key component of cellular networks. From a privacy perspective, however, it is also a major weakness: location management empowers the network operator to track users. In today's public and scientific discussion, the centralized storage of location data is mostly taken as a fact, and users are expected to trust the network operator. ANOTEL presents a novel, clean-slate approach of location management in cellular networks that challenges this assumption. We developed a design that is able to route calls to users who move through cellular networks, without violating their location privacy. We evaluate our approach using simulations and a practical user tracking algorithm.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Publication info
- Preprint. MAJOR revision.
- Keywords
- location managementseparation of concernslocation privacy
- Contact author(s)
- tschorsch @ informatik hu-berlin de
- History
- 2016-08-10: received
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2016/764
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2016/764,
author = {Tim Dittler and Florian Tschorsch and Stefan Dietzel and Björn Scheuermann},
title = {{ANOTEL}: Cellular Networks with Location Privacy (Extended Version)},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2016/764},
year = {2016},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/764}
}
