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Location-privacy evaluation within the extreme points privacy (epp) scheme for vanet users

The main purpose of designing vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) is to achieve safety by periodically broadcasting the vehicle's coordinates with a high precision. This advantage brings a threat represented in the possible tracking and identification of the vehicles. A possible solution is to use and change pseudonyms. However, even by changing pseudonyms, the vehicle could still be tracked if the adversary has a prior knowledge about the potential start and end points of a particular driver who has social interactions (e.g., with neighbors) which introduces the concept of vehicular social networks (VSNs). This article extends the authors previous work, namely: “EPP Extreme Points Privacy for Trips and Home Identification in Vehicular Social Networks,” which exploits the nature of the end points that are common between VSN users in order to create shared zones to anonymize them. The extension is represented by (a) the evaluation of the enjoyed location privacy of VSN users after quitting the district in addition to (b) detailing the used environment during the evaluation.

https://www.igi-global.com/article/location-privacy-evaluation-within-the-extreme-points-privacy-epp-scheme-for-vanet-users/241867

Messaoud Babaghayou

Messaoud Babaghayou

PhD in computer science (Location Privacy in IoV). PhD student (Energy Efficiency in Mobile Edge Computing) at Université Amar Telidji Laghouat.
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Kadri, C.B., Guerroudj, A., Hamlat, A. et al. Statistical analysis of remote sensing eco-environmental techniques under land use and land cover constraints: a case study of Blida Province, Algeria. Acta Geophys. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11600-025-01673-8 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11600-025-01673-8

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