Location Privacy in Virtual Cell-Equipped Ultra-Dense Networks
Title | Location Privacy in Virtual Cell-Equipped Ultra-Dense Networks |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2018 |
Authors | Catania, E., Corte, A. La |
Conference Name | 2018 9th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS) |
Keywords | 5G mobile communication, 5G networks, access node densification, authentication, cell virtualization, cellular radio, composability, compositionality, data privacy, Handover, Human Behavior, location based services, location privacy, Location Privacy in Wireless Networks, location privacy threats, Metrics, mobile node densification, mobile nodes, next generation 5G cellular networks, privacy, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, tracked mobile nodes, ultra-dense network, virtual cell-equipped ultra-dense networks, virtual cells, virtual entities, virtualisation, virtualization privacy, wireless networks densification |
Abstract | Ultra-dense Networks are attracting significant interest due to their ability to provide the next generation 5G cellular networks with a high data rate, low delay, and seamless coverage. Several factors, such as interferences, energy constraints, and backhaul bottlenecks may limit wireless networks densification. In this paper, we study the effect of mobile node densification, access node densification, and their aggregation into virtual entities, referred to as virtual cells, on location privacy. Simulations show that the number of tracked mobile nodes might be statistically reduced up to 10 percent by implementing virtual cells. Moreover, experiments highlight that success of tracking attacks has an inverse relationship to the number of moving nodes. The present paper is a preliminary attempt to analyse the effectiveness of cell virtualization to mitigate location privacy threats in ultra-dense networks. |
URL | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8328700 |
DOI | 10.1109/NTMS.2018.8328700 |
Citation Key | catania_location_2018 |
- Metrics
- wireless networks densification
- virtualization privacy
- virtualisation
- virtual entities
- virtual cells
- virtual cell-equipped ultra-dense networks
- ultra-dense network
- tracked mobile nodes
- Resiliency
- resilience
- pubcrawl
- privacy
- next generation 5G cellular networks
- mobile nodes
- mobile node densification
- Location Privacy in Wireless Networks
- location privacy threats
- location privacy
- location based services
- Human behavior
- Handover
- data privacy
- composability
- cellular radio
- cell virtualization
- authentication
- access node densification
- 5G networks
- 5G mobile communication
- Compositionality