{"id":"https://openalex.org/W4409326032","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tifs.2025.3558593","title":"Revisiting Location Privacy in MEC-Enabled Computation Offloading","display_name":"Revisiting Location Privacy in MEC-Enabled Computation Offloading","publication_year":2025,"publication_date":"2025-01-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W4409326032","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tifs.2025.3558593"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1109/tifs.2025.3558593","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tifs.2025.3558593","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S61310614","display_name":"IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security","issn_l":"1556-6013","issn":["1556-6013","1556-6021"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310319808","host_organization_name":"Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310319808"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security","raw_type":"journal-article"},"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5031924428","display_name":"Jingyi Li","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4978-8607"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I157773358","display_name":"Sun Yat-sen University","ror":"https://ror.org/0064kty71","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I157773358"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Jingyi Li","raw_affiliation_strings":["School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China","School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yatsen University, Guangzhou, China"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4978-8607","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I157773358"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yatsen University, Guangzhou, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I157773358"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5012988500","display_name":"Wenzhong Ou","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I157773358","display_name":"Sun Yat-sen University","ror":"https://ror.org/0064kty71","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I157773358"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Wenzhong Ou","raw_affiliation_strings":["School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China","School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yatsen University, Guangzhou, China"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I157773358"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yatsen University, Guangzhou, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I157773358"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5106355629","display_name":"Bei Ouyang","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4408-2832"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I157773358","display_name":"Sun Yat-sen University","ror":"https://ror.org/0064kty71","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I157773358"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Bei Ouyang","raw_affiliation_strings":["School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China","School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yatsen University, Guangzhou, China"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4408-2832","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I157773358"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yatsen University, Guangzhou, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I157773358"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5069427601","display_name":"Shengyuan Ye","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8867-0655"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I157773358","display_name":"Sun Yat-sen University","ror":"https://ror.org/0064kty71","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I157773358"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Shengyuan Ye","raw_affiliation_strings":["School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China","School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yatsen University, Guangzhou, China"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8867-0655","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I157773358"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yatsen University, Guangzhou, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I157773358"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5055161955","display_name":"Liekang Zeng","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4800-8768"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I177725633","display_name":"Chinese University of Hong Kong","ror":"https://ror.org/00t33hh48","country_code":"HK","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I177725633"]}],"countries":["HK"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Liekang Zeng","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Information Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, China","The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4800-8768","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Information Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I177725633"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I177725633"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5069716714","display_name":"Lin Chen","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7943-3172"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I49835588","display_name":"Macao Polytechnic University","ror":"https://ror.org/02sf5td35","country_code":"MO","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I49835588"]}],"countries":["MO"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Lin Chen","raw_affiliation_strings":["Engineering Research Centre of Applied Technology on Machine Translation and Artificial Intelligence, Macao Polytechnic University, Macau, SAR, China","Engineering Research Centre of Applied Technology on Machine Translation and Artificial Intelligence, Macao Polytechnic University, Macao SAR, China"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7943-3172","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Engineering Research Centre of Applied Technology on Machine Translation and Artificial Intelligence, Macao Polytechnic University, Macau, SAR, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I49835588"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Engineering Research Centre of Applied Technology on Machine Translation and Artificial Intelligence, Macao Polytechnic University, Macao SAR, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I49835588"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5100385692","display_name":"Xu Chen","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9943-6020"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I157773358","display_name":"Sun Yat-sen University","ror":"https://ror.org/0064kty71","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I157773358"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Xu Chen","raw_affiliation_strings":["School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China","School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yatsen University, Guangzhou, China"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9943-6020","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I157773358"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yatsen University, Guangzhou, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I157773358"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":3,"institutions_distinct_count":3,"corresponding_author_ids":[],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":6.6877,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":10,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.96782227,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":98,"max":99},"biblio":{"volume":"20","issue":null,"first_page":"4396","last_page":"4407"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10273","display_name":"IoT and Edge/Fog Computing","score":0.9904000163078308,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1705","display_name":"Computer Networks and Communications"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10273","display_name":"IoT and Edge/Fog Computing","score":0.9904000163078308,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1705","display_name":"Computer Networks and Communications"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10237","display_name":"Cryptography and Data Security","score":0.9821000099182129,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1702","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10764","display_name":"Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data","score":0.9807999730110168,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1702","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-science","display_name":"Computer science","score":0.7892556190490723},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computation-offloading","display_name":"Computation offloading","score":0.5035831332206726},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/information-privacy","display_name":"Information privacy","score":0.4794444143772125},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-security","display_name":"Computer security","score":0.4288588762283325},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-network","display_name":"Computer network","score":0.33291757106781006},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/internet-privacy","display_name":"Internet privacy","score":0.33200111985206604},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/internet-of-things","display_name":"Internet of Things","score":0.26254522800445557},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/edge-computing","display_name":"Edge computing","score":0.20144876837730408}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.7892556190490723},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2781041963","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18348618","display_name":"Computation offloading","level":4,"score":0.5035831332206726},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C123201435","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q456632","display_name":"Information privacy","level":2,"score":0.4794444143772125},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C38652104","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3510521","display_name":"Computer security","level":1,"score":0.4288588762283325},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C31258907","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1301371","display_name":"Computer network","level":1,"score":0.33291757106781006},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C108827166","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q175975","display_name":"Internet privacy","level":1,"score":0.33200111985206604},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C81860439","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q251212","display_name":"Internet of Things","level":2,"score":0.26254522800445557},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2778456923","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5337692","display_name":"Edge computing","level":3,"score":0.20144876837730408}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1109/tifs.2025.3558593","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tifs.2025.3558593","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S61310614","display_name":"IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security","issn_l":"1556-6013","issn":["1556-6013","1556-6021"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310319808","host_organization_name":"Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310319808"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security","raw_type":"journal-article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[],"awards":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/G4809022629","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"2022A0505050028","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320324202","funder_display_name":"Guangdong Science and Technology Department"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/G6346705237","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"62172455","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320321001","funder_display_name":"National Natural Science Foundation of China"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/G6719889613","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"2023B1515120058","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320337111","funder_display_name":"Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/G860287932","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"42222106","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320321001","funder_display_name":"National Natural Science Foundation of China"}],"funders":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320321001","display_name":"National Natural Science Foundation of China","ror":"https://ror.org/01h0zpd94"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320324202","display_name":"Guangdong Science and Technology Department","ror":"https://ror.org/00tjzgn92"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320337111","display_name":"Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province","ror":null}],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":false,"pdf":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":30,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W889496518","https://openalex.org/W1548435287","https://openalex.org/W2027595342","https://openalex.org/W2114296561","https://openalex.org/W2195423816","https://openalex.org/W2416799949","https://openalex.org/W2568772110","https://openalex.org/W2594560857","https://openalex.org/W2783988488","https://openalex.org/W2895879715","https://openalex.org/W2899071560","https://openalex.org/W2903874029","https://openalex.org/W2912717503","https://openalex.org/W2969388461","https://openalex.org/W2994787692","https://openalex.org/W3027480547","https://openalex.org/W3035965352","https://openalex.org/W3167877303","https://openalex.org/W3170112077","https://openalex.org/W3174997142","https://openalex.org/W4283207940","https://openalex.org/W4285130686","https://openalex.org/W4306885655","https://openalex.org/W4323891867","https://openalex.org/W4381621955","https://openalex.org/W4391935952","https://openalex.org/W4392061641","https://openalex.org/W4392153455","https://openalex.org/W6631190155","https://openalex.org/W6857279128"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W2584827882","https://openalex.org/W3195097297","https://openalex.org/W4225340788","https://openalex.org/W3038106605","https://openalex.org/W2513267613","https://openalex.org/W3049084372","https://openalex.org/W2528109871","https://openalex.org/W2940702331","https://openalex.org/W2905822832","https://openalex.org/W2240244939"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Mobile":[0],"Edge":[1],"Computing":[2],"(MEC)":[3],"revolutionizes":[4],"real-time":[5],"applications":[6],"by":[7],"extending":[8],"cloud":[9],"capabilities":[10],"to":[11,40,80,86,110,131],"network":[12],"edges,":[13],"enabling":[14],"efficient":[15],"computation":[16],"offloading":[17,30],"from":[18],"mobile":[19],"devices.":[20],"In":[21],"recent":[22],"years,":[23],"the":[24,35,49,59,82,91,111],"location":[25],"privacy":[26,51,123,153],"concern":[27],"within":[28],"MEC":[29],"has":[31,142],"been":[32],"recognized,":[33],"prompting":[34],"proposal":[36],"of":[37,61],"various":[38],"methodologies":[39,63],"mitigate":[41],"this":[42,45],"concern.":[43],"However,":[44],"paper":[46],"demonstrates":[47],"that":[48,140],"prevailing":[50],"protection":[52,93,120],"methods":[53],"exhibit":[54],"vulnerabilities.":[55],"First,":[56],"we":[57,72,100,127],"analyze":[58],"shortcomings":[60],"current":[62],"through":[64],"both":[65],"system":[66],"modeling":[67],"and":[68,118,134,146,154],"evaluation":[69],"metrics.":[70],"Then,":[71],"introduce":[73],"a":[74,149],"Learning-based":[75],"Trajectory":[76],"Reconstruction":[77],"Attack":[78],"(LTRA)":[79],"expose":[81],"weaknesses,":[83],"achieving":[84],"up":[85],"91.2%":[87],"reconstruction":[88],"accuracy":[89],"against":[90],"state-of-the-art":[92],"method.":[94],"Further,":[95],"based":[96],"onw-event":[97],"differential":[98],"privacy,":[99],"propose":[101],"an":[102],"\u2113-trajectory":[103],"differentially":[104],"private":[105],"mechanism,":[106],"i.e.,":[107],"OffloadingBD.":[108,135],"Compared":[109],"existing":[112],"works,":[113],"OffloadingBD":[114,147],"provides":[115],"more":[116],"flexible":[117],"enhanced":[119],"with":[121,157],"sound":[122],"theoretical":[124],"guarantee.":[125],"Lastly,":[126],"conduct":[128],"extensive":[129],"experiments":[130],"evaluate":[132],"LTRA":[133,141],"The":[136],"experiment":[137],"results":[138],"show":[139],"good":[143],"generalization":[144],"ability":[145],"showcases":[148],"superior":[150],"balance":[151],"between":[152],"utility":[155],"compared":[156],"baselines.":[158]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2026,"cited_by_count":4},{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":6}],"updated_date":"2026-07-29T09:40:50.615796","created_date":"2025-10-10T00:00:00"}