With the proliferation of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), the users’ trajectory data containing privacy information in the IoT systems are easily exposed to the adversaries in continuous location-based services (LBSs) and trajectory publication. Existing trajectory protection schemes generate dummy trajectories without considering the user mobility pattern accurately. This would cause that the adversaries can easily exclude the dummy trajectories according to the obtained geographic feature information. In this paper, the continuous location entropy and the trajectory entropy are defined based on the gravity mobility model to measure the level of trajectory protection. Then, two trajectory protection schemes are proposed based on the defined entropy metrics to protect the trajectory data in continuous LBSs and trajectory publication, respectively. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed schemes have a higher level than the enhanced dummy-location selection (enhance-DLS) scheme and the random scheme.
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