User location privacy protection mechanism for location-based services

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT), Location-Based Services (LBS) are becoming more and more popular. However, for the users being served, how to protect their location privacy has become a growing concern. This has led to great difficulty in establishing trust between the users and the service providers, hindering the development of LBS for more comprehensive functions. In this paper, we first establish a strong identity verification mechanism to ensure the authentication security of the system and then design a new location privacy protection mechanism based on the privacy proximity test problem. This mechanism not only guarantees the confidentiality of the user's information during the subsequent information interaction and dynamic data transmission, but also meets the service provider's requirements for related data.