Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-1-2021
Abstract
In spectrum sharing systems based on spectrum trading, user locations are vital for the efficiency of dynamic channel reuse. However, both primary users (PUs) and secondary users (SUs) undertake the risk of location information leakage: a malicious PU may illegally collect SUs' location information to manipulate market decisions; a malicious SU would threat a PU's operational privacy by inferring the PU's location through seemingly inoffensive queries. To protect both PUs' and SUs' location information in spectrum trading, a bilateral privacy preservation framework is introduced in this paper. A game-theoretic approach based on the Stackelberg model is proposed to achieve the tradeoff between the privacy-preserving level and user utility. With the proposed approach, both PUs and SUs can maximize their utilities while maintaining their location privacy to desired levels. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed approach can effectively enhance user utility gain and strengthen user privacy guarantee by flexibly adjusting their privacy levels in practice.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
First Page
5144
Last Page
5158
Recommended Citation
Liu, M., Zhou, X., & Sun, M. (2021). Bilateral Privacy-Utility Tradeoff in Spectrum Sharing Systems: A Game-Theoretic Approach. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 20 (8), 5144-5158. https://doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2021.3065927
