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PET
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Achieving Efficient Query Privacy for Location Based Services
Mobile smartphone users frequently need to search for nearby points of interest from a location based service, but in a way that preserves the privacy of the users' locations...
Femi G. Olumofin, Piotr K. Tysowski, Ian Goldberg,...
USS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Privacy-Preserving Location Tracking of Lost or Stolen Devices: Cryptographic Techniques and Replacing Trusted Third Parties wit
We tackle the problem of building privacy-preserving device-tracking systems -- or private methods to assist in the recovery of lost or stolen Internet-connected mobile devices. T...
Thomas Ristenpart, Gabriel Maganis, Arvind Krishna...
COMPSAC
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
A Privacy Enhancing Approach for Identity Inference Protection in Location-Based Services
—Recent advances in mobile handheld devices have facilitated the ubiquitous availability of location based services. Systems which provide location based services have always bee...
Chowdhury Sharif Hasan, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Moham...
COMPSAC
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
ELALPS: A Framework to Eliminate Location Anonymizer from Location Privacy Systems
—Countless challenges to preserving a user’s location privacy exist and have become more important than ever before with the proliferation of handheld devices and the pervasive...
Mehrab Monjur, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Chowdhury Shar...
WISEC
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Zeroing-in on network metric minima for sink location determination
The locations of base stations are critically important to the viability of wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we examine the location privacy problem from both the attack a...
Zhenhua Liu, Wenyuan Xu
PERVASIVE
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Formal Model of Obfuscation and Negotiation for Location Privacy
Obfuscation concerns the practice of deliberately degrading the quality of information in some way, so as to protect the privacy of the individual to whom that information refers. ...
Matt Duckham, Lars Kulik
COSIT
2005
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Simulation of Obfuscation and Negotiation for Location Privacy
Abstract. Current mobile computing systems can automatically sense and communicate detailed data about a person’s location. Location privacy is an urgent research issue because c...
Matt Duckham, Lars Kulik
ICDCSW
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Anonymizing Geographic Ad Hoc Routing for Preserving Location Privacy
Due to the utilization of location information, geographic ad hoc routing presents superiority in scalability compared with traditional topology-based routing in mobile ad hoc net...
Zhou Zhi, Yow Kin Choong
WS
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Location privacy in wireless personal area networks
Location privacy is one of the major security problems in a Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN). By eavesdropping on the transmitted packets, an attacker can keep track of the p...
Dave Singelée, Bart Preneel
WPES
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A study on the value of location privacy
This paper introduces results of a study into the value of location privacy for individuals using mobile devices. We questioned a sample of over 1200 people from five EU countrie...
Daniel Cvrcek, Marek Kumpost, Vashek Matyas, Georg...