A flexible privacy-enhanced location-based services system framework and practice

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 304-321

  Sun, Yan ^a   La Porta, Thomas F ^a   Kermani, Parviz ^b  

^a The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Hierarchical key distribution; Location privacy; Location based services; Social networks

Indexed keywords

GROUP KEY MANAGEMENTS; GROUP MEMBERS; HIERARCHICAL KEY DISTRIBUTION; HIERARCHICAL LOCATIONS; KEY TREES; LOAD TESTS; LOCATION INFORMATIONS; LOCATION PRIVACY; LOCATION-BASED SERVICES; NEXT GENERATION WIRELESS SYSTEMS; RE-KEYING; REBALANCING; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SYSTEM FRAMEWORKS; SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATIONS; USER PRIVACIES;

AD HOC NETWORKS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; TREES (MATHEMATICS); WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 58849100317     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2008.112     Document Type: Article

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