Hiding stars with fireworks: Location privacy through camouflage

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 345-356

  Meyerowitz, Joseph ^a   Choudhury, Romit Roy ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caching; Camouflage; Entropy; Location privacy; Location based applications; Mobility prediction; Realtime

Indexed keywords

CACHING; LOCATION PRIVACY; LOCATION-BASED APPLICATIONS; MOBILITY PREDICTION; MOBILITY PREDICTIONS; REAL TIME;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; LOCATION; MOBILE COMPUTING; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

DATA PRIVACY;

EID: 70450278755     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1614320.1614358     Document Type: Conference Paper

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