Anonymous query processing in road networks

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 2-15

  Mouratidis, Kyriakos ^a   Yiu, Man Lung ^b  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Location privacy; Location based services.; Query processing; Road networks; Spatial anonymity; Spatial databases

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE DESIGNS; EUCLIDEAN SPACES; EXISTING METHOD; LARGE REGIONS; LOCATION PRIVACY; LOCATION-AWARE; LOCATION-BASED SERVICES; NETWORK DATABASE; NETWORK DISTANCE; REAL ROAD NETWORKS; ROAD NETWORK; SPATIAL DATABASE; SPATIAL QUERIES; STORAGE SCHEMES; USER LOCATION;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); LOCATION; MOBILE DEVICES; QUERY PROCESSING; ROADS AND STREETS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

MOTOR TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 72949110369     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2009.48     Document Type: Article

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