An obfuscation-based approach for protecting location privacy

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 13-27

  Ardagna, Claudio A ^a   Cremonini, Marco ^a   De Capitani Di Vimercati, Sabrina ^a   Samarati, Pierangela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

location based services.; obfuscation techniques; Privacy

Indexed keywords

DATA PRIVACY; LOCATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

ADVERSARY MODELING; LOCATION INFORMATION; LOCATION TECHNIQUES; MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICES; NEW APPLICATIONS; OBFUSCATION TECHNIQUES; PRIVACY CONCERNS; TECHNICAL IMPROVEMENT;

LOCATION BASED SERVICES;

EID: 78649342447     PISSN: 15455971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2009.25     Document Type: Article

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