Design and analysis of a ranking approach to private location-based services

ACM Transactions on Database Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Yiu, Man Lung ^a   Jensen, Christian S ^b   Møller, Jesper ^c   Lu, Hua ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Location privacy; Mobile service

Indexed keywords

ANONYMIZER; COMMUNICATION COST; DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EUCLIDEAN SPACES; K-NEAREST NEIGHBORS; LOCATION PRIVACY; LOCATION-BASED SERVICES; MOBILE SERVICE; POINTS OF INTEREST; QUERY PERFORMANCE; RANKING APPROACH; SEARCH TECHNIQUE; SPATIAL NETWORK;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 79960787246     PISSN: 03625915     EISSN: 15574644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1966385.1966388     Document Type: Article

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