Location cheating: A security challenge to location-based social network services

Proceedings - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 740-749

  He, Wenbo ^a   Liu, Xue ^b   Ren, Mai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL POSITIONS; LOCATION BASED; LOCATION VERIFICATION; LOCATION-BASED SERVICES; MOBILE ADVERTISING; MOBILE SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICES; ROOT CAUSE; SECURITY CHALLENGES; SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICES; USER EXPERIENCE;

SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 80051889537     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDCS.2011.42     Document Type: Conference Paper

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