Virtual Individual Servers as privacy-preserving proxies for mobile devices

SIGCOMM 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 SIGCOMM Conference and Co-Located Workshops, MobiHeld 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 37-42

  Cáceres, Ramón ^a   Cox, Landon ^b   Lim, Harold ^b   Shakimov, Amre ^b   Varshavsky, Alexander ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Location based services; Mobile devices; Online social networks; Privacy; Utility computing; Virtual machines

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; DATA PRIVACY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK SECURITY; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; VIRTUAL MACHINE;

FACEBOOK; IN-CONTROL; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; PRIVACY PRESERVING; RUNNING-IN; SOCIAL SERVICE; THIRD PARTY SERVICES; UTILITY COMPUTING;

LOCATION BASED SERVICES;

EID: 84870510126     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1592606.1592616     Document Type: Conference Paper

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