Providing users' anonymity in mobile hybrid networks

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Ardagna, Claudio A ^a   Jajodia, Sushil ^b   Samarati, Pierangela ^a   Stavrou, Angelos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anonymity; Mobile hybrid networks; Privacy

Indexed keywords

ANONYMITY; HYBRID NETWORK; MICRO-PAYMENT SCHEMES; MOBILE NETWORK OPERATORS; MOBILE SCENARIOS; NETWORK OVERHEAD; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS;

COMPUTER CRIME; DATA PRIVACY; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; WI-FI;

PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

EID: 84878595251     PISSN: 15335399     EISSN: 15576051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2461321.2461322     Document Type: Article

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