A practical location privacy attack in proximity services

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 87-96

  Mascetti, Sergio ^a   Bertolaja, Letizia ^a   Bettini, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Distance preserving transformations; Location Privacy; Proximity Based Services

Indexed keywords

BACK-GROUND KNOWLEDGE; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; LOCATION PRIVACY; PAIRWISE DISTANCES; PARTIAL DISTANCE; PARTIAL KNOWLEDGE; PROXIMITY SERVICE; PROXIMITY-BASED SERVICE;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84883508137     PISSN: 15516245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MDM.2013.19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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