An anonymous end-to-end communication protocol for mobile cloud environments

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 373-386

  Ardagna, Claudio A ^a   Conti, Mauro ^b   Leone, Mario ^b   Stefa, Julinda ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anonymity; mobile cloud computing; mobile communications; smartphone clones

Indexed keywords

ANONYMITY; END-TO-END COMMUNICATION; MOBILE CLOUDS; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS;

MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 84907207994     PISSN: 19391374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2014.2304717     Document Type: Article

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