Privacy-preserving locationbased services for mobile users in wireless networks (2004)
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BibTeX
@TECHREPORT{Zhong04privacy-preservinglocationbased,
author = {Sheng Zhong and Li (erran Li and Yanbin Grace Liu and Yang Richard Yang},
title = {Privacy-preserving locationbased services for mobile users in wireless networks},
institution = {},
year = {2004}
}
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Abstract
Abstract — Mobility is key to personal freedom. With the increasing availability of mobile devices, many providers begin to offer location-based services. Although these services greatly enrich our mobility experiences, with them also comes the privacy concerns, as a location-based service provider now can continuously track the location of a user. This tracking may allow unauthorized access and cause serious consequences. Although a few solutions have been proposed to address the privacy concerns in various aspects, there has not been any comprehensive study of the problem; furthermore, most of the existing solutions require that a user trust a third party such as a location server. In this paper, we investigate privacy-preserving locationbased services for the three components involved in providing







