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ICNP
2006
IEEE
15 years 12 months ago
Benefit-based Data Caching in Ad Hoc Networks
—Data caching can significantly improve the efficiency of information access in a wireless ad hoc network by reducing the access latency and bandwidth usage. However, designing e...
Bin Tang, Himanshu Gupta, Samir R. Das
ESAS
2005
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
SKiMPy: A Simple Key Management Protocol for MANETs in Emergency and Rescue Operations
Mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) provide the technical platform for efficient information sharing in emergency and rescue operations. Some the data present on the scene is highly c...
Matija Puzar, Jon Andersson, Thomas Plagemann, Yve...
VLDB
1998
ACM
91views Database» more  VLDB 1998»
15 years 10 months ago
Determining Text Databases to Search in the Internet
Text data in the Internet can be partitioned into many databases naturally. Efficient retrieval of desired data can be achieved if we can accurately predict the usefulness of each...
Weiyi Meng, King-Lup Liu, Clement T. Yu, Xiaodong ...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
210views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
16 years 6 months ago
Private queries in location based services: anonymizers are not necessary
Mobile devices equipped with positioning capabilities (e.g., GPS) can ask location-dependent queries to Location Based Services (LBS). To protect privacy, the user location must n...
Gabriel Ghinita, Panos Kalnis, Ali Khoshgozaran, C...
GIS
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
PROS: A Peer-to-Peer System for Location Privacy Protection on Road Networks
The k-anonymity technique is widely used to provide location privacy protection for accessing location-based services (LBS), i.e., the exact location of a query initiator is cloak...
Jie Bao 0003, Haiquan Chen, Wei-Shinn Ku