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GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Improving BitTorrent Traffic Performance by Exploiting Geographic Locality
Abstract--Current implementations of BitTorrent-like P2P applications ignore the underlying Internet topology hence incur a large amount of traffic both inside an Internet Service ...
Chen Tian, Xue Liu, Hongbo Jiang, Wenyu Liu, Yi Wa...
ICDCS
2011
IEEE
12 years 7 months ago
SpotME If You Can: Randomized Responses for Location Obfuscation on Mobile Phones
Abstract—Nowadays companies increasingly aggregate location data from different sources on the Internet to offer locationbased services such as estimating current road traffic c...
Daniele Quercia, Ilias Leontiadis, Liam McNamara, ...
GAMESEC
2011
287views Game Theory» more  GAMESEC 2011»
12 years 7 months ago
Collaborative Location Privacy with Rational Users
Recent smartphones incorporate embedded GPS devices that enable users to obtain geographic information about their surroundings by providing a location-based service (LBS) with the...
Francisco Santos, Mathias Humbert, Reza Shokri, Je...
JLBS
2008
82views more  JLBS 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Leveraging explicitly disclosed location information to understand tourist dynamics: a case study
In recent years, the large deployment of mobile devices has led to a massive increase in the volume of records of where people have been and when they were there. The analysis of t...
Fabien Girardin, Filippo Dal Fiore, Carlo Ratti, J...
SAINT
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Creating Location-Based Services by Utilising a Web of Places
We present an open, decentralized, participatory system which realizes location-based services by gently extending the existing World Wide Web. Utilizing a geospatial search engin...
Benedikt Ostermaier, Philipp Bolliger