Estimating the location of people using a network of sensors placed throughout an environment is a fundamental challenge in smart environments and ubiquitous computing. Id-sensors...
Abstract. Due to their small form factor and modest energy budget, individual sensors are not expected to be GPS-enabled. Moreover, in most applications, exact geographic location ...
Alan A. Bertossi, Stephan Olariu, Maria Cristina P...
—The increasing availability of location-aware mobile devices has given rise to a flurry of location-based services (LBS). Due to the nature of spatial queries, an LBS needs the...
—Countless challenges to preserving a user’s location privacy exist and have become more important than ever before with the proliferation of handheld devices and the pervasive...
This paper tackles a major privacy threat in current location-based services where users have to report their exact locations to the database server in order to obtain their desir...