Abstract. Data aggregation is a key aspect of many distributed applications, such as distributed sensing, performance monitoring, and distributed diagnostics. In such settings, use...
Krishna P. N. Puttaswamy, Ranjita Bhagwan, Venkata...
Social networking web sites or social networks for short (SNs) have become an important web service with a broad range of applications. In an SN, a user publishes and shares inform...
Microsoft has proposed an identity metasystem to standardize identity services and the principles behind them. A location metasystem can support interoperation between location se...
Advances in sensing and tracking technology enable location-based applications but they also create significant privacy risks. Anonymity can provide a high degree of privacy, save...
: The public telephone network has been evolving from manually switched wires carrying analog encoded voice of the 19th century to an automatically switched grid of copper-wired, f...