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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Location privacy"”.
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Location privacy in automotive telematics
… benefits, systematic disclosure of precise location has the ability to impinge on privacy of a special kind, known as location privacy. The aim of this thesis is to provide technical designs that enhance the location privacy of motorists without compromising the benefits of accurate pricing. …
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A cryptographic approach to location privacy
The rapid expansion of location-based services (LBS) has driven an escalating demand for personalised and context-aware applications, enriching user experiences across health, weather, and navigation sectors. These services offer valuable insights into various applications using large-scale …
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Location Privacy In Emerging Network-Based Applications
… wide spread of computer systems and networks, privacy has become an issue that increasingly attracts attention. In wireless sensor networks, the location of an event source may be subject to unintentional disclosure through traffic analysis by the attacker. In vehicular networks, authentication …
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Supporting Location Privacy Management through Feedback and Control
… digital systems involves a large degree of privacy management, i.e. controlling who may access what information under what circumstances. Effective privacy management (control) requires that mobile systems’ users be able to make informed privacy decisions as their experience and knowledge of …
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A location privacy model and framework for mobile toy computing
… Device (BYOD). There is currently no standard privacy-preserving framework for mobile toy computing applications. Children’s privacy is becoming a major concern for parents who wish to protect their children from potential harms related to the collection or misuse of their private data, …
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Multidimensional Epidemiological Transformations: Addressing Location-Privacy in Public Health Practice
… individuals – has been at odds with the right to privacy. This is particularly significant when location privacy is under consideration. Spatial information is an important aspect of public health, yet the increasing availability of spatial imagery and location-sensitive applications and …
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Providing Location Privacy to Base Station in Wireless Sensor Networks
… counter a subsetof the security issues in WSNs - Location privacy of Base station(BS) in a WSN. Weproposed three novel methods- BLAST, APCAPT and hybrid method that combinesthe two techniques to provide location privacy to the Base station using power control(varying the power with which sensor …
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Provable and practical location privacy for vehicular and mobile systems
… years, there has been a rapid evolution of location-based vehicular and mobile services (e.g., electronic tolling, congestion pricing, traffic statistics, insurance pricing, location-based social applications), which promise tremendous benefits to users. Unfortunately, most such systems pose …
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Location privacy exchange behavior: development and testing of two proposed models
Researchers studying the role of privacy perceptions in Location-Based Services (LBS) have primarily focused on information disclosure decisions at the individual transaction level, weighing the benefits of LBS against the risks of a potential privacy breach. In contrast, two of the three essays in …
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Location Privacy in VANETs: Improved Chaff-Based CMIX and Privacy-Preserving End-to-End Communication
… themselves are safe and secure, protecting the privacy of their users. There is a risk that cars might be hacked, or their sensors become defective, causing inaccurate information to be sent across the network. Consequently, the activities and credentials of participating vehicles should be held …
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Location based services in wireless ad hoc networks
"In this dissertation, we investigate location based services in wireless ad hoc networks from four different aspects - i) location privacy in wireless sensor networks (privacy), ii) end-to-end secure communication in randomly deployed wireless sensor networks (security), iii) quality versus …
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Balancing privacy needs with location sharing in mobile computing
… interaction. As more phones come equipped with location tracking capabilities, capable of collecting and distributing personal information (including location) of their users, user control of location information and privacy for that matter, has become an important research issue. This research …
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Privacy-preserving authentication and billing for dynamic charging of electric vehicles
… and billing. Due to EV's high mobility, location privacy is also an important research issue. In this thesis we present three protocols: FADEC, Portunes, and Janus, that together provide privacy-preserving authentication and billing framework for dynamic charging of EVs. The protocols are …
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Localizing Jammers in Wireless Networks
… or eavesdrop on the communication breaching the location privacy. Those threats are challenging to cope with, because most of them cannot be addressed by traditional cryptographic methods.</p> <p>One of the attacks that can easily imperil the availability of networks is jamming attacks. An …
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An Optimized Alert System Based on Geospatial Location Data
… only half of the battle. The use of geospatial location is missing from alert systems utilized at university campuses across the United States. Our research included the design and implementation of a mobile application addition to our campus notification system. This addition is complete with …
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Spectrum Efficiency and Security in Dynamic Spectrum Sharing
… based propagation models require accurate geo-locations of SUs which might not always be available, such as when SUs are mobile, or when their locations are obfuscated for location privacy concerns. Our second contribution in this dissertation is the novel concept of Multi-tiered Incumbent …
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Spectrum Management Issues in Centralized and Distributed Dynamic Spectrum Access
… which is obtained during spectrum sensing, privacy issues of IUs become big concerns in some DSA systems where IUs have strong operation security needs. To aid in this, we design novel location privacy protection schemes for IUs. Considering the general drawbacks of centralized systems …
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Primary User Obfuscation in an Incumbent Informed Spectrum Access System
… incumbents must have spectrum protection and privacy from malicious new entrants. In this Spectrum Access System (SAS) advancement, Primary Users (PUs) are obfuscated with the efforts of the SAS and the cooperation of obedient new entrants. Further, the necessary changes to the SAS to support …
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Wireless Network Physical Layer Security with Smart Antenna
… layer solutions to anti-eavesdropping and location security problems. We first investigate the problem of enhancing wireless communication privacy. A novel scheme named "artificial fading" is proposed, which leverages the beam switching capability of smart antennas to prevent eavesdropping …
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Understanding the interaction between reliability and wireless broadcast
… popularity recently. We then study the source location problem where the broadcast nature of the wireless medium is the underly- ing cause of a breach in location privacy. We propose and evaluate several solutions for the problem.
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