Device-to-device (D2D) communication presents a new paradigm in mobile networking to
facilitate data exchange between physically proximate devices. The development of D2D is …

Mobile devices equipped with rich sensors, such as smartphones, watches, or vehicles,
have been pervasively used all around the world. Their high penetration and powerful …

In recent years, location-based services have become very popular, mainly driven by the
availability of modern mobile devices with integrated position sensors. Prominent examples …

Crowdsensing (CS) is a new data collection paradigm based on the willingness of people to
utilize their mobile devices to sense and transmit data of interest. Given the large amount of …

The continuously increasing use of locationbased services poses an important threat to the
privacy of users. A natural defense is to employ an obfuscation mechanism, such as those …

In recent years, networked devices spread into different activities in our daily lives enabling
many innovative applications. These applications were not only computationally-intelligent …

The prevalence of location based services (LBS) gives rise to personal privacy concerns as
users share their locations and queries to obtain desired services. For continuous queries …

With the prosperity of mobile internet and the pervasiveness of location-aware mobile
terminals, online ride-hailing, a high-level location-based service (LBS) which relies on …

The growing popularity of Location-Based Services, allowing for the collection of huge
amounts of information regarding users' locations, has started raising serious privacy …

With the development of mobile devices and GPS, plenty of Location‐based Services (LBSs)
have emerged in these years. LBSs can be applied in a variety of contexts, such as health …