Location-based services (LBSs) provide enhanced functionality and convenience of
ubiquitous computing, but they open up new vulnerabilities that can be utilized to violate the …

Abstract Deployments of Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs) in smart cities are poised to
significantly improve healthcare, transportation services, utilities, safety, and environmental …

The advances in location-acquisition and mobile computing techniques have generated
massive spatial trajectory data, which represent the mobility of a diversity of moving objects …

The collection and analysis of data are continuously growing due to the pervasiveness of
computing devices. The analysis of such information is fostering businesses and …

ABSTRACT The Internet of Things paradigm envisions the pervasive interconnection and
cooperation of smart things over the current and future Internet infrastructure. The Internet of …

Safety-critical applications in cooperative vehicular networks require authentication of nodes
and messages. Yet, privacy of individual vehicles and drivers must be maintained …

Concerns on location privacy frequently arise with the rapid development of GPS enabled
devices and location-based applications. While spatial transformation techniques such as …

Location-Based Service (LBS) has become a vital part of our daily life. While enjoying the
convenience provided by LBS, users may lose privacy since the untrusted LBS server has …

With the advancement in communication techniques and sensor technologies, mobile
crowdsensing (MCS)—one of the most successful applications of crowdsourcing—has …

Despite the vast opportunities offered by location-aware marketing (LAM), mobile customers'
privacy concerns appear to be a major inhibiting factor in their acceptance of LAM. This …