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 …

Many modern cities strive to integrate information technology into every aspect of city life to
create so-called smart cities. Smart cities rely on a large number of application areas and …

Abstract Information technology brings business success opportunities, but also causes
potential safety hazards to organizations. In response to the increasing academia and …

The growing popularity of location-based systems, allowing unknown/untrusted servers to
easily collect huge amounts of information regarding users' location, has recently started …

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 …

The prevalence of location-based services contributes to the explosive growth of individual-
level trajectory data and raises public concerns about privacy issues. In this research, we …

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

Location-based services have become prevalent and the risk of location privacy leakage
increases. Most existing schemes use third-party-based or third-party-free system …

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 …

The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm enables computation and communication among tools
that everyone uses daily. The vastness and heterogeneity of devices and their composition …