With the increasing proliferation of the Mobile Social Networks (MSN) and the Location
Based Service (LBS), location privacy has attracted broad attention in recent years. Most …

Location-based social network (LBSN) has grown exponentially over the past several years.
Given its high utility value, LBSN, however, has raised serious concerns about users' …

With rapid advances in mobile communication technologies and continued price reduction
of location tracking devices, location-based services (LBSs) are widely recognized as an …

In the field of computational location privacy there are two active privacy enhancing methods
typically available: anonymity and obfuscation (location cloaking). In a communication …

Location-aware smart phones support various location-based services (LBSs): users query
the LBS server and learn on the fly about their surroundings. However, such queries give …

Recently, highly accurate positioning devices enables us to provide various types of location
based services (LBS). On the other hand, because such positioning data include deeply …

Applying the proliferated location‐based services (LBSs) to social networks has spawned
mobile social network (MSN) services that allow users to discover potential friends around …

While mobile services are maturing in the Mobile Computing world, location services have
started mushrooming in every day work which are making good impact for humans as well …

The current privacy protection methods adopted by social network providers rely on
restricting users' access rights. They force a user to rigidly divide other users into two …

With the rapid development of mobile Internet and locating technology, location-based
services (LBS) are widely used in mobile social networks, while the user obtained the LBS …