Privacy protection has become one of the important issues for location-based services (LBS)
nowadays. In order to meet the requirements of humanization, security and quick response …

The extensive use of the location-based services in today's communication world has
created tremendous interest. Considering the importance of these services, the demand for …

As location information becomes commonly available in smart phones, applications of
Location Based Service (LBS) has also become very popular and are widely used by smart …

Location-Based Services (LBSs) have become one of the most popular activities in our daily
life. With the rapid advance of LBSs, there are more threats to users' privacy. For this reason …

Location-based services are becoming increasingly popular with the proliferation of location
aware devices. It is not possible to access location-based services and preserve privacy at …

Currently, although prevalent location privacy methods based on k-anonymizing spatial
regions (K-ASRs) can achieve privacy protection by sacrificing the quality of service (QoS) …

A lot of researchers utilize side-information, such as the map which is likely to be exploited
by some attackers, to protect users' location privacy in location-based service (LBS) …

Traditional k-anonymity schemes cannot protect a user's privacy perfectly in big data and
mobile network environments. In fact, existing k-anonymity schemes only protect location in …

The advent of Location-based Services (LBS), especially in wireless communications
systems, has raised a growing concern for user about his privacy. As for every location …

Users of location-based services (LBSs) may have serious privacy concerns when using
these technologies since their location can be utilized by adversaries to infer privacy …