The location privacy is critical and preserving it is essential. The tracking exposes the real
time location, history of visited places and parsed trajectories. Metaphorically speaking, it is …

The growing advancements with the Internet of Things (IoT) devices handle an enormous
amount of data collected from various applications like healthcare, vehicle-based …

Nowadays, Location-based services (LBS) are important services that take benefits from the
revolution in communications. Nevertheless, user's privacy is considered as significant …

ABSTRACT Location-Based Services (LBSs) are essential in many application contexts like
ride-sharing or navigation apps. There are cases where users could gain an advantage by …

Location Privacy Schemes in Vehicular Networks: Taxonomy, Comparative Analysis, Design
Challenges, and Future Opportunities Page 1 P osted on 10 Jul 2020 — CC-BY 4.0 — h …

In the last years, the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), aka drones, has grown
immensely, evolving from single-UAV services to collaborative domains. Hence, the Internet …

In this thesis, we tackle a significant optimization challenge within Vehicular Ad Hoc
Networks (VANETs) by employing a simulated annealing approach. We focus on developing …

Location privacy is of utmost importance in vehicular networks, where drivers' trajectories
and personal information can be exposed, posing threats to drivers' safety and personal …

Given a threshold distance ε and two object sets R and S in a road network, an ε-distance
join query finds object pairs from R× S that are within the threshold distance ε (eg, find …

Ramp-like structures in various atmospheric surface layer time series have been long
studied, but the presence of motifs with the finer scale embedded within larger scale ramp …