Comprehensive review: Privacy protection of user in location-aware services of mobile cloud computing

Z A. Almusaylim, NZ Jhanjhi - Wireless Personal Communications, 2020 - Springer
One of the recent trends of networking and mobile technology is mobile cloud computing
(MCC) that provides rich computational, storage resources and services in clouds to mobile …

SDTE: A secure blockchain-based data trading ecosystem

W Dai, C Dai, KKR Choo, C Cui… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data, a key asset in our data-driven economy, has fueled the emergence of a new data
trading industry. However, there are a number of limitations in conventional data trading …

An efficient index structure for distributed k-nearest neighbours query processing

M Yang, K Ma, X Yu - Soft Computing, 2020 - Springer
Many location-based services are supported by the moving k-nearest neighbour (k-NN)
query, which continuously returns the k-nearest data objects for a query point. Most of …

WLAN indoor positioning method based on gradient boosting and particle filtering

L Hu, Z Li, X Yang, C Wei - International Journal of …, 2019 - inderscienceonline.com
Indoor positioning technology has shown its great application prospects in smart cities. The
main purpose of this paper is to study a low-cost, low-error indoor positioning method that …

Secure Top-k Preference Query for Location-based Services in Crowd-outsourcing Environments

H Wu, L Wang, S Jiang - The Computer Journal, 2018 - academic.oup.com
This paper considers a practical crowd-outsourcing system model for location-based
services which has become increasingly popular due to the rapid proliferation of location …