Efficient and privacy-preserving proximity detection schemes for social applications

H Zhu, F Wang, R Lu, F Liu, G Fu… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the pervasiveness of location-aware mobile terminals and the popularity of social
applications, location-based social networking service (LBSNS) has brought great …

Private proximity detection and monitoring with vicinity regions

X Lin, H Hu, HP Li, J Xu, B Choi - … on Data Engineering for Wireless and …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Proximity detection is an important location-based service (LBS) that helps mobile users find
nearby friends. However, this service usually requires users to submit their locations to the …

The flexible and privacy-preserving proximity detection in mobile social network

A Ye, Q Chen, L Xu, W Wu - Future Generation Computer Systems, 2018 - Elsevier
With the popularity of mobile social network, proximity detection has become a fundamental
service. For the traditional proximity detection methods, users need to upload their locations …

Faster privacy-preserving location proximity schemes

K Järvinen, Á Kiss, T Schneider, O Tkachenko… - Cryptology and Network …, 2018 - Springer
In the last decade, location information became easily obtainable using off-the-shelf mobile
devices. This gave a momentum to developing Location Based Services (LBSs) such as …

User-defined privacy location-sharing system in mobile online social networks

G Sun, Y Xie, D Liao, H Yu, V Chang - Journal of Network and Computer …, 2017 - Elsevier
With the fusion of social networks and location-based services, location sharing is one of the
most important services in mobile online social networks (mOSNs). In location-sharing …

Privacy-preserving location sharing services for social networks

R Schlegel, CY Chow, Q Huang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A common functionality of many location-based social networking applications is a location
sharing service that allows a group of friends to share their locations. With a potentially …

A personalized range‐sensitive privacy‐preserving scheme in LBSs

W Li, B Niu, J Cao, Y Luo, H Li - Concurrency and computation …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mobile social network has become a necessary part in our daily life, and location‐based
services (LBSs) provide unprecedented convenience to mobile users. However, these …

Nearby friend alert: Location anonymity in mobile geosocial networks

HP Li, H Hu, J Xu - IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile geosocial networking services could be the killer app for next-generation mobile
computing. However, the privacy issue--in particular, location privacy--has both users and …

Enabling mutually private location proximity services in smart cities: A comparative assessment

MG Solomon, V Sunderam, L Xiong… - 2016 IEEE International …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Location aware applications that provide smart city building blocks are growing in popularity
as mobile devices approach ubiquity. While the specific definition of “smart city” is still …

Efficient and privacy-preserving arbitrary polygon range query scheme over dynamic and time-series location data

F Wang, H Zhu, G He, R Lu, Y Zheng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Location-based services (LBSs) provide enhanced functionality of mobile applications and
convenience for mobile users, which plays a more and more remarkable role in people's …