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Location Privacy in Pervasive Computing

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Alastair R. Beresford,

Frank StajanoAuthors Info & Claims

IEEE Pervasive Computing, Volume 2, Issue 1

Pages 46 - 55

https://doi.org/10.1109/MPRV.2003.1186725

Published: 01 January 2003 Publication History

Abstract

The authors protect location privacy using mix zonesýa new construction comparable to the mix nodes used for anonymous communications. They discuss two quantitative location privacy metrics they developed based on mix zones and demonstrate their use on a three-million-sample database of real location data from the Active Bat system.

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January 2003

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