Privacy-preserving location-based query using location indexes and parallel searching in distributed networks.

An efficient location-based query algorithm of protecting the privacy of the user in the distributed networks is given. This algorithm utilizes the location indexes of the users and multiple parallel threads to search and select quickly all the candidate anonymous sets with more users and their loca...

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Publicado en:Scientific World Journal pp. 751845 - 751846
Autores principales: Zhong, Cheng, Liu, Lei, Zhao, Jing
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell 2014
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
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Sumario:An efficient location-based query algorithm of protecting the privacy of the user in the distributed networks is given. This algorithm utilizes the location indexes of the users and multiple parallel threads to search and select quickly all the candidate anonymous sets with more users and their location information with more uniform distribution to accelerate the execution of the temporal-spatial anonymous operations, and it allows the users to configure their custom-made privacy-preserving location query requests. The simulated experiment results show that the proposed algorithm can offer simultaneously the location query services for more users and improve the performance of the anonymous server and satisfy the anonymous location requests of the users.