Location privacy in processing location dependent queries in mobile database systems

Author

Tarafdar, Mehrnoosh ; Haghjoo, Mostafa S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Iran Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Tehran, Iran

fYear

2010

fDate

4-6 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

181

Lastpage

186

Abstract

Emergence of the mobile computing paradigm helps people to work in a much more convenient and efficient way, anywhere and anytime. Today its application areas such as traffic reports, weather forecast, bill paying and healthcare are so popular. The field of data management is also extended with such new services and applications. A mobile database system is a special heterogonous distributed system that supports mobile computing. One of the most important types of queries in mobile environments is location dependant query. Its answer is dependent to the mobile user´s location. However, revealing location information raises privacy concerns. This paper concentrates on query processing in this paradigm.

Keywords

data privacy; mobile computing; query processing; question answering (information retrieval); data management; heterogenous distributed system; location dependant query; location information; location privacy; mobile computing; mobile database system; query processing; Databases; GSM; Middleware; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Radio access networks; Satellite broadcasting; location dependent query; location privacy; mobile computing; mobile database; query processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications (IST), 2010 5th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tehran

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8183-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISTEL.2010.5734021

Filename

5734021