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With the increasing popularity of GPS-enabled hand-held devices, location-based applications and services have access to accurate and real-time location information, raising serious privacy concerns for their millions of users. Trying to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-06-17 Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis , Catuscia Palamidessi , Marco Stronati

Location data privacy has become a serious concern for users as Location Based Services (LBSs) have become an important part of their life. It is possible for malicious parties having access to geolocation data to learn sensitive…

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Smartphones represent a uniquely challenging environment for agentic systems. Unlike cloud or desktop settings, mobile devices combine constrained execution contexts, fragmented control interfaces, and rapidly changing application states.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Hongchao Du , Shangyu Wu , Qiao Li , Riwei Pan , Jinheng Li , Youcheng Sun , Chun Jason Xue

Wi-Fi fingerprinting-based indoor localization faces significant challenges in real-world deployments due to domain shifts arising from device heterogeneity and temporal variations within indoor environments. Existing approaches often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Akhil Singampalli , Danish Gufran , Sudeep Pasricha

Indoor position technology has become one of the research highlights in the Internet of Things (IoT), but there is still a lack of universal, low-cost, and high-precision solutions. This paper conducts research on indoor position technology…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Chunyi Zhang , Zongwei Li , Xiaoqi Li

Typically, recommender systems from any domain, be it movies, music, restaurants, etc., are organized in a centralized fashion. The service provider holds all the data, biases in the recommender algorithms are not transparent to the user,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Felix Beierle , Tobias Eichinger

Cloud computing has been a dominant paradigm for a variety of information processing platforms, particularly for enabling various popular applications of sharing economy. However, there is a major concern regarding data privacy on these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Lingjuan Lyu , Sid Chi-Kin Chau , Nan Wang , Yifeng Zheng

Indoor localization systems have become increasingly important in a wide range of applications, including industry, security, logistics, and emergency services. However, the growing demand for accurate localization has heightened concerns…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Mohamed Mohsen , Hamada Rizk , Moustafa Youssef

Recent years have witnessed fast growth in outdoor location-based services. While GPS is considered a ubiquitous localization system, it is not supported by low-end phones, requires direct line of sight to the satellites, and can drain the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Ahmed Shokry , Marwan Torki , Moustafa Youssef

Recent advancements in AI and edge computing have accelerated the development of machine-centric applications (MCAs), such as smart surveillance systems. In these applications, video cameras and sensors offload inference tasks like license…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Azuka Chiejina , Subhramoy Mohanti , Vijay K. Shah

As mobile computing becomes central to digital interaction, researchers have turned their attention to adaptive authentication for its real-time, context- and behavior-aware verification capabilities. However, many implementations remain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Vyoma Harshitha Podapati , Divyansh Nigam , Sanchari Das

Participatory sensing is emerging as an innovative computing paradigm that targets the ubiquity of always-connected mobile phones and their sensing capabilities. In this context, a multitude of pioneering applications increasingly carry out…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-08-14 Emiliano De Cristofaro , Claudio Soriente

The ubiquitous presence of WiFi access points and mobile devices capable of measuring WiFi signal strengths allow for real-world applications in indoor localization and mapping. In particular, no additional infrastructure is required.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Bastian Schaefermeier , Gerd Stumme , Tom Hanika

The Internet of Things (IoT) is increasingly prevalent in various applications, such as healthcare and logistics. One significant service of IoT technologies that is essential for these applications is localization. The goal of this service…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Guglielmo Zocca , Omar Hasan

Mobile collaborative learning (MCL) is extensively recognized field all over the world. It demonstrates the cerebral approach combining the several technology to handle the problem of learning. MCL motivates the social and educational…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-09-19 Abdul Razaque , Khald. M. Elleithy

In a multiuser context, the Bluetooth data from the smartphone could give an approximation of the distance between users. Meanwhile, the Wi-Fi data can be used to calculate the user's position directly. However, both the Wi-Fi-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-17 Viet-Cuong Ta , Trung-Kien Dao , Dominique Vaufreydaz , Eric Castelli

Recent studies observe that app foreground is the most striking component that influences the access control decisions in mobile platform, as users tend to deny permission requests lacking visible evidence. However, none of the existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Hao Fu , Zizhan Zheng , Sencun Zhu , Pransant Mohapatra

For real-world mobile applications such as location-based advertising and spatial crowdsourcing, a key to success is targeting mobile users that can maximally cover certain locations in a future period. To find an optimal group of users,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Leye Wang , Gehua Qin , Dingqi Yang , Xiao Han , Xiaojuan Ma

Optical camera communication (OCC) exhibits considerable importance nowadays in various indoor camera based services such as smart home and robot-based automation. An android smart phone camera that is mounted on a mobile robot (MR) offers…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Md. Shahjalal , Md. Tanvir Hossan , Moh. Khalid Hasan , Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury , Nam Tuan Le , Yeong Min Jang

Object transportation in cluttered environments is a fundamental task in various domains, including domestic service and warehouse logistics. In cooperative object transport, multiple robots must coordinate to move objects that are too…

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