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Edge caching (EC) decreases the average access delay of the end-users through caching popular content at the edge network, however, it increases the leakage probability of valuable information such as users preferences. Most of the existing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Seyedeh Bahereh Hassanpour , Ahmad Khonsari , Masoumeh Moradian , Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is an emerging paradigm that provides computing, storage, and networking resources within the edge of the mobile Radio Access Network (RAN). MEC servers are deployed on generic computing platform within the RAN…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Tuyen X. Tran , Abolfazl Hajisami , Parul Pandey , Dario Pompili

Privacy in Location-Based Services (LBS) has become a paramount concern with the ubiquity of mobile devices and the increasing integration of location data into various applications. This paper presents several novel contributions to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Anis Bkakria , Reda Yaich

The fifth generation (5G) mobile telecommunication network is expected to support Multi- Access Edge Computing (MEC), which intends to distribute computation tasks and services from the central cloud to the edge clouds. Towards…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Bin Han , Stan Wong , Christian Mannweiler , Marcos Rate Crippa , Hans D. Schotten

This letter considers a multi-access mobile edge computing (MEC) network consisting of multiple users, multiple base stations, and a malicious eavesdropper. Specifically, the users adopt the partial offloading strategy by partitioning the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Mingxiong Zhao , Huiqi Bao , Li Yin , Jianping Yao , Tony Q. S. Quek

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is an emerging paradigm that pushes resources for sensing, communications, computing, storage and intelligence (SCCSI) to the premises closer to the end users, i.e., the edge, so that they could leverage…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Yiqin Deng , Xianhao Chen , Guangyu Zhu , Yuguang Fang , Zhigang Chen , Xiaoheng Deng

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is emerging to support delay-sensitive 5G applications at the edge of mobile networks. When a user moves erratically among multiple MEC nodes, the challenge of how to dynamically migrate its service to maintain…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Huirong Ma , Zhi Zhou , Xu Chen

Image-based localization is a core component of many augmented/mixed reality (AR/MR) and autonomous robotic systems. Current localization systems rely on the persistent storage of 3D point clouds of the scene to enable camera pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Pablo Speciale , Johannes L. Schönberger , Sing Bing Kang , Sudipta N. Sinha , Marc Pollefeys

This paper proposes a privacy protection and evaluation method for location services based on edge computing environment. By constructing the site service data protection and system evaluation system in the edge computing environment, based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Shuang Liu

Location-Based Recommendation Services (LBRS) has seen an unprecedented rise in its usage in recent years. LBRS facilitates a user by recommending services based on his location and past preferences. However, leveraging such services comes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Mishel Jain , Priyanka Singh , Balasubramanian Raman

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising paradigm to meet the quality of service (QoS) requirements of latency-sensitive IoT applications. However, attackers may eavesdrop on the offloading decisions to infer the edge server's (ES's)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Shuying Gan , Marie Siew , Chao Xu , Tony Q. S. Quek

Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs) enable opportunistic access to the licensed channel resources by allowing unlicensed users to exploit vacant channel opportunities. One effective technique through which unlicensed users, often referred to as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Mohamed Grissa , Attila Yavuz , Bechir Hamdaoui

With the ongoing development of Indoor Location-Based Services, the location information of users in indoor environments has been a challenging issue in recent years. Due to the widespread use of WiFi networks, WiFi fingerprinting has…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Amin Kargar-Barzi , Ebrahim Farahmand , Nooshin Taheri Chatrudi , Ali Mahani , Muhammad Shafique

As vehicles become increasingly connected and autonomous, they accumulate and manage various personal data, thereby presenting a key challenge in preserving privacy during data sharing and processing. This survey reviews applications of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Nergiz Yuca , Nikolay Matyunin , Ektor Arzoglou , Nikolaos Athanasios Anagnostopoulos , Stefan Katzenbeisser

Recent years have seen rising needs for location-based services in our everyday life. Aside from the many advantages provided by these services, they have caused serious concerns regarding the location privacy of users. An adversary such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Sina Shaham , Ming Ding , Bo Liu , Zihuai Lin , Jun Li

Governments and researchers around the world are implementing digital contact tracing solutions to stem the spread of infectious disease, namely COVID-19. Many of these solutions threaten individual rights and privacy. Our goal is to break…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Alex Berke , Michiel Bakker , Praneeth Vepakomma , Kent Larson , Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

Driven by the visions of Internet of Things and 5G communications, recent years have seen a paradigm shift in mobile computing, from the centralized Mobile Cloud Computing towards Mobile Edge Computing (MEC). The main feature of MEC is to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Yuyi Mao , Changsheng You , Jun Zhang , Kaibin Huang , Khaled B. Letaief

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a prominent computing paradigm which expands the application fields of wireless communication. Due to the limitation of the capacities of user equipments and MEC servers, edge caching (EC) optimization is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Shengheng Liu , Chong Zheng , Yongming Huang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has empowered mobile devices (MDs) in supporting artificial intelligence (AI) applications through collaborative efforts with proximal MEC servers. Unfortunately, despite the great promise of device-edge…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Wenhao Zhuang , Yuyi Mao

Users of location-based services (LBSs) are highly vulnerable to privacy risks since they need to disclose, at least partially, their locations to benefit from these services. One possibility to limit these risks is to obfuscate the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Ehab ElSalamouny , Sébastien Gambs