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A Privacy-Aware Distributed Storage And Replication Middleware For Heterogeneous Computing Platform, Jilong Liao
A Privacy-Aware Distributed Storage And Replication Middleware For Heterogeneous Computing Platform, Jilong Liao
Masters Theses
Cloud computing is an emerging research area that has drawn considerable interest in recent years. However, the current infrastructure raises significant concerns about how to protect users' privacy, in part due to that users are storing their data in the cloud vendors' servers. In this paper, we address this challenge by proposing and implementing a novel middleware, called Uno, which separates the storage of physical data and their associated metadata. In our design, users' physical data are stored locally on those devices under a user's full control, while their metadata can be uploaded to the commercial cloud. To ensure the …
A Novel Defense Mechanism Against Web Crawler Intrusion, Alireza Aghamohammadi
A Novel Defense Mechanism Against Web Crawler Intrusion, Alireza Aghamohammadi
Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations
Web robots also known as crawlers or spiders are used by search engines, hackers and spammers to gather information about web pages. Timely detection and prevention of unwanted crawlers increases privacy and security of websites. In this research, a novel method to identify web crawlers is proposed to prevent unwanted crawler to access websites. The proposed method suggests a five-factor identification process to detect unwanted crawlers. This study provides the pretest and posttest results along with a systematic evaluation of web pages with the proposed identification technique versus web pages without the proposed identification process. An experiment was performed with …
Trajectory Privacy Preservation In Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks, Xinyu Jin
Trajectory Privacy Preservation In Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks, Xinyu Jin
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
In recent years, there has been an enormous growth of location-aware devices, such as GPS embedded cell phones, mobile sensors and radio-frequency identification tags. The age of combining sensing, processing and communication in one device, gives rise to a vast number of applications leading to endless possibilities and a realization of mobile Wireless Sensor Network (mWSN) applications. As computing, sensing and communication become more ubiquitous, trajectory privacy becomes a critical piece of information and an important factor for commercial success. While on the move, sensor nodes continuously transmit data streams of sensed values and spatiotemporal information, known as ``trajectory information". …
A Reputation-Based Privacy Management System For Social Networking Sites, Mehmet Erkan Yüksel, Asim Si̇nan Yüksel, Abdül Hali̇m Zai̇m
A Reputation-Based Privacy Management System For Social Networking Sites, Mehmet Erkan Yüksel, Asim Si̇nan Yüksel, Abdül Hali̇m Zai̇m
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Social networking sites form a special type of virtual community where we share our personal information with people and develop new relationships on the Internet. These sites allow the users to share just about everything, including photos, videos, favorite music, and games, and record all user interactions and retain them for potential use in social data mining. This storing and sharing of large amounts of information causes privacy problems for the users of these websites. In order to prevent these problems, we have to provide strict privacy policies, data protection mechanisms, and trusted and built-in applications that help to protect …