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Kyriakos MOURATIDIS

Shortest path computations

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Shortest Path Computation With No Information Leakage, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Man Lung Yiu Jul 2012

Shortest Path Computation With No Information Leakage, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Man Lung Yiu

Kyriakos MOURATIDIS

Shortest path computation is one of the most common queries in location-based services (LBSs). Although particularly useful, such queries raise serious privacy concerns. Exposing to a (potentially untrusted) LBS the client’s position and her destination may reveal personal information, such as social habits, health condition, shopping preferences, lifestyle choices, etc. The only existing method for privacy-preserving shortest path computation follows the obfuscation paradigm; it prevents the LBS from inferring the source and destination of the query with a probability higher than a threshold. This implies, however, that the LBS still deduces some information (albeit not exact) about the client’s location …


Shortest Path Computation On Air Indexes, Georgios Kellaris, Kyriakos Mouratidis Dec 2010

Shortest Path Computation On Air Indexes, Georgios Kellaris, Kyriakos Mouratidis

Kyriakos MOURATIDIS

Shortest path computation is one of the most common queries in location-based services that involve transportation net- works. Motivated by scalability challenges faced in the mo- bile network industry, we propose adopting the wireless broad- cast model for such location-dependent applications. In this model the data are continuously transmitted on the air, while clients listen to the broadcast and process their queries locally. Although spatial problems have been considered in this environment, there exists no study on shortest path queries in road networks. We develop the rst framework to compute shortest paths on the air, and demonstrate the practicality and …