Privacy is the cause of an important concern in the context of mobile applications, once these applications manipulate a countless number of the users’ confidential and personal information through their mobile devices. ...

Location privacy is a concern in mobile networks monitoring systems. We propose a model using homomorphic encryption, where researchers can compute aggregations, learning nothing more about users' location than the result ...

The fifth generation (5G) of cellular networks improves the precision of user localization and provides the means to disclose location information to over-the-top (OTT) service providers. The network data analytics function ...

Nearly 100% of Americans aged 18 to 29 own a cell phone of some kind, and there has been a move toward using mobile devices for financial services; however, such a move also implies increased opportunities for fraud. ...

Advances in mobile communication networks from 2G to 5G have brought unprecedented traffic growth, and 5G mobile communication networks are expected to be used in a variety of industries based on innovative technologies, ...

Mobile social networks are characterized by the sharing of user context information, such as the location of one’s mobile device, with one’s friends and groups of friends. The location information in a social network enables ...

Introduction: The use of mobile applications has increased in the last years. Most of them require the knowledge of the user location, either for their core service or for marketing purposes. Location-based services (LBS) ...

The technology is neutral, it is neither good nor bad in itself, but depends on the use made of it. The mobile users devices are exposed to public safety systems, but on the other hand may also be achieved by end vested ...

Today, Smartphones are very powerful, and many of its applications use wireless multimedia communications. Prevention from the external dangers (threats) has become a big concern for the experts these days. Android ...