This book focuses on three emerging research topics in mobile social
networks (MSNs): privacy-preserving profile matching (PPM) protocols,
privacy-preserving cooperative data forwarding (PDF) protocols, and
trustworthy service evaluation (TSE) systems. The PPM helps two users
compare their personal profiles without disclosing the profiles. The PDF
helps users forward data to their friends via multiple cooperative relay
peers while preserving their identity and location privacy. The TSE
enables users to locally share service reviews on the vendors such that
users receive more valuable information about the services not only from
vendors but also from their trusted social friends. The authors address
both theoretic and practical aspects of these topics by introducing the
system model, reviewing the related works, and presenting the solutions.
Security and Privacy for Mobile Social Networks further provides the
security analysis and the performance evaluation based on real-trace
simulations. It also summarizes the future research directions for this
rapidly growing area of research. The book will be valuable for
researchers and practitioners who work with mobile social networks,
communication platforms, wireless communication techniques, and internet
applications.
"Suitable for any type of reader as an introduction to the topic... The
chapters are well motivated and presented... It is recommended for
researchers." -ACM Computing Reviews, 21 July 2014
