This book provides a comprehensive study of the state of the art in location privacy for mobile
applications. It presents an integrated five-part framework for location privacy research
which includes the analysis of location privacy definitions attacks and adversaries location
privacy protection methods location privacy metrics and location-based mobile applications.
In addition it analyses the relationships between the various elements of location privacy
and elaborates on real-world attacks in a specific application. Furthermore the book features
case studies of three applications and shares valuable insights into future research
directions. Shedding new light on key research issues in location privacy and promoting the
advance and development of future location-based mobile applications it will be of interest to
a broad readership from students to researchers and engineers in the field.
