Privacy-Preserving Top- kk Spatial Keyword Queries in Fog-Based Cloud Computing

• Published in: IEEE transactions on services computing Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 504 - 514
• Main Authors: Li, Xinghua, Bai, Lizhong, Miao, Yinbin, Ma, Siqi, Ma, Jianfeng, Liu, Ximeng, Choo, Kim-Kwang Raymond
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.01.2023
• Subjects: Cloud computing; Cryptography; Edge computing; Encryption; fog computing; Indexes; IR-tree; Privacy; privacy-preserving; Servers; Spatial keyword queries

With the popularity of location based services, spatial keyword query has become an important application. In order to mininize storage and computational costs, most data owners will outsource the data to the cloud server. There are, however, implications such as potential for privacy leakage and ne...