A survey on addressing privacy together with quality of context for context management in the Internet of Things
Annals of TelecommunicationsPublished 16 August 2013Open access
Sophie Chabridon, Romain Laborde, Thierry Desprats, Arnaud Oglaza, Pierrick Marie, Samer Machara Marquez
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It is shown that the notions of privacy and QoC are intimately related and sometimes contradictory and survey the recent works addressing them to identify some of the remaining challenges next-generation context managers have to deal with to favour users’ acceptability.
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