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Preserving Privacy of Smart Cities Based on the Fog Computing

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The Smart city is a modern day technological concept which uses sensors, advanced communication technologies and data analysis for maximizing operational efficiency of services offered by the government to its citizens. Mobile devices are the backbone of the smart cities. These mobile devices rely heavily on clouds or fog computing to compensate their low processing capabilities. This brings new challenges to security and privacy of the users of mobile devices. In this paper we focused on the idea of utilizing fog computing properties like caching, cooperating between themselves, playing as a broker between users and cloud. We presented three novel approaches for satisfying the required privacy of the mobile devices in smart cities using fog computing. This paper is the preliminary stage of our work in progress. In future we will present this research in a comprehensive manner.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, College of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdul-Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    Adnan Ahmed Abi Sen, Fathy Albouraey Eassa & Kamal Jambi

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    Rashid Mehmood

  2. Geographic Information Science and Technology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

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  3. King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    Iyad Katib

  4. European Alliance for Innovation, Bratislava, Slovakia

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Abi Sen, A.A., Eassa, F.A., Jambi, K. (2018). Preserving Privacy of Smart Cities Based on the Fog Computing. In: Mehmood, R., Bhaduri, B., Katib, I., Chlamtac, I. (eds) Smart Societies, Infrastructure, Technologies and Applications. SCITA 2017. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 224. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94180-6_18

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