1. Introduction
1.1. Definition of Location Privacy
1.2. Location Privacy Risks: Attacks and Adversaries
1.3. People's View About Location Privacy
1.4. Practical Applications with Location Privacy Issues
1.5. The Unified Location Privacy Research Framework
1.6. Outline and Book Overview
2. Location Privacy Preserving Mechanisms
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Cryptography-based Mechanism
2.3. Anonymization Mechanism
2.4. Obfuscation Mechanism
2.5. Reducing Location Information Sharing
2.6. Location Privacy Metrics and Performance Evaluations
2.7. Comparisons and Discussions
3. Location Privacy in Mobile Social Network Applications
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Sensitive Location Predication by Users' Social Network Data
3.3. Protecting Important Locations in Social Networks
3.4. Summary
4. Location Privacy in Mobile Crowd Sensing Applications
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Related Works
4.3. A Privacy Preserving Mobile Crowd Sensing Framework Based on Economic Modes
4.4. Performance Evaluation
4.5. Summary
5. Location Privacy in Wireless Vehicular Networks 5.1. Introduction 5.2. Related Works 5.3. Enhancing Privacy by Content Broadcasting and Active Caching
5.4. Performance Evaluation
5.5. Summary
6. Future Directions and Conclusions
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