Research Article

A User-Defined Location-Sharing Scheme with Efficiency and Privacy in Mobile Social Networks

Table 1

Summary of notations.

NotationDescription

Point coordinate of user u
Grid coordinate of user u
Origin of the grid user u located
Offset to the ordinate origin of user u
GuGrid identification number of the user u
H (u)Hilbert value of the cell user u located
Starting point of Hilbert curve