Enhancing location privacy in wireless LAN through disposable interface identifiers: A quantitative analysis

Mobile Networks and Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 315-325

  Gruteser, Marco ^a,b   Grunwald, Dirk ^a,b,c  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b Campus Box 430 ^*

^c Department of Computer Science and in Electrical and Computer Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Location privacy; Wireless LAN

Indexed keywords

ACCESS POINTS; LOCATION PRIVACY; WIRELESS LAN;

DATA PRIVACY; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SWITCHES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 23944520444     PISSN: 1383469X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11036-005-6425-1     Document Type: Article

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