Protecting your daily in-home activity information from a wireless snooping attack

UbiComp 2008 - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 202-211

  Srinivasan, Vijay ^a   Stankovic, John ^a   Whitehouse, Kamin ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity monitoring; Side channel privacy attacks; Wireless fingerprinting

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY MONITORING; ASSISTED LIVINGS; DESIGN GUIDELINES; IMPLEMENTATION COSTS; PRIVACY PRESERVING; SIDE CHANNEL PRIVACY ATTACKS; SMART HOMES; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING SYSTEMS; UBIQUITOUS SYSTEMS; WIRELESS FINGERPRINTING; WIRELESS SENSORS; WIRELESS TRANSMISSIONS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATA PRIVACY; HYBRID SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; SENSORS;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 59249104484     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1409635.1409663     Document Type: Conference Paper

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