Attacks on public WLAN-based positioning systems

MobiSys'09 - Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 29-39

  Tippenhauer, Nils Ole ^a   Rasmussen, Kasper Bonne ^a   Pöpper, Christina ^a   Čapkun, Srdjan ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Localization attacks; Public WLAN localization

Indexed keywords

LOCATION DATABASE; MOBILE PLATFORM; POSITIONING SYSTEM; PUBLIC WLAN; SAFETY-CRITICAL; SKY-HOOK;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 70450252080     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1555816.1555820     Document Type: Conference Paper

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