The directional attack on wireless localization - or - How to spoof your location with a tin can

GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Bauer, Kevin ^a   McCoy, Damon ^a   Anderson, Eric ^a   Breitenbach, Markus ^a   Grudic, Greg ^a   Grunwald, Dirk ^a   Sicker, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTACK DETECTION; DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA; FALSE POSITIVE; HIGH DETECTION RATE; LOCALIZATION ALGORITHM; LOCALIZATION ERRORS; LOCALIZATION TECHNIQUE; LOCATION-BASED SERVICES; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH; TRANSMIT POWER CONTROL; WIRELESS CLIENT; WIRELESS LOCALIZATION;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; OFFICE BUILDINGS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; TIN; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS;

CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 77951524528     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2009.5425737     Document Type: Conference Paper

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