Wifi-reports: Improving wireless network selection with collaboration

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1713-1731

  Pang, Jeffrey ^a   Greenstein, Ben ^b   Kaminsky, Michael ^b   McCoy, Damon ^c   Seshan, Srinivasan ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

802.11; anonymity; Privacy; reputation; wireless

Indexed keywords

802.11; ANONYMITY; PRIVACY; REPUTATION; WIRELESS;

WI-FI;

CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 78049511924     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2010.151     Document Type: Article

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