SecureAngle: Improving wireless security using angle-of-arrival information

Proceedings of the 9th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, Hotnets-9

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Xiong, Jie ^a   Jamieson, Kyle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

802.11; angle of arrival; SecureAngle; wireless

Indexed keywords

802.11; ANGLE OF ARRIVAL; DEFENSE IN DEPTH; DOWNLINK TRANSMISSIONS; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; LOCATION INFORMATION; LOCATION SERVICES; MULTI-ANTENNA; SECUREANGLE; SECURITY RISKS; WIRELESS SECURITY; WIRELESS SECURITY PROTOCOLS;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS; RADIO; RADIO STATIONS; RADIO TRANSMISSION;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 84865566718     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1868447.1868458     Document Type: Conference Paper

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