Demographics inference through Wi-Fi network traffic analysis

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn 2016-July, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Li, Huaxin ^a   Xu, Zheyu ^a   Zhu, Haojin ^a   Ma, Di ^b   Li, Shuai ^c   Xing, Kai ^d  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HTTP; LEARNING SYSTEMS; METADATA; POPULATION STATISTICS; WI-FI;

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; ENCRYPTED TRAFFIC; INFERENCE TECHNIQUES; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SCALABLE APPROACH; SENSITIVE INFORMATIONS;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 84983261924     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOM.2016.7524528     Document Type: Conference Paper

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