AccelPrint: Imperfections of Accelerometers Make Smartphones Trackable

21st Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, NDSS 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Dey, Sanorita ^a   Roy, Nirupam ^a   Xu, Wenyuan ^b   Choudhury, Romit Roy ^a   Nelakuditi, Srihari ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMARTPHONES;

ACCELEROMETER CHIPS; CONDITION; DEVICE ID; HIGH-LEVEL FUNCTIONS; INTERNET ACCESS; PRECISION AND RECALL; REAL-WORLD; SENSOR CHIPS; SENSOR MANUFACTURING PROCESS; SMART PHONES;

ACCELEROMETERS;

EID: 85005943103     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14722/ndss/2014.23059     Document Type: Conference Paper

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