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Fifth Annual Conference on Communication Networks and Services Research (CNSR '07)
Evaluation Framework of Location Privacy of Wireless Mobile Systems with Arbitrary Beam Pattern
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
May 14-May 17
ISBN: 0-7695-2835-X
Ford Long Wong, University of Cambridge
Min Lin, University of Cambridge
Shishir Nagaraja, University of Cambridge
Ian Wassell, University of Cambridge
Frank Stajano, University of Cambridge
Position localization of transmitters can be carried out by an adversary owning a network of pervasive receivers, which can pinpoint the victim mobile nodes? locations with high temporal and spatial accuracy, such that pseudonym changing and higher-layer obfuscation are insufficient to protect their location privacy. Our contribution is to consider covert beam patterns, generated using multiple antennas to do adaptive beamforming, and so reducing radio signature. We architect such a privacy-enhancing system, give an informal security analysis, and develop an evaluation framework to analyze its location privacy. We performed simulations using wireless LAN parameters, and found that signal-to-noise-ratios for successful direction-finding are more stringent than those required for mere communications. We composed an end-to-end integrated radio and mobility simulation, and compared location privacy performance of omnidirectional versus adaptive beamforming antennas. Our proposal is shown to perform better. In addition, our evaluation framework is flexible and extensible.
Citation:
Ford Long Wong, Min Lin, Shishir Nagaraja, Ian Wassell, Frank Stajano, "Evaluation Framework of Location Privacy of Wireless Mobile Systems with Arbitrary Beam Pattern," cnsr, pp.157-165, Fifth Annual Conference on Communication Networks and Services Research (CNSR '07), 2007
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