The Cricket location-support system
MobiCom '00 Proceedings of the 6th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Robotics-based location sensing using wireless ethernet
Proceedings of the 8th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
WLAN Location Determination via Clustering and Probability Distributions
PERCOM '03 Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
Wireless LAN location-sensing for security applications
WiSe '03 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Wireless security
VOR base stations for indoor 802.11 positioning
Proceedings of the 10th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Practical robust localization over large-scale 802.11 wireless networks
Proceedings of the 10th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Short Paper: Towards a Location-Aware Role-Based Access Control Model
SECURECOMM '05 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Security and Privacy for Emerging Areas in Communications Networks
Robust statistical methods for securing wireless localization in sensor networks
IPSN '05 Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Information processing in sensor networks
COMPASS: A probabilistic indoor positioning system based on 802.11 and digital compasses
WiNTECH '06 Proceedings of the 1st international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation & characterization
Detecting identity-based attacks in wireless networks using signalprints
WiSe '06 Proceedings of the 5th ACM workshop on Wireless security
Identifying unique devices through wireless fingerprinting
WiSec '08 Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Wireless network security
A security and robustness performance analysis of localization algorithms to signal strength attacks
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
The robustness of localization algorithms to signal strength attacks: a comparative study
DCOSS'06 Proceedings of the Second IEEE international conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
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802.11 localization algorithms provide the ability to accurately position and track wireless clients thereby enabling location-based services and applications. However, we show that these localization techniques are vulnerable to noncryptographic attacks where an adversary uses a low-cost directional antenna to appear from the localization algorithm's perspective to be in another arbitrary location of their choosing. The attacker's ability to actively influence where they are positioned is a key distinguishing feature of the directional attack relative to prior localization attacks that use transmit power control to introduce localization errors. We implement a representative set of received signal strength-based localization algorithms and evaluate the attack in a real office building environment. To mitigate the attack's effectiveness, we develop and evaluate an attack detection scheme that offers a high detection rate with few false positives.