Voronoi diagrams—a survey of a fundamental geometric data structure
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
An engineering approach to computer networking: ATM networks, the Internet, and the telephone network
GSM Networks: Protocols, Terminology, and Implementation
GSM Networks: Protocols, Terminology, and Implementation
Computer Networks
Mobile Wireless Communications
Mobile Wireless Communications
Advances in Mobile Radio Access Networks
Advances in Mobile Radio Access Networks
Cell-ID Location Technique, Limits and Benefits: An Experimental Study
WMCSA '04 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
Location-based Services: Fundamentals and Operation
Location-based Services: Fundamentals and Operation
Exploiting open functionality in SMS-capable cellular networks
Proceedings of the 12th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
The 3G IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS): Merging the Internet and the Cellular Worlds, Second Edition
The 3G IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS): Merging the Internet and the Cellular Worlds, Second Edition
PinPoint: An Asynchronous Time-Based Location Determination System
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services
Are GSM Phones THE Solution for Localization?
WMCSA '06 Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems & Applications
Robust positioning system based on fingerprint approach
Proceedings of the 5th ACM international workshop on Mobility management and wireless access
Can active tracking of inroamer location optimise a live GSM network?
CoNEXT '07 Proceedings of the 2007 ACM CoNEXT conference
Active GSM cell-id tracking: "Where Did You Disappear?"
Proceedings of the first ACM international workshop on Mobile entity localization and tracking in GPS-less environments
Mitigating attacks on open functionality in SMS-capable cellular networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
EnTracked: energy-efficient robust position tracking for mobile devices
Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
Improving roamer retention by exposing weak locations in GSM networks
Proceedings of the 5th international student workshop on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
AECID fingerprinting positioning performance
GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
Predicting user-cell association in cellular networks from tracked data
MELT'09 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Mobile entity localization and tracking in GPS-less environments
Performance study of active tracking in a cellular network using a modular signaling platform
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
The challenges in large-scale smartphone user studies
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Workshop on Hot Topics in Planet-scale Measurement
An analysis of power consumption in a smartphone
USENIXATC'10 Proceedings of the 2010 USENIX conference on USENIX annual technical conference
Diversity in smartphone energy consumption
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM workshop on Wireless of the students, by the students, for the students
Modelling and Dimensioning of Mobile Wireless Networks: From GSM to LTE
Modelling and Dimensioning of Mobile Wireless Networks: From GSM to LTE
Anonymization of location data does not work: a large-scale measurement study
MobiCom '11 Proceedings of the 17th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Place lab: device positioning using radio beacons in the wild
PERVASIVE'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Pervasive Computing
Evolution of a location-based online social network: analysis and models
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on Internet measurement conference
Detecting overlapping communities in location-based social networks
SocInfo'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Social Informatics
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Tracking of mobile terminals in mobile networks is a technology with growing and diverse applicability. However, this task is non-trivial and might require either terminal or network adjustment and cooperation. Flexible, scalable, and cost-effective means of network-based tracking are highly desirable from the perspective of mobile operators. We present an in-depth overview of a particular method, the SMS-based active tracking, and demonstrate how this lean and non-intrusive approach is applicable to various existing architectures of mobile networks. We show the practicality of this approach by describing our academic proof-of-concept implementation, capable of tracking thousands of users periodically on the scale of minutes. We analyze the limits of active tracking, posed by the various network and terminal constraints (such as connection throughput, mobile network capacity or terminal battery lifetime) and conclude with discussion of its wide and long-term applicability.