Research Article
Localization to Enhance Security and Services in Wi-Fi Networks under Privacy Constraints
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-11284-3_18, author={Gareth Ayres and Rashid Mehmood and Keith Mitchell and Nicholas Race}, title={Localization to Enhance Security and Services in Wi-Fi Networks under Privacy Constraints}, proceedings={Communications Infrastructure. Systems and Applications in Europe. First International ICST Conference, EuropeComm 2009, London, UK, August 11-13, 2009, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={EUROPECOMM}, year={2012}, month={5}, keywords={Location-Awareness Security Privacy Visualisation Wireless Networks}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-11284-3_18} }- Gareth Ayres
Rashid Mehmood
Keith Mitchell
Nicholas Race
Year: 2012
Localization to Enhance Security and Services in Wi-Fi Networks under Privacy Constraints
EUROPECOMM
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11284-3_18
Abstract
Developments of seamless mobile services are faced with two broad challenges, systems security and user privacy - access to wireless systems is highly insecure due to the lack of physical boundaries and, secondly, location based services (LBS) could be used to extract highly sensitive user information. In this paper, we describe our work on developing systems which exploit location information to enhance security and services under privacy constraints. We describe two complimentary methods which we have developed to track node location information within production University Campus Networks comprising of large numbers of users. The location data is used to enhance security and services. Specifically, we describe a method for creating geographic firewalls which allows us to restrict and enhance services to individual users within a specific containment area regardless of physical association. We also report our work on LBS development to provide visualization of spatio-temporal node distribution under privacy considerations.
