Secure Crowdsourced Indoor Positioning Systems

Tao Li; Yimin Chen; Rui Zhang; Yanchao Zhang; Terri Hedgpeth

doi:10.1109/INFOCOM.2018.8486398

Secure Crowdsourced Indoor Positioning Systems

Tao Li, Yimin Chen, Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang, Terri Hedgpeth

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Abstract

Indoor positioning systems (IPSes) can enable many location-based services in large indoor environments where GPS is not available or reliable. Mobile crowdsourcing is widely advocated as an effective way to construct IPS maps. This paper presents the first systematic study of security issues in crowd-sourced WiFi-based IPSes to promote security considerations in designing and deploying crowdsourced IPSes. We identify three attacks on crowdsourced WiFi-based IPSes and propose the corresponding countermeasures. The efficacy of the attacks and also our countermeasures are experimentally validated on a prototype system. The attacks and countermeasures can be easily extended to other crowdsourced IPSes.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	INFOCOM 2018 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	1034-1042
Number of pages	9
Volume	2018-April
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538641286
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOM.2018.8486398
State	Published - Oct 8 2018
Event	2018 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, INFOCOM 2018 - Honolulu, United States Duration: Apr 15 2018 → Apr 19 2018

Other

Other	2018 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, INFOCOM 2018
Country	United States
City	Honolulu
Period	4/15/18 → 4/19/18

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Science(all)
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Li, T, Chen, Y, Zhang, R, Zhang, Y & Hedgpeth, T 2018, Secure Crowdsourced Indoor Positioning Systems. in INFOCOM 2018 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications. vol. 2018-April, 8486398, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 1034-1042, 2018 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, INFOCOM 2018, Honolulu, United States, 4/15/18. https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOM.2018.8486398

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