Mobile device detection through WiFi probe request analysis

L Oliveira, D Schneider, J De Souza, W Shen - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… The main contributions of this present study include the following: the design of a WiFi
presence detection device called Sherlock, which is specialized in detecting probe requests; and …

Localization of WiFi devices using probe requests captured at unmanned aerial vehicles

V Acuna, A Kumbhar, E Vattapparamban… - 2017 IEEE wireless …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… based on the measured probe requests, we are interested to identify the zone where the
WiFi device is located. Our experimental results show that the WiFi device can be detected in …

A dataset of labelled device Wi-Fi probe requests for MAC address de-randomization

L Pintor, L Atzori - Computer Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
probe requests from a single device, we verified that the anechoic chamber shielded any
Wi-Fi … We collected probe requests from unknown devices and management packets of the …

Mind your probes: De-anonymization of large crowds through smartphone WiFi probe requests

A Di Luzio, A Mei, J Stefa - IEEE INFOCOM 2016-The 35th …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… the idea of exploiting WiFi probe requests to de-anonymize the … more than 11M of probe
requests collected in scenarios that … called WiFi probe request [1] that our devices periodically …

Efficient association of wi-fi probe requests under mac address randomization

J Tan, SHG Chan - IEEE INFOCOM 2021-IEEE Conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… only three devices. In this paper, we study how to associate probe requests which have …
To illustrate this, we record the probe requests emitted from an iOS device for 24 hours. The …

Location privacy and changes in wifi probe request based connection protocols usage through years

A Dagelić, T Perković, M Čagalj - 2019 4th International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
WiFi connection protocol is Active service discovery (AS). Using AS, WiFi enabled devices
send out Probe request … SSID from users previously used WiFi access points. By using a …

What WiFi probe requests can tell you

R Rusca, F Sansoldo, C Casetti… - 2023 IEEE 20th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… the probe request messages broadcast by wireless devices and we analyze the behaviour
and the characteristics of these messages from different devices… the probe request messages. …

Non-intrusive privacy-preserving approach for presence monitoring based on WiFi probe requests

A Simončič, M Mohorčič, M Mohorčič, A Hrovat - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
… method, which is able to recognize unique devices with high accuracy by grouping similar
network management messages (called Probe Requests, PRs) based on the data in the …

Know thy quality: Assessment of device detection by wifi signals

T Rütermann, A Benabbas… - 2019 IEEE International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… A vast majority of techniques use WiFi probe request frames, which contain the unique MAC
… As a result, we present novel ways to detect devices based on additional WiFi packets that …

[PDF][PDF] Optimizing the Collection and Processing of Wi-Fi Probe Requests

J Brunner - University of Zurich Department of Informatics (IFI) …, 2020 - files.ifi.uzh.ch
Wi-Fi probe requests. The proposed solution reduces the bandwidth requirements of the
capturing devices … of iOS devices, we estimate the number of probe requests that are captured …