Wireless networks have become an integral part of our daily lives and lately there is
increased concern about privacy and protecting the identity of individual users. In this paper …

MAC address randomization is a common privacy protection measure deployed in major
operating systems today. It is used to prevent user-tracking with probe requests that are …

The focus on privacy-related measures regarding wireless networks grew in last couple of
years. This is especially important with technologies like Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, which are all …

Since the introduction of active discovery in Wi-Fi networks, users can be tracked via their
probe requests. Although manufacturers typically try to conceal Media Access Control (MAC) …

Wi-Fi-on devices such as smartphones search for network availability by periodically
broadcasting probe requests which encapsulate MAC addresses as device identifiers. To …

Wi-Fi has imposed itself as one of the key radio technology in portable devices such as
smartphones, tablets, and other wearable devices. Because they periodically scan for …

The IEEE 802.11 standard defines Wi-Fi probe requests as a active mechanism with which
mobile devices can request information from access points and accelerate the Wi-Fi …

Modern data communication paradigm involves many unsolicited data transmissions that
poses privacy issues given the proliferation of big data and artificial intelligence (AI). In 802 …

Broadcasted WiFi traffic of mobile devices is the foundation of several estimation techniques
like location tracking or crowd counting. Many pervasive applications use these techniques …

Until recently Wi-Fi-based user profiling and passive surveillance of the public was straight
forward and caused therefore huge privacy concerns. Here Wi-Fi probe request bursts …