Analysis of wi-fi probe requests towards information element fingerprinting

L Pintor, L Atzori - GLOBECOM 2022-2022 IEEE Global …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the past decade, several algorithms have been proposed to monitor people's mobility
based on the analysis of management messages generated by Wi-Fi devices and which rely …

Self-supervised association of Wi-Fi probe requests under MAC address randomization

T He, J Tan, SHG Chan - IEEE Transactions on Mobile …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wi-Fi-on devices such as smartphones search for network availability by periodically
broadcasting probe requests which encapsulate MAC addresses as device identifiers. To …

Bleach: From WiFi probe-request signatures to MAC association

AK Mishra, AC Viana, N Achir - Ad Hoc Networks, 2024 - Elsevier
Smartphones or similar WiFi-enabled devices regularly discover nearby access points by
broadcasting management frames known as probe-requests. Probe-request frames relay, as …

Probing for Passwords–Privacy Implications of SSIDs in Probe Requests

J Ansohn McDougall, C Burkert, D Demmler… - … Conference on Applied …, 2022 - Springer
Probe requests help mobile devices discover active Wi-Fi networks. They often contain a
multitude of data that can be used to identify and track devices and thereby their users. The …

Introducing benchmarks for evaluating user-privacy vulnerability in WiFi

AK Mishra, AC Viana, N Achir - 2023 IEEE 97th Vehicular …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
WiFi-based crowdsensing is a major source of data in a variety of domains such as human-
mobility, pollution-level estimation, and, opportunistic networks. MAC randomisation is a …

Performance analysis of a privacy-preserving frame sniffer on a Raspberry Pi

FD de Mello Silva, AK Mishra, AC Viana… - 2022 6th Cyber …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Public Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11) networks are an abundant data source that may serve different
applications such as epidemic tracking and prevention, disaster response, crowdsensing, or …

Proposal for Low-Layer Metadata Collection Technology to Enhance IoT Metadata Utilization

R Shiina, S Tamaki, C Huang, T Hatano… - IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rapid spread of Internet of Things (IoT) services, the number of sensor devices has
exploded, and the complexity of managing sensor devices has become a problem. To solve …

Revealing and exploiting privacy vulnerabilities in users' public wireless packets

AK Mishra - 2023 - theses.hal.science
The increasing proliferation of Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) and BluetoothLow Energy (BLE)
networked devices broadcasting over-the-air unencryptedpublic packets has raised growing …

De-Randomization of MAC Addresses Using Fingerprints and RSSI with ML for Wi-Fi Analytics

A Pérez-Hernández, MN Barreras-Martín… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Media Access Control (MAC) address randomization causes significant distortion and data
loss in Wi-Fi analytics systems, becoming a real challenge for building services based on …

Reduce to the MACs-Privacy Friendly Generic Probe Requests

JA McDougall, A Brighente, A Kunstmann… - … Conference on ICT …, 2024 - Springer
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) …