Building up knowledge through passive WiFi probes

AEC Redondi, M Cesana - Computer Communications, 2018 - Elsevier
Inexpensive WiFi-capable hardware can be nowadays easily used to capture traffic from end
users and extract knowledge. Such knowledge can be leveraged to support advanced …

The wireless shark: Identifying wifi devices based on probe fingerprints

O Waltari, J Kangasharju - Proceedings of the First Workshop on Mobile …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Due to the broadcast nature of WiFi communication anyone with suitable hardware is able to
monitor surrounding traffic. However, a WiFi device is able to listen to only one channel at …

Pazl: A mobile crowdsensing based indoor WiFi monitoring system

V Radu, L Kriara, MK Marina - Proceedings of the 9th …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
WiFi in indoor environments exhibits spatio-temporal variations in terms of coverage and
interference in typical WLAN deployments with multiple APs, motivating the need for …

Walls have no ears: A non-intrusive WiFi-based user identification system for mobile devices

L Cheng, J Wang - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the development and popularization of WiFi, surfing on the Internet with mobile devices
has become an indispensable part of people's daily life. However, as an infrastructure, WiFi …

A case study of WiFi sniffing performance evaluation

Y Li, J Barthelemy, S Sun, P Perez, B Moran - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile devices regularly broadcast WiFi probe requests in order to discover available
proximal WiFi access points for connection. A probe request, sent automatically in the active …

A privacy-preserving scheme for passive monitoring of people's flows through WiFi beacons

K Gebru - 2022 IEEE 19th Annual Consumer Communications …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The proliferation of IoT-based services for smart cities, and especially those related to
mobility, are ever becoming more relevant and gaining attention from a number of stake …

Edge-based passive crowd monitoring through WiFi Beacons

K Gebru, M Rapelli, R Rusca, C Casetti… - Computer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Tracking people's flows has become crucial, not only for safety and security, but also for
numerous practical business applications and better management of urban spaces, facilities …

Commodity wifi sensing in ten years: Status, challenges, and opportunities

S Tan, Y Ren, J Yang, Y Chen - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The prevalence of WiFi devices and ubiquitous coverage of WiFi networks provide us the
opportunity to extend WiFi capabilities beyond communication, particularly in sensing the …

How can I guard my AP? Non-intrusive user identification for mobile devices using WiFi signals

L Cheng, J Wang - Proceedings of the 17th ACM International …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
With the development and popularization of WiFi, surfing on the Internet with mobile devices
has become an indispensable part of people's daily life. However, as an infrastructure, WiFi …

What WiFi probe requests can tell you

R Rusca, F Sansoldo, C Casetti… - 2023 IEEE 20th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Everyday, as we go about our business in a city, we carry around several devices such as
smartphones, tablets or even laptops, most of them with an active WiFi interface. This …