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Main Authors: Huang, Pengzhi, Gönültaş, Emre, Arnold, Maximilian, Srinath, K. Pavan, Hoydis, Jakob, Studer, Christoph
Format: Preprint
Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.08291
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author Huang, Pengzhi
Gönültaş, Emre
Arnold, Maximilian
Srinath, K. Pavan
Hoydis, Jakob
Studer, Christoph
author_facet Huang, Pengzhi
Gönültaş, Emre
Arnold, Maximilian
Srinath, K. Pavan
Hoydis, Jakob
Studer, Christoph
contents Localization services for wireless devices play an increasingly important role in our daily lives and a plethora of emerging services and applications already rely on precise position information. Widely used on-device positioning methods, such as the global positioning system, enable accurate outdoor positioning and provide the users with full control over what services and applications are allowed to access their location information. In order to provide accurate positioning indoors or in cluttered urban scenarios without line-of-sight satellite connectivity, powerful off-device positioning systems, which process channel state information (CSI) measured at the infrastructure base stations or access points with deep neural networks, have emerged recently. Such off-device wireless positioning systems inherently link a user's data transmission with its localization, since accurate CSI measurements are necessary for reliable wireless communication -- this not only prevents the users from controlling who can access this information but also enables virtually everyone in the device's range to estimate its location, resulting in serious privacy and security concerns. We therefore propose on-device attacks against off-device wireless positioning systems in multi-antenna orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing systems while remaining standard compliant and minimizing the impact on quality-of-service, and we demonstrate their efficacy using real-world measured datasets for cellular outdoor and wireless LAN indoor scenarios. We also investigate defenses to counter such attack mechanisms, and we discuss the limitations and implications on protecting location privacy in existing and future wireless communication systems.
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spellingShingle Attacking and Defending Deep-Learning-Based Off-Device Wireless Positioning Systems
Huang, Pengzhi
Gönültaş, Emre
Arnold, Maximilian
Srinath, K. Pavan
Hoydis, Jakob
Studer, Christoph
Signal Processing
Information Theory
Localization services for wireless devices play an increasingly important role in our daily lives and a plethora of emerging services and applications already rely on precise position information. Widely used on-device positioning methods, such as the global positioning system, enable accurate outdoor positioning and provide the users with full control over what services and applications are allowed to access their location information. In order to provide accurate positioning indoors or in cluttered urban scenarios without line-of-sight satellite connectivity, powerful off-device positioning systems, which process channel state information (CSI) measured at the infrastructure base stations or access points with deep neural networks, have emerged recently. Such off-device wireless positioning systems inherently link a user's data transmission with its localization, since accurate CSI measurements are necessary for reliable wireless communication -- this not only prevents the users from controlling who can access this information but also enables virtually everyone in the device's range to estimate its location, resulting in serious privacy and security concerns. We therefore propose on-device attacks against off-device wireless positioning systems in multi-antenna orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing systems while remaining standard compliant and minimizing the impact on quality-of-service, and we demonstrate their efficacy using real-world measured datasets for cellular outdoor and wireless LAN indoor scenarios. We also investigate defenses to counter such attack mechanisms, and we discuss the limitations and implications on protecting location privacy in existing and future wireless communication systems.
title Attacking and Defending Deep-Learning-Based Off-Device Wireless Positioning Systems
topic Signal Processing
Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.08291