DOLOS: Tricking the Wi-Fi APs with Incorrect User Locations
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| author | Arun, Aditya Anand, Vaibhav Sun, Wei Ayyalasomayajula, Roshan Bharadia, Dinesh |
| author_facet | Arun, Aditya Anand, Vaibhav Sun, Wei Ayyalasomayajula, Roshan Bharadia, Dinesh |
| contents | Wi-Fi-based indoor localization has been extensively studied for context-aware services. As a result, the accurate Wi-Fi-based indoor localization introduces a great location privacy threat. However, the existing solutions for location privacy protection are hard to implement on current devices. They require extra hardware deployment in the environment or hardware modifications at the transmitter or receiver side. To this end, we propose DOLOS, a system that can protect the location privacy of the Wi-Fi user with a novel signal obfuscation approach. DOLOSis a software-only solution that can be deployed on existing protocol-compliant Wi-Fi user devices. We provide this obfuscation by invalidating a simple assumption made by most localization systems -- "direct path signal arrives earlier than all the reflections to distinguish this direct path prior to estimating the location". However, DOLOS creates a novel software fix that allows the user to transmit the signal wherein this direct path arrives later, creating ambiguity in the location estimates. Our experimental results demonstrate DOLOS can degrade the localization accuracy of state-of-art systems by 6x for a single AP and 2.5x for multiple AP scenarios, thereby protecting the Wi-Fi user's location privacy without compromising the Wi-Fi communication performance. |
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| spellingShingle | DOLOS: Tricking the Wi-Fi APs with Incorrect User Locations Arun, Aditya Anand, Vaibhav Sun, Wei Ayyalasomayajula, Roshan Bharadia, Dinesh Networking and Internet Architecture Signal Processing Wi-Fi-based indoor localization has been extensively studied for context-aware services. As a result, the accurate Wi-Fi-based indoor localization introduces a great location privacy threat. However, the existing solutions for location privacy protection are hard to implement on current devices. They require extra hardware deployment in the environment or hardware modifications at the transmitter or receiver side. To this end, we propose DOLOS, a system that can protect the location privacy of the Wi-Fi user with a novel signal obfuscation approach. DOLOSis a software-only solution that can be deployed on existing protocol-compliant Wi-Fi user devices. We provide this obfuscation by invalidating a simple assumption made by most localization systems -- "direct path signal arrives earlier than all the reflections to distinguish this direct path prior to estimating the location". However, DOLOS creates a novel software fix that allows the user to transmit the signal wherein this direct path arrives later, creating ambiguity in the location estimates. Our experimental results demonstrate DOLOS can degrade the localization accuracy of state-of-art systems by 6x for a single AP and 2.5x for multiple AP scenarios, thereby protecting the Wi-Fi user's location privacy without compromising the Wi-Fi communication performance. |
| title | DOLOS: Tricking the Wi-Fi APs with Incorrect User Locations |
| topic | Networking and Internet Architecture Signal Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16138 |