Design and Large-Scale Evaluation of WiFi Proximity Metrics

Konferenz: European Wireless 2018 - 24th European Wireless Conference
02.05.2018 - 04.05.2018 in Catania, Italy

Tagungsband: European Wireless 2018

Seiten: 6Sprache: EnglischTyp: PDF

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Autoren:
Fakhreddine, Aymen (IMDEA Networks Institute & University Carlos III of Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
Tippenhauer, Nils Ole (Singapore University of Technology and Design)
Giustiniano, Domenico (IMDEA Networks Institute, Madrid, Spain)

Inhalt:
We study the problem of deriving proximity metrics based on WiFi fingerprints without the need of external sensors and access to the locations of APs. Applications that benefit from proximity metrics are movement estimation of a single node over time, WiFi fingerprint matching for localization systems and attacks on privacy. Using a large-scale, real-world WiFi fingerprint data set consisting of 200,000 fingerprints resulting from a large deployment of wearable WiFi sensors, we show that metrics from related work perform poorly on real-world data. We analyze the cause for this poor performance, and show that imperfect observations of APs in the neighborhood are the root cause. We then propose improved metrics to provide such proximity estimates, without requiring knowledge of location for the observed AP. Our metrics allow to derive a relative distance estimate based on two observed WiFi fingerprints. We demonstrate that their performance is superior to the related work metrics.