Title
Secure RSS-Fingerprint-Based Indoor Positioning: Attacks and Countermeasures.
Abstract
indoor positioning systems (IPS) based on RSS fingerprints have received significant attention in recent years, but they are unfortunately vulnerable to RSS attacks that cannot be thwarted by conventional cryptographic means. In this paper, we identify two practical RSS attacks on RSS-fingerprint-based IPS (RSS-IPS). In both attacks, the attacker learns the RSS-fingerprint database at the IPS server by acting as a normal user repeatedly issuing location queries and then impersonates selected APs with fake ones under his control. By carefully tuning the locations and transmission power of fake APs, the attacker is able to control the RSS experienced by victim users at target locations, leading to either a large location error or the IPS server misled into returning a fake location of the attacker's choice. We further design a fingerprint-matching mechanism based on a novel truncated distance metric as the countermeasure. Tracedriven simulation studies based on real RSS measurement data demonstrate the severe impact of the proposed attacks and also the effectiveness of our countermeasure.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security
Countermeasure,Wireless,Computer security,Computer science,Cryptography,Server,Computer network,Metric (mathematics),Fingerprint,RSS
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
2474-025X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lizhou Yuan100.34
Yidan Hu272.52
Yunzhi Li311.36
Rui Zhang400.68
Yanchao Zhang5328.15
Terri Hedgpeth6666.99