Publication detail

Exploration of User Privacy in 802.11 Probe Requests with MAC Address Randomization Using Temporal Pattern Analysis

BRAVENEC, T. TORRES-SOSPEDRA, J. GOULD, M. FRÝZA, T.

Original Title

Exploration of User Privacy in 802.11 Probe Requests with MAC Address Randomization Using Temporal Pattern Analysis

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

Wireless networks have become an integral part of our daily lives and lately there is increased concern about privacy and protecting the identity of individual users. In this paper we address the evolution of privacy measures in Wi-Fi probe request frames. We focus on the lack of privacy measures before the implementation of MAC Address Randomization, and on the way anti-tracking measures evolved throughout the last decade. We do not try to reverse MAC address randomization to get the real ad-dress of the device, but instead analyse the possibility of further tracking/localization without needing the real MAC address of the specific users. To gain better analysis results, we introduce temporal pattern matching approach to identification of devices using randomized MAC addresses.

Keywords

MAC randomization; temporal analysis; privacy; tracking; probe requests

Authors

BRAVENEC, T.; TORRES-SOSPEDRA, J.; GOULD, M.; FRÝZA, T.

Released

22. 6. 2022

ISBN

978-1-907075-02-5

Book

Proc of 17th International Conference on Location Based Services

Pages from

1

Pages to

10

Pages count

10

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT178311,
  author="Tomáš {Bravenec} and Joaquín {Torres-Sospedra} and Michael {Gould} and Tomáš {Frýza}",
  title="Exploration of User Privacy in 802.11 Probe Requests with MAC Address Randomization Using Temporal Pattern Analysis",
  booktitle="Proc of 17th International Conference on Location Based Services",
  year="2022",
  pages="1--10",
  doi="10.48550/arXiv.2206.10927",
  isbn="978-1-907075-02-5"
}