Service set indentifier geolocation for forensic purposes : Opportunities and challenges

Authors/Creators

Maxim Chernyshev, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Peter Hannay, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Craig ValliFollow

Abstract

We discuss the use of selected passive wireless device fingerprinting and prior location inference techniques from a forensic perspective. With specific focus on 802.11 signals, we examine how fingerprints based on the Preferred Network List (PNL) enumerations can be utilized to obtain the locational dimension. This dimension may act as a bridge between the digital fingerprint and the physical world. Using a data set of 147,944 network names contextualized to a particular geographical area, we discuss the associated opportunities, challenges and limitations.

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Date of Publication

2016

Publication Title

2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)

Publisher

IEEE

School

School of Science

RAS ID

21040

Comments

Chernyshev, M., Valli, C., & Hannay, P. (2016). Service set indentifier geolocation for forensic purposes : Opportunities and challenges. In 2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) (pp.5487-5496). Available here

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