Who Said That? Privacy at Link Layer

Wireless LAN and other radio broadcast technologies are now in full swing. However, the widespread usage of these technologies comes at the price of location privacy, be it by observing the communication patterns or the interface identifiers. Although a number of network level solutions have been pr...

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Main Authors: Armknecht, F., Girao, J., Matos, A., Aguiar, R.L.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Broadcast technology
Communications Society
National electric code
Network address translation
Peer to peer computing
Privacy
Protection
Protocols
Routing
Wireless LAN
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Summary:Wireless LAN and other radio broadcast technologies are now in full swing. However, the widespread usage of these technologies comes at the price of location privacy, be it by observing the communication patterns or the interface identifiers. Although a number of network level solutions have been proposed , this paper describes a novel approach to location privacy at the link layer level. We present a generic mechanism and then map it to a real protocol, IEEE 802.11. The work also provides an analysis of the protocol in terms of privacy and performance considerations.
ISSN:0743-166X
2641-9874
DOI:10.1109/INFCOM.2007.313