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An Overview of Wireless Indoor Positioning Systems: Techniques, Security, and Countermeasures

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The interest in Indoor position systems (IPSs) had been widely increased recently, due to technological advancement. IPSs provide users with location information of various objects inside big buildings, typically using a mobile device. Different wireless technologies are available to provide location service such RF, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Visible Light Communication (VLC), etc. IPSs mainly determine the position by analyzing sensory information which is collected by mobile device continuously on real time, unless the user turned off the service. Various services and security issues had been associated with IPSs. Secure positioning become more important and crucial to the success of the delivered service. Location service network that based on off-air signal measurement is susceptible to numerous attacks (e.g. wormhole, sinkhole and Sybil attacks). This paper aims to provide an integrated view of IPSs, technologies and associated security threats that face such positioning systems. The paper compares different wireless indoor position technologies, explore potential attacks, and evaluate IPS protection mechanism.

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    Mouna S. Chebli, Heba Mohammad & Khalifa Al Amer

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Chebli, M.S., Mohammad, H., Amer, K.A. (2019). An Overview of Wireless Indoor Positioning Systems: Techniques, Security, and Countermeasures. In: Montella, R., Ciaramella, A., Fortino, G., Guerrieri, A., Liotta, A. (eds) Internet and Distributed Computing Systems . IDCS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11874. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34914-1_22

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