Using location to detect location of network poisoning attacks in Wi-Fi based locationing

摘要

Poisoning attacks are detected and resulting location data is excluded from location-based services. Rogue devices can use a MAC address in a source field of network data packet in order to appear as a trusted station to the access point in order to inject poisonous location data. Responsive to detecting that a change in location is suspicious, the change in location is excluded from the location-based service. Otherwise, the location change can be relied upon for providing the location-based service, as a default operation. Subsequent location-based service is provided by a locationing server using location information from connected stations while excluding suspicious changes in location.