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Ghostbuster: Detecting the Presence of Hidden Eavesdroppers

Chaman, Anadi
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Wang, Jiaming
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Sun, Jiachen
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2018
MobiCom'18: proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking : October 29-November 2, 2018, New Delhi, India
MobiCom '18

This paper explores the possibility of detecting the hidden presence of wireless eavesdroppers. Such eavesdroppers employ passive receivers that only listen and never transmit any signals making them very hard to detect. In this paper, we show that even passive receivers leak RF signals on the wireless medium. This RF leakage, however, is extremely weak and buried under noise and other transmitted signals that can be 3-5 orders of magnitude larger. Hence, it is missed by today's radios. We design and build Ghostbuster, the first device that can reliably extract this leakage, even when it is buried under ongoing transmissions, in order to detect the hidden presence of eavesdroppers. Ghostbuster does not require any modifications to current transmitters and receivers and can accurately detect the eavesdropper in the presence of ongoing transmissions. Empirical results show that Ghostbuster can detect eavesdroppers with more than 95% accuracy up to 5 meters away.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1145/3241539.3241580
Author(s)
Chaman, Anadi
Wang, Jiaming
Sun, Jiachen
Hassanieh, Haitham  
Roy Choudhury, Romit
Date Issued

2018

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

Publisher place

New York

Published in
MobiCom'18: proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking : October 29-November 2, 2018, New Delhi, India
ISBN of the book

978-1-4503-5903-0

Start page

337

End page

351

Subjects

Wireless

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Security

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Eavesdropper

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MobiCom '18

New Delhi, India

October 29-November 2, 2018

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April 12, 2023
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