multilateration
nounEtymology From multilateral + -ation.
1
The process of finding the position of a broadcast source by measuring its distance from other sources of known location
- We analyse a set of popular dating application that shares users relative distances within a certain radius and show how, by using the information shared on these platforms, it is possible to formalise a multilateration attack, able to identify the user actual position.2016, Silvia Puglisi, David Rebollo-Monedero, Jordi Forné, “Potential mass surveillance and privacy violations in proximity-based social applications”, in arXiv:
- Synonyms
- MLat
- Derived terms
- MLat
- Related terms
- trilateration