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Abstract. With the ever increasing pervasiveness of devices with functionality to provide location based services comes the increased importance and reliance upon those services to provide user privacy and security. Many techniques to facilitate privacy and security in mobile and fixed networks have been developed, but surveys of user's show that this area still has a lot of work left to do to satisfy privacy fears and help developers of such services to choose the best techniques to use. In this paper we propose a security and privacy preserving location based services development framework. The framework will allow for future development, visualisation, comparison and analysis of location based services that preserve security and privacy in order to improve user confidence in such technologies.

Abstract. Developments of seamless mobile services are faced with two broad challenges, systems security and user privacy -access to wireless systems is highly insecure due to the lack of physical boundaries and, secondly, location based services (LBS) could be used to extract highly sensitive user information. In this paper, we describe our work on developing systems which exploit location information to enhance security and services under privacy constraints. We describe two complimentary methods which we have developed to track node location information within production University Campus Networks comprising of large numbers of users. The location data is used to enhance security and services. Specifically, we describe a method for creating geographic firewalls which allows us to restrict and enhance services to individual users within a specific containment area regardless of physical association. We also report our work on LBS development to provide visualization of spatio-temporal node distribution under privacy considerations.

Localisation of a mobile device in Wi-Fi based indoor environments has received much attention and is an important area of research, considering the uptake of devices with built-in Wi-Fi and often blanket coverage in enterprise. Most localisation techniques in this area require an off-line calibration phase where a radio map is manually built using the laborious efforts of administrators. This radio map is then subject to becoming inaccurate with time and requires refreshing as the equipment is upgraded and replaced. We propose a system that can automatically build and calibrate a radio map for use with location fingerprinting techniques to provide indoor and outdoor localisation with Wi-Fi. This system first uses a self-mapping technique that makes use of user roaming patterns to build a weighted undirected graph of Access Point locations. We then combine this initial map with a map built by users of smartphones with built-in Wi-Fi and GPS to generate anchor nodes. We show that the unique combination of these two techniques provides a zero-configuration calibration map for use with location fingerprinting techniques, which not only saves time and effort in the calibration phase, but provides a constantly fine-tuning and self-healing map.