Investigation of Privacy Violations In Wi-Fi Band Using Software Defined Radio

Abstract

A radio communication system which is capable of tuning to any frequency band and accepts various modulations through a large frequency spectrum by tactics of a programmable hardware which is controlled by software is called as a software-defined radio (SDR) system. Significant amounts of signal processing in a general purpose computer or a reconfigurable piece of digital electronics can be performed by an SDR. SDR is capable of providing the protocol engineer with wireless testbeds. The advantage which follows due to this flexibility is extremely subjected to the performance and usability of the particular SDR. This study is all about to explore the viability of using GNU Radio (an open source SDR implementation) by way of a testbed to quantify the variations of RSSI values. The major intention of succeeding this research is to contribute an introduction to the comparably new field of Investigation of Privacy Violations in Wi-Fi Band. Even though this exploration in Gesture Recognition Systems that leverages wireless signals (ISM band signal) which has developed within these recent years, there is an encountered issue with lack of research studies previously done regarding privacy violations that can happen through ISM band. Only few number of works exist which distinguish activities practicing this approach.Thus, this study has given an overview over the most important tasks investigating Privacy Violations in Wi-Fi Band. Finally, the discussion is focused on how Privacy Violations in Wi-Fi Band may profit from the current state of research and which kind of challenges need to be addressed.