Your MAC Address Can be Detected Easily When Your Smartphone Connected to the Wi-Fi

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Title

Your MAC Address Can be Detected Easily When Your Smartphone Connected to the Wi-Fi

Subject

MAC layer data
Time-stamp
RSSI
Smartphone
Wi-Fi tracking system

Description

In this short paper, we prove that smartphones connected to Wi-Fi can be detected (scanned) easily with a Raspberry Pi help. According to the observation, the smartphone eventually broadcasts some packets of data containing MAC layers data. The period of broadcasting data depends on the smartphone’s state (active scanning/sleep). Besides MAC layers data, we also detect/capture other parameters, i.e., wireless signature data transmitted by smartphone (RSSI) and Time-stamp. The RSSI value measured in this test has a range from –30 dBm to –80 dBm. The result proves that different smartphones give different RSSI values (each smartphone emits different power strength). The RSSI value has more significant changes in a short-range (in this test result, 1 to 10 meters) and less significant change in a long-distance (above 20 meters). MAC address, time-stamp, and RSSI scanned/captured successfully through Raspberry Pi from the smartphones can be used as a reference for various purposes/applications in future work, such as Wi-Fi scanning/tracking system.

Creator

Fuada, Syifaul
Rabbani, Raihan Fakhri
Majid, Nuur Wachid Abdul
Prasetiyo, Prasetiyo
Muttaqin, Rahmat
Adiono, Trio
Islam, Shorful

Source

International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM); Vol. 15 No. 07 (2021); pp. 176-184
1865-7923

Publisher

International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria

Date

2021-04-09

Rights

Copyright (c) 2021 Syifaul Fuada, Raihan Fakhri Rabbani, Nuur Wachid Abdul Majid

Relation

Format

application/pdf

Language

eng

Type

info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Non-refereed Article

Identifier

Citation

Syifaul Fuada et al., Your MAC Address Can be Detected Easily When Your Smartphone Connected to the Wi-Fi, International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria, 2021, accessed November 5, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/1831

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