Cardiff Location Aware Activities, Problems, Aims 3 rd September 08 Anthony Cope Mike Jorgenson

Current – Progress so far Section A - Currently Drafting Documents A1 and A2 Section B - Pilot work in the Information Services Building Work concentrating on LA200 not Ringmaster which also has LA capabilities Received training on the LA200 Increased the density of Access points in building 39 PP Configured location appliance with maps and “Locales” Multiple attempts and failures to correctly profile and fingerprint. Trapeze Engineer Scheduled to visit next week Started to purchase equipment last couple of weeks.

Current – Tools Recent Purchases Phone Nokia N95’s, E71, HTC Touch Diamond All GPS. Eakahau Site Survey for fine tuning Ordered Trapeze RF Tags. Nobody wants to sell us any other type. Bluetooth GPS Dongles Software Development Work is progressing albeit slow due to other commitments – demo to follow.

Current - Problems Practical experiences A1,A2 Regarding deliverables A1 and A2. Problems with getting practical experience of LA have slowed us down a bit but the issues experienced are also useful Practical experiences B1,B2,B3 Progress hampered by inability to correctly calibrate the LA200 Fingerprints

Current - Problems Calibrating and Finger printing All access points need to be on the same channel for calibration. This can be service affecting with interference for users so needs to be done out of hours. Problems having to set all access points to single channel and turn off power management to start with. Very time consuming. Also need to turn off countermeasures as the AP may spend time attacking rogue AP’s and channel scanning for other AP Quick lesson learnt is that although we entered the Wired Mac address of each access point a problem was quickly highlighted that the SSIDs were moving around as each access point have up to 64 MAC addresses for multiple SSIDs. Calibration is set by IP address even though you also need Mac to pinpoint an stop the APs moving on maps as objects. They need to be set as AP’s So IP address of AP cannot ever change without having to recalibrate. Another odd thing in the set up process is having to setup the RF snooping on ringmaster then setup locales on the Dashboard application, finally setuping calibration, drawing locales on the web based users pages. Three Different interfaces! Cutting and pasting each SSID MAC address was also very time consuming.

Current - Problems The need to double and triple check! Check Locals are mapped to correct name of locale Make sure AP’s are mapped to correct local. Make sure all the AP’s are on the correct same channel when calibrating. Make sure the right AP – IP address is placed on the plan in correct place.

Get calibration issues corrected Survey with Eakahau IS building to fine tune accuracy Test WiFi - laptops, GPS Dongles and GPS phones, contrast and compare Speed Accuracy Spoofing Location Location Awareness Future Activities

Investigate the affects of the RF snoop on Location Awareness of : Countermeasures? Active Scanning Mode? Passive Scanning Mode? Channel Scope (Regulatory or Operational)? Location Awareness Future Activities

Stages B1 Look at LA200 API’s to provide information and hooking into a firewall Alternative look at hooking in to Trapeze ACLs to deny access Selective deny access Investigate any other “Off the shelf” equipment that may prove useful for Context security e.g. Newbury Networks RF Firewall, WiFi Watchdog, PanOS etc.

Stages B2 Investigate LA200 for hooking API’s into google earth Push or pull content? May look to purchase Google Earth pro licence

Stages B3 Get hold of WLAN tags for assets tagging. Waiting delivery! Investigate possibilities of location spoofing and how if can be achieved. Investigate other “Off the shelf” equipment and software. Chirping vs Exciters

Google Earth Network Management Demonstration LA200 Interface Availability of Access Points Wired location tracking Wired location awareness