I-Corps: Infrastructure-free Security Monitoring and Tracking for Wireless Target (iSMoWT)

拟议研究项目的主要动机和目标是提供新技术，帮助执法部门解决涉及移动设备的犯罪增加的问题，特别是解决在控制松散的无线环境中追踪移动设备的困难。以往的研究结果都显示出良好的效果。该小组认为，在I-Corps的资助下，该系统将得到政府相关部门、产业机构和数字取证公司的广泛研究和整合，从而对改善公共安全产生重大影响。该项目的目标是建立一个无基础设施的无线目标安全监控和跟踪系统（iSMoWT），该系统的重点是通过WiFi网络中的协作无线监控设备收集的信息片段来识别目标移动设备的位置。iSMoWT系统与其他现有的移动设备定位系统的不同之处在于，iSMoWT提供了一种跟踪目标移动设备的方法，而不是基于设备本身内置的GPS和位置传感器执行自定位。此外，iSMoWT不依赖于预先部署的无线基础设施节点（如WiFi接入点和手机运营商的基站）收集的数据。在这个I-Corps项目中，该团队还对探索iSMoWT的其他潜在应用领域感兴趣，例如医疗保健系统和无线网络性能管理系统。

The main motivation and goal for the proposed research project is to provide new techniques that assist law enforcement address the rise in crimes involving mobile devices, particularly tackle the difficulty of tracking down a mobile device in a loosely controlled wireless environment. Previous research results have demonstrated good outcomes. With the support of I-Corps funding, the team believes that the proposed system will be examined and integrated by a large body of related government agencies, industrial institutions, and digital forensics companies, thereby having a great impact on improving public safety in general. The goal of this project is to establish an infrastructure-free security monitoring and tracking system for wireless targets ( iSMoWT) that focuses on identifying the location of a target mobile device with pieces of information gathered by collaborative wireless monitoring devices in a WiFi network. The iSMoWT system differs from other existing mobile device localization systems in that iSMoWT provides a way to track a target mobile device rather than perform self-localization based on the GPS and location sensors built in a device itself. Further, iSMoWT does not rely on the data gathered at pre-deployed wireless infrastructure nodes such as WiFi Access Points and the Base-stations of cellphone carriers. In this I-Corps project, the team is also interested in exploring other potential application fields for iSMoWT, such as health care systems and wireless network performance management systems.