Multilateration

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The process of finding the position of a broadcast source by measuring its distance from other sources of known location uncountable

    "We analyse a set of popular dating application that shares users relative distances within a certain radius and show how, by using the information shared on these platforms, it is possible to formalise a multilateration attack, able to identify the user actual position."

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"We analyse a set of popular dating application that shares users relative distances within a certain radius and show how, by using the information shared on these platforms, it is possible to formalise a multilateration attack, able to identify the user actual position."

Etymology

From multilateral + -ation.

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