multilateration

English

Etymology

multilateral +‎ -ation

Noun

multilateration (uncountable)

1. The process of finding the position of a broadcast source by measuring its distance from other sources of known location
   • 2016, Silvia Puglisi, David Rebollo-Monedero, Jordi Forné, “Potential mass surveillance and privacy violations in proximity-based social applications”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     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.

Synonyms

• MLat (abbreviation)

Derived terms

• MLat (abbreviation)