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:
      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)
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