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http://dx.doi.org/10.13089/JKIISC.2017.27.5.1069

Fake GPS Detection for the Online Game Service on Server-Side  

Han, Jaehyeok (Institute of Cyber Security & Privacy (ICSP), Korea University)
Lee, Sangjin (Institute of Cyber Security & Privacy (ICSP), Korea University)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology / v.27, no.5, 2017 , pp. 1069-1076 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently $Pok\acute{e}mon$ GO implements an online game with location-based real time augmented reality on mobile. The correct play of this game should be based on collecting the $Pok\acute{e}mon$ that appears as the user moves around by foot, but as the popularity increases, it appears an abuse to play easily. Many people have used an application that provides a mock location service such as Fake GPS, and these applications can be judged to be cheating in online games because they can play games in the house without moving. Detection of such cheating from a client point of view (mobile device) can consume a large amount of resources, which can reduce the speed of the game. It is difficult for developers to apply detection methods that negatively affect game usage and user's satisfaction. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a method to detect users abusing mock location service in online game by route analysis using GPS location record from the server point of view.
Keywords
GPS spoofing detection; fake GPS; mock location; route analysis;
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