Rogue Wi-Fi Access Point Triangulation

A rogue or "evil-twin" access point is one of the most common wireless attack surfaces — an unauthorized radio planted inside or near a building to lure clients away from the legitimate network. This simulator visualizes the defensive countermeasure: a distributed Wireless Intrusion Detection System (WIDS) of five fixed sensors, each measuring the rogue transmitter's received signal strength (RSSI) and converting it to a distance estimate through the log-distance path-loss model. The system then multilaterates those noisy distance estimates via least squares to pinpoint the intruder's real-world position, exactly as commercial WIDS/WIPS appliances do before triggering automatic containment. Adjust the path-loss exponent and fading noise to see how environment and interference degrade localization accuracy, and drag the rogue AP around the floor plan to watch sensors drop below the detection threshold near the edges of coverage.