Patent ID: 8792904

Claim:
Apparatus, comprising: a receiver unit, which is configured to monitor one or more control messages that are transmitted from one or more first stations to one or more second stations in a wireless network; a processor, which is configured to select one or more of the first stations based on the monitored control messages, and to create one or more modified messages, which mimic the respective control messages that have been transmitted by the selected first stations while stimulating the second stations receiving the modified messages to induce one or more network events in the wireless network; and a transmitter unit, which is configured to transmit the one or more modified messages so as to stimulate the second stations to induce the network events, wherein transmitting the modified messages comprises transmitting the modified messages at two or more different transmit power levels, and wherein estimating the geographical location comprises determining the geographical location responsively to the monitored network events and the two or more transmit power levels of the transmitter unit.