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The proliferation of sensitive information being stored online highlights the pressing need for secure and efficient user authentication methods. To address this issue, this paper presents a novel zero-effort two-factor authentication (2FA)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Ali Abdullah S. AlQahtani , Thamraa Alshayeb

The goal of this note is to assess whether simple machine learning algorithms can be used to determine whether and how a given network has been attacked. The procedure is based on the $k$-Nearest Neighbor and the Random Forest…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-30 Davide Coppes , Paolo Cermelli

Assessing wireless coverage is a fundamental task for public network operators and private deployments, whose goal is to guarantee quality of service across the network while minimizing material waste and energy consumption. These maps are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Mattia Merluzzi , Giuseppe Di Poce , Paolo Di Lorenzo

Intrusion detection has become one of the most critical tasks in a wireless network to prevent service outages that can take long to fix. The sheer variety of anomalous events necessitates adopting cognitive anomaly detection methods…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-19 Nistha Tandiya , Ahmad Jauhar , Vuk Marojevic , Jeffrey H. Reed

Radio-frequency (RF) signals enabled wireless information and power transfer (WIPT) is a cost-effective technique to achieve two-way communications and at the same time provide energy supplies for low-power wireless devices. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Yuan Liu , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

Ultra-wideband (UWB) is the state-of-the-art and most popular technology for wireless localization. Nevertheless, precise ranging and localization in non-line-of-sight (NLoS) conditions is still an open research topic. Indeed, multipath…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Simone Angarano , Vittorio Mazzia , Francesco Salvetti , Giovanni Fantin , Marcello Chiaberge

Jamming attacks could cause severe damage to Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Once jamming attack occurs, the most urgent work is to get the position information of the jammer. Then safety measures to eliminate the jamming effects can be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Sheng Wang , Chunliang Chu

Accurately analyzing graph properties of social networks is a challenging task because of access limitations to the graph data. To address this challenge, several algorithms to obtain unbiased estimates of properties from few samples via a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Kazuki Nakajima , Kazuyuki Shudo

Wi-Fi signals-based person identification attracts increasing attention in the booming Internet-of-Things era mainly due to its pervasiveness and passiveness. Most previous work applies gaits extracted from WiFi distortions caused by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-22 Fei Wang , Jinsong Han , Feng Lin , Kui Ren

Device-Free Localization (DFL) employs passive radio techniques capable to detect and locate people without imposing them to wear any electronic device. By exploiting the Integrated Sensing and Communication paradigm, DFL networks employ…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 Vittorio Rampa , Federica Fieramosca , Stefano Savazzi , Michele D'Amico

Recent work in traffic analysis has shown that traffic patterns leaked through side channels can be used to recover important semantic information. For instance, attackers can find out which website, or which page on a website, a user is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-09-02 Xun Gong , Negar Kiyavash , Nabíl Schear , Nikita Borisov

The problem of mapping human close-range proximity networks has been tackled using a variety of technical approaches. Wearable electronic devices, in particular, have proven to be particularly successful in a variety of settings relevant…

Through-the-wall radar (TWR) human activity recognition can be achieved by fusing micro-Doppler signature extraction and intelligent decision-making algorithms. However, limited by the insufficient priori of tester in practical indoor…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-11 Xiaopeng Yang , Weicheng Gao , Xiaodong Qu , Haoyu Meng

With the rapid development of wireless communication technology, wireless access points (AP) and internet of things (IoT) devices have been widely deployed in our surroundings. Various types of wireless signals (e.g., Wi-Fi, LoRa, LTE) are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Zheng Yang , Yi Zhang , Guoxuan Chi , Guidong Zhang

The popularity of mobile devices and location-based services (LBS) has created great concern regarding the location privacy of their users. Anonymization is a common technique that is often used to protect the location privacy of LBS users.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-23 Zarrin Montazeri , Amir Houmansadr , Hossein Pishro-Nik

We report on a data-driven investigation aimed at understanding the dynamics of message spreading in a real-world dynamical network of human proximity. We use data collected by means of a proximity-sensing network of wearable sensors that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-08-09 André Panisson , Alain Barrat , Ciro Cattuto , Wouter Van den Broeck , Giancarlo Ruffo , Rossano Schifanella

The self-avoiding random walk (SARW) is a stochastic process whose state variable avoids returning to previously visited states. This non-Markovian feature has turned SARWs a powerful tool for modelling a plethora of relevant aspects in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-25 Gaia Colombani , Giulia Bertagnolli , Oriol Artime

Wi-Fi-based indoor localization has been extensively studied for context-aware services. As a result, the accurate Wi-Fi-based indoor localization introduces a great location privacy threat. However, the existing solutions for location…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Aditya Arun , Vaibhav Anand , Wei Sun , Roshan Ayyalasomayajula , Dinesh Bharadia

Recently, round-trip time (RTT) measured by a fine-timing measurement protocol has received great attention in the area of WiFi positioning. It provides an acceptable ranging accuracy in favorable environments when a line-of-sight (LOS)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Kyuwon Han , Seung Min Yu , Seong-Lyun Kim , Seung-Woo Ko

Tor provides low-latency anonymous and uncensored network access against a local or network adversary. Due to the design choice to minimize traffic overhead (and increase the pool of potential users) Tor allows some information about the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Shuai Li , Huajun Guo , Nicholas Hopper