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This paper studies the impact of mobility on the power consumption of wireless networks. With increasing mobility, we show that the network should dedicate a non negligible fraction of the useful rate to estimate the different degrees of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-07 Vineeth S Varma , Merouane Debbah , Samson Lasaulce , Salah Eddine Elayoubi

Understanding human mobility is essential for the development of smart cities and social behavior research. Human mobility models may be used in numerous applications, including pandemic control, urban planning, and traffic management. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Yisheng Alison Zheng , Amani Abusafia , Abdallah Lakhdari , Shing Tai Tony Lui , Athman Bouguettaya

As broadband Internet speeds continue to increase, the home wireless ("WiFi") network may more frequently become a performance bottleneck. Past research, now nearly a decade old, initially documented this phenomenon through indirect…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Ranya Sharma , Marc Richardson , Guilherme Martins , Nick Feamster

Human mobility plays a critical role in urban planning and policy-making. However, at certain spatial and temporal resolutions, it is very challenging to track, for example, job and housing mobility. In this study, we explore the usage of a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Yawen Zhang , Seth Spielman , Qi Liu , Si Shen , Jason Shuo Zhang , Qin Lv

Smartphones and portable devices have become ubiquitous and part of everyone's life. Due to the fact of its portability, these devices are perfect to record individuals' traces and life-logging generating vast amounts of data at low costs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Thiago Andrade , João Gama

WiFi sensing has emerged as a compelling contactless modality for human activity monitoring by capturing fine-grained variations in Channel State Information (CSI). Its ability to operate continuously and non-intrusively while preserving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Guozhen Zhu , Yuqian Hu , Weihang Gao , Wei-Hsiang Wang , Beibei Wang , K. J. Ray Liu

Imagine a map of your home with all of your connected devices (computers, TVs, voice control devices, printers, security cameras, etc.), in their location. You could then easily group devices into user-profiles, monitor Wi-Fi quality and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Yonatan Vaizman , Hongcheng Wang

Device-free human tracking is an essential ingredient for ubiquitous wireless sensing. Recent passive WiFi tracking systems face the challenges of inaccurate separation of dynamic human components and time-consuming estimation of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Zhongqin Wang , J. Andrew Zhang , Min Xu , Y. Jay Guo

The advancement of next-generation Wi-Fi technology heavily relies on sensing capabilities, which play a pivotal role in enabling sophisticated applications. In response to the growing demand for large-scale deployments, contemporary Wi-Fi…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-29 Yuxuan Liu , Chiya Zhang , Yifeng Yuan , Chunlong He , Weizheng Zhang , Gaojie Chen

Location tags are designed to track personal belongings. Nevertheless, there has been anecdotal evidence that location tags are also misused to stalk people. Tracking is achieved locally, e.g., via Bluetooth with a paired phone, and…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Hazem Ibrahim , Rohail Asim , Matteo Varvello , Yasir Zaki

Data on human spatial distribution and movement is essential for understanding and analyzing social systems. However existing sources for this data are lacking in various ways; difficult to access, biased, have poor geographical or temporal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Mark Dredze , Manuel García-Herranz , Alex Rutherford , Gideon Mann

The past years have witnessed increasing research interest in achieving passive human localization with commodity WiFi devices. However, due to the fundamental limited spatial resolution of WiFi signals, it is still very difficult to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-01 Ganlin Zhang , Dongheng Zhang , Ying He , Jinbo Chen , Fang Zhou , Yan Chen

In this paper, we present Wi-Mose, the first 3D moving human pose estimation system using commodity WiFi. Previous WiFi-based works have achieved 2D and 3D pose estimation. These solutions either capture poses from one perspective or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Yiming Wang , Lingchao Guo , Zhaoming Lu , Xiangming Wen , Shuang Zhou , Wanyu Meng

In the post year 2000 era the technologies that facilitate human communication have rapidly multiplied. While the adoption of these technologies has hugely impacted the behaviour and sociality of people, specifically in urban but also in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-16 Kunal Bhattacharya , Kimmo Kaski

Advances in wireless localization techniques aiming to exploit context-dependent data has been leading to a growing interest in services able of localizing or tracking targets inside buildings with high accuracy and precision. Hence, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Fabien Geyer , Thomas Multerer , Paulo Mendes , Dominic Schupke

Privacy issues related to video camera feeds have led to a growing need for suitable alternatives that provide functionalities such as user authentication, activity classification and tracking in a noninvasive manner. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Vinoj Jayasundara , Hirunima Jayasekara , Tharaka Samarasinghe , Kasun T. Hemachandra

WiFi Channel State Information (CSI) has shown promise for single-person gait identification, with numerous studies reporting high accuracy. However, multi-person identification remains largely unexplored, with the limited existing work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Oliver Custance , Saad Khan , Simon Parkinson

Our understanding of gender differences in mobility is marked by a clear tension: surveys portray women's movements as more complex than men's, while digital traces suggest less diverse travel. Here, we resolve the contradiction by modeling…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-02 Sílvia de Sojo , Sune Lehmann , Laura Alessandretti

Knowledge of Wi-Fi networks helps to guide future engineering and spectrum policy decisions. However, due to its unlicensed nature, the deployment of Wi-Fi Access Points is undocumented meaning researchers are left making educated guesses…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Edward J Oughton , Julius Kusuma , Thibault Peyronel , Jon Crowcroft

The focus on privacy-related measures regarding wireless networks grew in last couple of years. This is especially important with technologies like Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, which are all around us and our smartphones use them not just for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Tomas Bravenec , Joaquín Torres-Sospedra , Michael Gould , Tomas Fryza
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