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Location-Based Services (LBSs) provide valuable services, with convenient features for mobile users. However, the location and other information disclosed through each query to the LBS erodes user privacy. This is a concern especially…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Hongyu Jin , Panos Papadimitratos

The Automatic Dependant Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) message scheme was designed without any authentication or encryption of messages in place. It is therefore easily possible to attack it, e.g., by injecting spoofed messages or modifying…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Johanna Ansohn McDougall , Alessandro Brighente , Willi Großmann , Ben Ansohn McDougall , Joshua Stock , Hannes Federrath

The sparsity of millimeter wave (mmWave) channels in the angular and temporal domains is beneficial to channel estimation, while the associated channel parameters can be utilized for localization. However, line-of-sight (LoS) blockage poses…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Kunlun Li , Jiguang He , Mohammed El-Hajjar , Lie-Liang Yang

Existing Location-based social networks (LBSNs), e.g., Foursquare, depend mainly on GPS or cellular-based localization to infer users' locations. However, GPS is unavailable indoors and cellular-based localization provides coarse-grained…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Moustafa Elhamshary , Anas Basalamah , Moustafa Youssef

In this paper, we propose a novel indoor localization scheme that exploits ubiquitous visible lights, which are necessarily and densely deployed in almost all indoor environments. We unveil two phenomena of lights available for positioning:…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-06-03 Yiqing Hu , Yan Xiong , Wenchao Huang , Xiang-Yang Li , Yanan Zhang , Xufei Mao , Panlong Yang , Caimei Wang

Industrial wireless sensor networks are becoming crucial for modern manufacturing. If the sensors in those networks are mobile, the position information, besides the sensor data itself, can be of high relevance. E.g. this position…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Julian Karoliny , Thomas Blazek , Fjolla Ademaj , Hans-Peter Bernhard , Andreas Springer

Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) are expected to effectively create a stand-alone network for secure communication among autonomous agents. In such a dynamic and fast-changing network with high-speed agents, verifying the…

The ability of a sensor node to determine its location in a sensor network is important in many applications. The infrastructure for the location-based services is an easy target for malicious attacks. We address scenarios where malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Bodhibrata Mukhopadhyay , Seshan Srirangarajan , Subrat Kar

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are effective for locating and tracking people and objects in various industrial environments. Since energy consumption is critical to prolonging the lifespan of WSNs, we propose an energy-efficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Kan Zheng , Hang Li , Lei Lei , Wei Xiang , Jian Qiao , Xuemin , Shen

News reports of the last few years indicated that several intelligence agencies are able to monitor large networks or entire portions of the Internet backbone. Such a powerful adversary has only recently been considered by the academic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-09-07 Giuseppe Ateniese , Briland Hitaj , Luigi V. Mancini , Nino V. Verde , Antonio Villani

GNSS receivers are vulnerable to jamming and spoofing attacks, and numerous such incidents have been reported worldwide in the last decade. It is important to detect attacks fast and localize attackers, which can be hard if not impossible…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-02 Glädje Karl Olsson , Erik Axell , Erik G. Larsson , Panos Papadimitratos

With the growing integration of location based services (LBS) such as GPS in mobile devices, indoor position systems (IPS) have become an important role for research. There are several IPS methods such as AOA, TOA, TDOA, which use…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Erick Schmidt , David Akopian

The accurate and low-cost localization of sensors using a wireless sensor network is critically required in a wide range of today's applications. We propose a novel, robust maximum likelihood-type method for distributed cooperative received…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-12 Luca Carlino , Di Jin , Michael Muma , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

Wireless indoor localization using predictive models with received signal strength information (RSSI) requires proper calibration for reliable position estimates. One remedy is to employ synthetic labels produced by a (generally different)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Seonghoon Yoo , Houssem Sifaou , Sangwoo Park , Joonhyuk Kang , Osvaldo Simeone

This paper proposes a new privacy-enhancing, context-aware user authentication system, ConSec, which uses a transformation of general location-sensitive data, such as GPS location, barometric altitude and noise levels, collected from the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Pradip Mainali , Carlton Shepherd , Fabien A. P. Petitcolas

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) support data collection and distributed data processing by means of very small sensing devices that are easy to tamper and cloning: therefore classical security solutions based on access control and strong…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-04 Nicola Gatti , Mattia Monga , Sabrina Sicari

Location data privacy has become a serious concern for users as Location Based Services (LBSs) have become an important part of their life. It is possible for malicious parties having access to geolocation data to learn sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Alban Héon , Ryan Sheatsley , Quinn Burke , Blaine Hoak , Eric Pauley , Yohan Beugin , Patrick McDaniel

For Cyper-Physical Production Systems (CPPS), localization is becoming increasingly important as wireless and mobile devices are considered an integral part. While localizing targets in a wireless communication system based on the Received…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Thomas Blazek , Julian Karoliny , Fjolla Ademaj , Hans-Peter Bernhard

This paper addresses an uplink localization problem in which the base station (BS) aims to locate a remote user with the aid of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). This paper proposes a strategy in which the user transmits pilots over…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-23 Zhongze Zhang , Tao Jiang , Wei Yu

Sixth-Generation (6G) wireless networks aim to support innovative Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications that demand faster and more secure data transmission. While higher Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) layers employ measures like…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Dimitris Kompostiotis , Dimitris Vordonis , Vassilis Paliouras , George C. Alexandropoulos