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Recent advances in human mobility research have revealed consistent pairwise characteristics in movement behavior, yet existing mobility models often overlook the spatial and topological structure of mobility networks. By analyzing millions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-22 Lu Zhong , Lei Dong , Qi Wang , Chaoming Song , Jianxi Gao

Sharing trajectories is beneficial for many real-world applications, such as managing disease spread through contact tracing and tailoring public services to a population's travel patterns. However, public concern over privacy and data…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Teddy Cunningham , Graham Cormode , Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu , Divesh Srivastava

Macroscopic mobility of wireless users is important to determine the performance and energy effciency of a wireless network, because of the temporal correlations it introduces in the consumed power and throughput. In this work we introduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Aris L. Moustakas , Luca Sanguinetti , Mérouane Debbah

In this paper, we present a multidimensional, highly effective method for aggregating data for wireless sensor networks while maintaining privacy. The suggested system is resistant to data loss and secure against both active and passive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Ayush Rastogi , Harsh Rastogi , Yash Rastogi , Divyansh Dubey

WiFi-based human activity recognition (HAR) holds significant application potential across various fields. To handle dynamic environments where new activities are continuously introduced, WiFi-based HAR systems must adapt by learning new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Rong Li , Tao Deng , Siwei Feng , Mingjie Sun , Juncheng Jia

We demonstrated a simple technique for monitoring range variation with millimeter-precision between two remote sites using off-the-shelf wireless communication modules. The need for the flexible positioning of wireless devices is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-31 Bhola R. Panta , Kohta Kido , Satoshi Yasuda , Yuko Hanado , Seiji Kawamura , Hiroshi Hanado , Kenichi Takizawa , Masugi Inoue , Nobuyasu Shiga

Sensitive inferences and user re-identification are major threats to privacy when raw sensor data from wearable or portable devices are shared with cloud-assisted applications. To mitigate these threats, we propose mechanisms to transform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Mohammad Malekzadeh , Richard G. Clegg , Andrea Cavallaro , Hamed Haddadi

The ability to perform computation on devices, such as smartphones, cars, or other nodes present at the Internet of Things leads to constraints regarding bandwidth, storage, and energy, as most of these devices are mobile and operate on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Natascha Harth , Hans-Joerg Voegel , Kostas Kolomvatsos , Christos Anagnostopoulos

In this paper, we propose a methodology for estimating the crowd speed using WiFi devices without relying on people to carry any device. Our approach not only enables speed estimation in the region where WiFi links are, but also in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-01 Saandeep Depatla , Yasamin Mostofi

Due to the openness of the wireless medium, smartphone users are susceptible to user privacy attacks, where user privacy information is inferred from encrypted Wi-Fi wireless traffic. Existing attacks are limited to recognizing mobile apps…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Yong Huang , Zhibo Dong , Xiaoguang Yang , Dalong Zhang , Qingxian Wang , Zhihua Wang

We study the problem of tracking an object moving through a network of wireless sensors. In order to conserve energy, the sensors may be put into a sleep mode with a timer that determines their sleep duration. It is assumed that an asleep…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-02-07 Jason A. Fuemmeler , George K. Atia , Venugopal V. Veeravalli

This paper investigates the problem of forecasting multivariate aggregated human mobility while preserving the privacy of the individuals concerned. Differential privacy, a state-of-the-art formal notion, has been used as the privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Héber H. Arcolezi , Jean-François Couchot , Denis Renaud , Bechara Al Bouna , Xiaokui Xiao

As "Big Data" has become pervasive, an increasing amount of research has connected the dots between human behaviour in the offline and online worlds. Consequently, researchers have exploited these new findings to create models that better…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Marco De Nadai , Bruno Lepri , Nuria Oliver

The data heterogeneity across devices and the limited communication resources, e.g., bandwidth and energy, are two of the main bottlenecks for wireless federated learning (FL). To tackle these challenges, we first devise a novel FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Zhixiong Chen , Wenqiang Yi , Arumugam Nallanathan , Geoffrey Ye Li

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

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) has been extensively researched in past years particularly with regard to range-based or visual-based sensors. Instead of deploying dedicated devices that use visual features, it is more…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Ran Liu , Sumudu Hasala Marakkalage , Madhushanka Padmal , Thiruketheeswaran Shaganan , Chau Yuen , Yong Liang Guan , U-Xuan Tan

Social groups give the opportunity for a new form of caching. In this paper, we investigate how a social group of users can jointly optimize bandwidth usage, by each caching parts of the data demand, and then opportunistically share these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Mohammed Karmoose , Martina Cardone , Christina Fragouli

Wireless networks have become an integral part of our daily lives and lately there is increased concern about privacy and protecting the identity of individual users. In this paper we address the evolution of privacy measures in Wi-Fi probe…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Tomas Bravenec , Joaquín Torres-Sospedra , Michael Gould , Tomas Fryza

We propose a novel computational method to extract information about interactions among individuals with different behavioral states in a biological collective from ordinary video recordings. Assuming that individuals are acting as finite…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Hiroki Sayama , Farnaz Zamani Esfahlani , Ali Jazayeri , J. Scott Turner

AI-based sensing at wireless edge devices has the potential to significantly enhance Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, particularly for vision and perception tasks such as in autonomous driving and environmental monitoring. AI…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Mohamed Seif , Malcolm Egan , Andrea J. Goldsmith , H. Vincent Poor