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Fingerprint-based localization improves the positioning performance in challenging, non-line-of-sight (NLoS) dominated indoor environments. However, fingerprinting models require an expensive life-cycle management including recording and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Maximilian Stahlke , George Yammine , Tobias Feigl , Bjoern M. Eskofier , Christopher Mutschler

Motion sensors (e.g., accelerometers) on smartphones have been demonstrated to be a powerful side channel for attackers to spy on users' inputs on touchscreen. In this paper, we reveal another motion accelerometer-based attack which is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-05-25 Jingyu Hua , Zhenyu Shen , Sheng Zhong

Inferring the location of a mobile device in an indoor setting is an open problem of utmost significance. A leading approach that does not require the deployment of expensive infrastructure is fingerprinting, where a classifier is trained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Erez Peterfreund , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis , Ariel Jaffe

Low-latency localization is critical in cellular networks to support real-time applications requiring precise positioning. In this paper, we propose a distributed machine learning (ML) framework for fingerprint-based localization tailored…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Manish Kumar , Tzu-Hsuan Chou , Byunghyun Lee , Nicolò Michelusi , David J. Love , Yaguang Zhang , James V. Krogmeier

Mobile crowdsourced sensing (MCS) is a new paradigm which takes advantage of the pervasive smartphones to efficiently collect data, enabling numerous novel applications. To achieve good service quality for a MCS application, incentive…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-25 Dong Zhao , Xiang-Yang Li , Huadong Ma

For data sets retrieved from wireless sensors to be insightful, it is often of paramount importance that the data be accurate and also location stamped. This paper describes a maximum-likelihood based multihop localization algorithm called…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-02-09 CamLy Nguyen , Orestis Georgiou , Yusuke Doi

Location awareness in wireless networks may enable many applications such as emergency services, autonomous driving and geographic routing. Although there are many available positioning techniques, none of them is adapted to work with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Vladimir Savic , Erik G. Larsson

The next-generation internet of things (IoT) systems have an increasingly demand on intelligent localization which can scale with big data without human perception. Thus, traditional localization solutions without accuracy metric will…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-10 You Li , Zhe He , Zhouzheng Gao , Yuan Zhuang , Chuang Shi , Naser El-Sheimy

Crowdsourcing enables the fine-grained characterization and performance evaluation of today's large-scale networks using the power of the masses and distributed intelligence. This paper presents SmartProbe, a system that assesses the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Enrico Gregori , Alessandro Improta , Luciano Lenzini , Valerio Luconi , Nilo Redini , Alessio Vecchio

Accurate localization of mobile terminals is crucial for integrated sensing and communication systems. Existing fingerprint localization methods, which deduce coordinates from channel information in pre-defined rectangular areas, struggle…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Bohao Wang , Fenghao Zhu , Mengbing Liu , Chongwen Huang , Qianqian Yang , Ahmed Alhammadi , Zhaoyang Zhang , Mérouane Debbah

With the ongoing development of Indoor Location-Based Services, the location information of users in indoor environments has been a challenging issue in recent years. Due to the widespread use of WiFi networks, WiFi fingerprinting has…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Amin Kargar-Barzi , Ebrahim Farahmand , Nooshin Taheri Chatrudi , Ali Mahani , Muhammad Shafique

The use of wireless signals for purposes of localization enables a host of applications relating to the determination and verification of the positions of network participants, ranging from radar to satellite navigation. Consequently, it…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Matthias Schäfer , Martin Strohmeier , Mauro Leonardi , Vincent Lenders

WiFi technology has been used pervasively in fine-grained indoor localization, gesture recognition, and adaptive communication. Achieving better performance in these tasks generally boils down to differentiating Line-Of-Sight (LOS) from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Sahib Singh Dhanjal , Maani Ghaffari , Ryan M. Eustice

This paper proposes passive WiFi indoor localization. Instead of using WiFi signals received by mobile devices as fingerprints, we use signals received by routers to locate the mobile carrier. Consequently, software installation on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Minh Tu Hoang , Brosnan Yuen , Kai Ren , Ahmed Elmoogy , Xiaodai Dong , Tao Lu , Hung Le Nguyen Robert Westendorp , Kishore Reddy Tarimala

Localization in already mapped environments is a critical component in many robotics and automotive applications, where previously acquired information can be exploited along with sensor fusion to provide robust and accurate localization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Lorenzo Montano-Oliván , Julio A. Placed , Luis Montano , María T. Lázaro

Crowdsourcing models applied to work on mobile devices continuously reach new ways of solving sophisticated problems, now with a use of portable advanced devices, where users are not limited to a stationary use. There exists an open problem…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-05-29 Oskar Jarczyk

Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) is the special case of crowdsourcing, which leverages the smartphones with various embedded sensors and user's mobility to sense diverse phenomenon in a city. Task allocation is a fundamental research issue in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Jiangtao Wang , Leye Wang , Yasha Wang , Daqing Zhang , Linghe Kong

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) represents a key paradigm for future wireless networks. However, existing approaches require waveform modifications, dedicated pilots, or overhead that complicates standards integration. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Wentao Yu , Khaled B. Letaief , Lizhong Zheng

In this paper we investigate the problem of localizing a mobile device based on readings from its embedded sensors utilizing machine learning methodologies. We consider a real-world environment, collect a large dataset of 3110 datapoints,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-21 David Mascharka , Eric Manley

Smartphones have become a popular tool for indoor localization and position estimation of users. Existing solutions mainly employ Wi-Fi, RFID, and magnetic sensing techniques to track movements in crowded venues. These are highly sensitive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-16 Amir Ivry , Elad Fisher , Roger Alimi , Idan Mosseri , Kanna Nahir