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Indoor localization has become increasingly important due to its wide-ranging applications in indoor navigation, emergency services, the Internet of Things (IoT), and accessibility for individuals with special needs. Traditional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Mohamed I. Hany , Hamada Rizk , Moustafa Youssef

Backscatter Communication (BackCom), which is based on passive reflection and modulation of an incident radio-frequency (RF) wave, has emerged as a cutting-edge technological paradigm for self-sustainable Internet-of-things (IoT).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Sarah Basharat , Syed Ali Hassan , Aamir Mahmood , Zhiguo Ding , Mikael Gidlund

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a paradigm characterized by a network of embedded sensors and services. These sensors are incorporated to collect various information, track physical conditions, e.g., waste bins' status, and exchange data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Mohammadhossein Ghahramani , Mengchu Zhou , Anna Molter , Francesco Pilla

Due to the practical challenges in the deployment of existing half-duplex systems, the promise of ubiquitous backscatter connectivity has eluded us. To address this, we design the first long-range full-duplex LoRa backscatter reader. We…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Mohamad Katanbaf , Anthony Weinand , Vamsi Talla

This paper presents a lightweight, protocol-agnostic security enhancement for Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT) in Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Building on a backscatter-based identification mechanism,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Taki Eddine Djidjekh , Alexandru Takacs , Gaël Loubet , Lamoussa Sanogo , Daniela Dragomirescu

Robust place recognition is essential for reliable localization in robotics, particularly in complex environments with frequent indoor-outdoor transitions. However, existing LiDAR-based datasets often focus on outdoor scenarios and lack…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Jaejin Jeon , Seonghoon Ryoo , Sang-Duck Lee , Soomok Lee , Seungwoo Jeong

The rapid growth of IoT driven by recent advancements in consumer electronics, 5G communication technologies, and cloud-computing enabled big-data analytics, has recently attracted tremendous attention from both the industry and academia.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Wanchun Liu , Kaibin Huang , Xiangyun Zhou , Salman Durrani

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

Location information is essential to varieties of applications. It is one of the most important context to be detected by wireless distributed sensors, which is a key technology in Internet-of-Things. Fingerprint-based methods, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-09 Tao Yu , Azril Haniz , Kentaro Sano , Ryosuke Iwata , Ryouta Kosaka , Yusuke Kuki , Gia Khanh Tran , Jun-Ichi Takada , Kei Sakaguchi

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

Besides being part of the Internet of Things (IoT), drones can play a relevant role in it as enablers. The 3D mobility of UAVs can be exploited to improve node localization in IoT networks for, e.g., search and rescue or goods localization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Victor Delafontaine , Fabrizio Schiano , Giuseppe Cocco , Alexandru Rusu , Dario Floreano

Ambient backscatter communication system is an emerging and promising low-energy technology for Internet of Things. In such system, a device named tag, sends a binary message to a reader by backscattering a radio frequency signal generated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-04 Romain Fara , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy , Abdelwaheb Ourir , Marco Di Renzo , Julien de Rosny

Collecting data from massive Internet of Things (IoT) devices is a challenging task, since communication circuits are power-demanding while energy supply at IoT devices is limited. To overcome this challenge, backscatter communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Shuai Wang , Minghua Xia , Yik-Chung Wu

The Internet of Things (IoT) has started to empower the future of many industrial and mass-market applications. Localization techniques are becoming key to add location context to IoT data without human perception and intervention.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-06 You Li , Yuan Zhuang , Xin Hu , Zhouzheng Gao , Jia Hu , Long Chen , Zhe He , Ling Pei , Kejie Chen , Maosong Wang , Xiaoji Niu , Ruizhi Chen , John Thompson , Fadhel Ghannouchi , Naser El-Sheimy

Indoor positioning systems have received a lot of attention recently due to their importance for many location-based services, e.g. indoor navigation and smart buildings. Lightweight solutions based on WiFi and inertial sensing have gained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Savvas Papaioannou , Hongkai Wen , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

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

Due to the noisy indoor radio propagation channel, Radio Frequency (RF)-based location determination systems usually require a tedious calibration phase to construct an RF fingerprint of the area of interest. This fingerprint varies with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Rizanne Elbakly , Moustafa Youssef

This paper presents a framework addressing the challenge of global localization in autonomous mobile robotics by integrating LiDAR-based descriptors and Wi-Fi fingerprinting in a pre-mapped environment. This is motivated by the increasing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Nikolaos Stathoulopoulos , Emanuele Pagliari , Luca Davoli , George Nikolakopoulos

Future Internet-of-Things (IoT) is expected to wirelessly connect billions of low-complexity devices. For wireless information transfer (WIT) in IoT, high density of IoT devices and their ad hoc communication result in strong interference…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Wanchun Liu , Kaibin Huang , Xiangyun Zhou , Salman Durrani

Indoor position technology has become one of the research highlights in the Internet of Things (IoT), but there is still a lack of universal, low-cost, and high-precision solutions. This paper conducts research on indoor position technology…

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