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Due to the COVID 19 pandemic, smartphone-based proximity tracing systems became of utmost interest. Many of these systems use BLE signals to estimate the distance between two persons. The quality of this method depends on many factors and,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Eric Lanfer , Thomas Hänel , Roland van Rijswijk-Deij , Nils Aschenbruck

WiFi backscatter tags can enable direct connectivity of IoT devices with commodity WiFi hardware at low power. However, most state of the art backscatter tag implementations in this area have limited transmitter to tag range, are not…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-17 Manideep Dunna , Shihkai Kuo , Akshit Agarwal , Patrick Mercier , Dinesh Bharadia

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

Today's societies are enveloped in an ever-growing telecommunication infrastructure. This infrastructure offers important opportunities for sensing and recording a multitude of human behaviors. Human mobility patterns are a prominent…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Piotr Sapiezynski , Arkadiusz Stopczynski , David Kofoed Wind , Jure Leskovec , Sune Lehmann

Today, many critical services and industrial systems rely on wireless networks for interaction with the IoT, hence becoming vulnerable to a broad number of cyber-threats. While detecting this kind of attacks is not difficult with common…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Matteo Repetto , Enrico Cambiaso , Fabio Patrone , Sandro Zappatore

WiFi fingerprint-based indoor localization schemes deliver highly accurate location data by matching the received signal strength indicator (RSSI) with an offline database using machine learning (ML) or deep learning (DL) models. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Fariha Tanjim Shifat , Sayma Sarwar Ela , Mosarrat Jahan

The contact-free sensing nature of Wi-Fi has been leveraged to achieve privacy breaches, yet existing attacks relying on Wi-Fi CSI (channel state information) demand hacking Wi-Fi hardware to obtain desired CSIs. Since such hacking has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Jingyang Hu , Hongbo Wang , Tianyue Zheng , Jingzhi Hu , Zhe Chen , Hongbo Jiang , Jun Luo

WiFi-based localization became one of the main indoor localization techniques due to the ubiquity of WiFi connectivity. However, indoor environments exhibit complex wireless propagation characteristics. Typically, these characteristics are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-08-04 Heba Aly , Moustafa Youssef

Contact tracing is a well-established and effective approach for the containment of the spread of infectious diseases. While Bluetooth-based contact tracing method using phones has become popular recently, these approaches suffer from the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Amee Trivedi , Camellia Zakaria , Rajesh Balan , Prashant Shenoy

Due to the increasing threat of attacks on satellite systems, novel countermeasures have been developed to provide additional security. Among these, there has been a particular interest in transmitter fingerprinting, which authenticates…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Joshua Smailes , Sebastian Köhler , Simon Birnbach , Martin Strohmeier , Ivan Martinovic

In a multiuser context, the Bluetooth data from the smartphone could give an approximation of the distance between users. Meanwhile, the Wi-Fi data can be used to calculate the user's position directly. However, both the Wi-Fi-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-17 Viet-Cuong Ta , Trung-Kien Dao , Dominique Vaufreydaz , Eric Castelli

Recognizing user location with WiFi fingerprints is a popular approach for accurate indoor positioning problems. In this work, our goal is to interpret WiFi fingerprints into actual user locations. However, WiFi fingerprint data can be very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Weizhu Qian , Franck Gechter

Wi-Fi link is unpredictable and it has never been easy to measure it perfectly; there is always bound to be some bias. As wireless becomes the medium of choice, it is useful to capture Wi-Fi traces in order to evaluate, tune, and adapt the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Mohammad Imran Syed , Renata Teixeira , Sara Ayoubi , Giulio Grassi

This paper provides a robust, scalable Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE) based indoor localization solution using commodity hardware. While WiFi-based indoor localization has been widely studied, BLE has emerged a key technology for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Subham De , Deepak Vasisht , Hari Sundaram , Robin Kravets

Physical layer authentication relies on detecting unique imperfections in signals transmitted by radio devices to isolate their fingerprint. Recently, deep learning-based authenticators have increasingly been proposed to classify devices…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Samurdhi Karunaratne , Enes Krijestorac , Danijela Cabric

Evil twin attack on Wi-Fi network has been a challenging security problem and several solutions have been proposed to this problem. In general, evil twin attack aims to exfiltrate data, like Wi-Fi and service credentials, from the client…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Anand Agrawal , Rajib Ranjan Maiti

Node forgery or impersonation, in which legitimate cryptographic credentials are captured by an adversary, constitutes one major security threat facing wireless networks. The fact that mobile devices are prone to be compromised and reverse…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Qiang Xu , Rong Zheng , Walid Saad , Zhu Han

We present IPvSeeYou, a privacy attack that permits a remote and unprivileged adversary to physically geolocate many residential IPv6 hosts and networks with street-level precision. The crux of our method involves: 1) remotely discovering…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Erik Rye , Robert Beverly

The big wave of Internet of Things (IoT) malware reflects the fragility of the current IoT ecosystem. Research has found that IoT malware can spread quickly on devices of different processer architectures, which leads our attention to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Qige Song , Yongzheng Zhang , Binglai Wang , Yige Chen

Primary user emulation (PUE) attacks are an emerging threat to cognitive radio (CR) networks in which malicious users imitate the primary users (PUs) signals to limit the access of secondary users (SUs). Ascertaining the identity of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-08-27 Yaman Sharaf-Dabbagh , Walid Saad