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Indoor localization has become an important issue for wireless sensor networks. This paper presents a zoning-based localization technique that uses WiFi signals and works efficiently in indoor environments. The targeted area is composed of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-12 Daniel Alshamaa , Farah Chehade , Paul Honeine

Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) has become a promising choice for indoor positioning as the only existing and established infrastructure, to localize the mobile and stationary users indoors. However, since WLAN has been initially…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Ali Khalajmehrabadi , Nikolaos Gatsis , David Akopian

The rapid expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in smart homes has significantly improved the quality of life, offering enhanced convenience, automation, and energy efficiency. However, this proliferation of connected devices raises…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Nazar Waheed , Fazlullah Khan , Spyridon Mastorakis , Mian Ahmad Jan , Abeer Z. Alalmaie , Priyadarsi Nanda

Classification between different activities in an indoor environment using wireless signals is an emerging technology for various applications, including intrusion detection, patient care, and smart home. Researchers have shown different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-10 B. R. Manoj , Guoda Tian , Sara Gunnarsson , Fredrik Tufvesson , Erik G. Larsson

The advancement of next-generation Wi-Fi technology heavily relies on sensing capabilities, which play a pivotal role in enabling sophisticated applications. In response to the growing demand for large-scale deployments, contemporary Wi-Fi…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-29 Yuxuan Liu , Chiya Zhang , Yifeng Yuan , Chunlong He , Weizheng Zhang , Gaojie Chen

Passive human tracking via Wi-Fi has been researched broadly in the past decade. Besides straight-forward anchor point localization, velocity is another vital sign adopted by the existing approaches to infer user trajectory. However,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Chenning Li , Li Liu , Zhichao Cao , Mi Zhang

Localization plays an essential role in many ubiquitous computing applications. While the outdoor location-aware services based on GPS are becoming increasingly popular, their proliferation to indoor environments is limited due to the lack…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-08-08 Andrei Popleteev , Venet Osmani , Oscar Mayora

WiFi-based mobility monitoring in urban environments can provide valuable insights into pedestrian and vehicle movements. However, MAC address randomization introduces a significant obstacle in accurately estimating congestion levels and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-05 Stepan Mazokha , Fanchen Bao , George Sklivanitis , Jason O. Hallstrom

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) based indoor positioning is a widely researched area for determining the position of devices within a wireless network. Accurate indoor location has numerous applications, such as asset tracking and indoor…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Nayan Sanjay Bhatia , Katia Obraczka

The Internet of Things (IoT) enables numerous business opportunities in fields as diverse as e-health, smart cities, smart homes, among many others. The IoT incorporates multiple long-range, short-range, and personal area wireless networks…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Belal Alsinglawi , Mahmoud Elkhodr , Quang Vinh Nguyen , Upul Gunawardana , Anthony Maeder , Simeon Simoff

GPS signals, the main origin of navigation, are not functional in indoor environments. Therefore, Wi-Fi access points have started to be increasingly used for localization and tracking inside the buildings by relying on a fingerprint-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Andrew Quijano , Kemal Akkaya

Static and hard-coded layer-two network identifiers are well known to present security vulnerabilities and endanger user privacy. In this work, we introduce a new privacy attack against Wi-Fi access points listed on secondhand marketplaces.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Steven Su , Erik Rye , Dave Levin , Robert Beverly

Detecting whether a target crosses the given zone (e.g., a door) can enable various practical applications in smart homes, including intelligent security and people counting. The traditional infrared-based approach only covers a line and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Weiyan Shi , Xuanzhi Wang , Kai Niu , Leye Wang , Daqing Zhang

Modeling human mobility has a wide range of applications from urban planning to simulations of disease spread. It is well known that humans spend 80% of their time indoors but modeling indoor human mobility is challenging due to three main…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Amee Trivedi , Kate Silverstein , Emma Strubell , Mohit Iyyer , Prashant Shenoy

Indoor navigation is a foundational technology to assist the tracking and localization of humans, autonomous vehicles, drones, and robots in indoor spaces. Due to the lack of penetration of GPS signals in buildings, subterranean locales,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Sudeep Pasricha

We propose a method for predicting the location of user equipment (UE) using wireless fingerprints in dynamic indoor non-line-of-sight (NLoS) environments. In particular, our method copes with the challenges posed by the drift, birth, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Rafail Ismayilov , Renato L. G. Cavalcante , Slawomir Stanczak

Indoor localization using deep learning (DL) has demonstrated strong accuracy in mapping Wi-Fi RSS fingerprints to physical locations; however, most existing DL frameworks function as black-box models, offering limited insight into how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Danish Gufran , Sudeep Pasricha

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 fingerprinting remains one of the most practical solutions for indoor positioning, however, its performance is often limited by the size and heterogeneity of fingerprint datasets, strong Received Signal Strength Indicator variability,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Miguel Matey-Sanz , Joaquín Torres-Sospedra , Joaquín Huerta , Sergio Trilles

We develop a new location spoofing detection algorithm for geo-spatial tagging and location-based services in the Internet of Things (IoT), called Enhanced Location Spoofing Detection using Audibility (ELSA) which can be implemented at the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Jing Yang Koh , Ido Nevat , Derek Leong , Wai-Choong Wong