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In intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided wireless communication systems, channel state information (CSI) is crucial to achieve its promising passive beamforming gains. However, CSI errors are inevitable in practice and generally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Ming-Min Zhao , An Liu , Rui Zhang

This paper presents a radar target tracking framework for addressing main-beam range deception jamming attacks using random finite sets (RFSs). Our system handles false alarms and detections with false range information through multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Helena Calatrava , Aanjhan Ranganathan , Tales Imbiriba , Gunar Schirner , Murat Akcakaya , Pau Closas

The reliability of information in participatory sensing (PS) systems largely depends on the accuracy of the location of the participating users. However, existing PS applications are not able to efficiently validate the position of users in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Francesco Restuccia , Andrea Saracino , Fabio Martinelli

We consider the problem of self-localization by a resource-constrained node within a network given radio signal strength indicator (RSSI) measurements from a set of anchor nodes where the RSSI measurements as well as the anchor position…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Vikram Kumar , Reza Arablouei , Brano Kusy , Raja Jurdak , Neil W. Bergmann

In this paper, we propose to identify compromised mobile devices from a network administrator's point of view. Intuitively, inadvertent users (and thus their devices) who download apps through untrustworthy markets are often allured to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Euijin Choo , Mohamed Nabeel , Mashael Alsabah , Issa Khalil , Ting Yu , Wei Wang

Increasing numbers of mobile computing devices, user-portable, or embedded in vehicles, cargo containers, or the physical space, need to be aware of their location in order to provide a wide range of commercial services. Most often, mobile…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-01-05 P. Papadimitratos , A. Jovanovic

Range-based localization is ubiquitous: global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) power mobile phone-based navigation, and autonomous mobile robots can use range measurements from a variety of modalities including sonar, radar, and even…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Ethan Sequeira , Hussein Saad , Stephen Kelly , Matthew Giamou

In this paper we use the MAP criterion to locate a region containing a source. Sensors placed in a field of interest divide the latter into smaller regions and take measurements that are transmitted over noisy wireless channels. We propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-03-19 S. H. Dandach , F. Bullo

Reliable retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems depend fundamentally on the retriever's ability to find relevant information. We show that neural retrievers used in RAG systems have blind spots, which we define as the failure to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Zeinab Sadat Taghavi , Ali Modarressi , Hinrich Schutze , Andreas Marfurt

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

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

In a wireless sensor network, data from various sensors are gathered to estimate the system-state of the process system. However, adversaries aim at distorting the system-state estimate, for which they may infiltrate sensors or position…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Stefan Roth , Aydin Sezgin , Roman Bessel , H. Vincent Poor

The disaggregation and virtualization of 5G Open RAN (O-RAN) introduces new vulnerabilities in the control plane that can greatly impact the quality of service (QoS) of latency-sensitive 5G applications and services. One critical issue is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Mohamed Rouili , Yang Xiao , Sihang Liu , Raouf Boutaba

While the robustness of rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) to imperfect channel state information (CSI) is well-documented, its susceptibility to attacks launched with malicious reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) remains…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-26 A. S. de Sena , A. Gomes , J. Kibiłda , N. H. Mahmood , L. A. DaSilva , M. Latva-aho

Grasp detection with consideration of the affiliations between grasps and their owner in object overlapping scenes is a necessary and challenging task for the practical use of the robotic grasping approach. In this paper, a robotic grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Hanbo Zhang , Xuguang Lan , Site Bai , Xinwen Zhou , Zhiqiang Tian , Nanning Zheng

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned to have abundant applications in future wireless networks by smartly reconfiguring the signal propagation for performance enhancement. Specifically, an IRS consists of a large number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

This paper explores the data cleaning challenges that arise in using WiFi connectivity data to locate users to semantic indoor locations such as buildings, regions, rooms. WiFi connectivity data consists of sporadic connections between…

The conventional device authentication of wireless networks usually relies on a security server and centralized process, leading to long latency and risk of single-point of failure. While these challenges might be mitigated by collaborative…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-28 He Fang , Zhenlong Xiao , Xianbin Wang , Li Xu , Lajos Hanzo

The first step of a secure communication is authenticating legible users and detecting the malicious ones. In the last recent years, some promising schemes proposed using wireless medium network's features, in particular, channel state…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Amirhossein Yazdani Abyaneh , Ali Hosein Gharari Foumani , Vahid Pourahmadi

In supporting Wifi networks it is useful to identify the type of client device connecting to an AP. Knowing the type of client can guide troubleshooting steps, allow searches for known issues, or allow specific workarounds to be implemented…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Denton Gentry , Avery Pennarun