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Anonymity systems like Tor are vulnerable to Website Fingerprinting (WF) attacks, where a local passive eavesdropper infers the victim's activity. Current WF attacks based on deep learning classifiers have successfully overcome numerous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Shawn Shan , Arjun Nitin Bhagoji , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

Current data-driven Wi-Fi-based indoor localization systems face three critical challenges: protecting user privacy, achieving accurate predictions in dynamic multipath environments, and generalizing across different deployments.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Kanishka Roy , Tahsin Fuad Hasan , Chenfeng Wu , Eshwar Vangala , Roshan Ayyalasomayajula

WiFi-based device localization is a key enabling technology for smart applications, which has attracted numerous research studies in the past decade. Most of the existing approaches rely on Line-of-Sight (LoS) signals to work, while a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Yimiao Sun , Yuan He , Jiacheng Zhang , Xin Na , Yande Chen , Weiguo Wang , Xiuzhen Guo

Indoor localization systems have become increasingly important in a wide range of applications, including industry, security, logistics, and emergency services. However, the growing demand for accurate localization has heightened concerns…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Mohamed Mohsen , Hamada Rizk , Moustafa Youssef

WiFi-based indoor localization has now matured for over a decade. Most of the current localization algorithms rely on the WiFi access points (APs) in the enterprise network to localize the WiFi user accurately. Thus, the WiFi user's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Roshan Ayyalasomayajula , Aditya Arun , Wei Sun , Dinesh Bharadia

It has been shown that the channel state information (CSI) of a Wi-Fi system can be exploited to localize Wi-Fi devices or track trajectory of a moving target. In the existing literature, both sensing tasks are treated separately and some…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Chunxi Chen , Jingwen Zhang , Chao Yu , Fan Liu , Rui Wang

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

Moving Target Defense and Cyber Deception emerged in recent years as two key proactive cyber defense approaches, contrasting with the static nature of the traditional reactive cyber defense. The key insight behind these approaches is to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Giulio Pagnotta , Fabio De Gaspari , Dorjan Hitaj , Mauro Andreolini , Michele Colajanni , Luigi V. Mancini

The rapid advancements in wireless technology have significantly increased the demand for communication resources, leading to the development of Spectrum Access Systems (SAS). However, network regulations require disclosing sensitive user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Saleh Darzi , Attila A. Yavuz

In this paper, we study the problem of localizing the sensors' positions in presence of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. We consider a general attack model, in which the attacker action is only constrained through the frequency and duration…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-29 Lei Shi , Qingchen Liu , Jinliang Shao , Yuhua Cheng

In this paper, a delay-angle information spoofing (DAIS) strategy is proposed to enhance the location privacy at the physical layer. More precisely, the location-relevant delays and angles are artificially shifted without the aid of channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Jianxiu Li , Urbashi Mitra

Wi-Fi-based Positioning Systems (WPSes) are used by modern mobile devices to learn their position using nearby Wi-Fi access points as landmarks. In this work, we show that Apple's WPS can be abused to create a privacy threat on a global…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Erik Rye , Dave Levin

Indoor localization opens the path to potentially transformative applications. Although many indoor localization methods have been proposed over the years, they remain too impractical for widespread deployment in the real world. In this…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Emerson Sie , Enguang Fan , Federico Cifuentes-Urtubey , Deepak Vasisht

Localization of a wireless mobile device or a robot in indoor and GPS-denied environments is a difficult problem, particularly in dynamic scenarios where traditional cameras and LIDAR-based alternative sensing and localization modalities…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Ehsan Latif , Ramviyas Parasuraman

Accurate indoor localization has long been a challenging problem due to the presence of multipath. Joint direction-of-arrival (DOA) and time delay (TD) estimation is a promising technique for accurate indoor Localization in next generation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Fei Wen , Peilin Liu , Haichao Wei , Yi Zhang

Upcoming WiFi-based localization systems for indoor environments face a conflict of privacy interests: Server-side localization violates location privacy of the users, while localization on the user's device forces the localization provider…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-14 Jan Henrik Ziegeldorf , Nicolai Viol , Martin Henze , Klaus Wehrle

Large-scale MIMO systems are well known for their advantages in communications, but they also have the potential for providing very accurate localization thanks to their high angular resolution. A difficult problem arising indoors and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-13 Nil Garcia , Henk Wymeersch , Erik G. Larsson , Alexander M. Haimovich , Martial Coulon

Although WiFi fingerprint-based indoor localization is attractive, its accuracy remains a primary challenge especially in mobile environments. Existing approaches either appeal to physical layer information or rely on extra wireless signals…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-09-02 Chenshu Wu , Zheng Yang , Zimu Zhou , Yunhao Liu , Mingyan Liu

An indoor localization approach uses Wi-Fi Access Points (APs) to estimate the Direction of Arrival (DoA) of the WiFi signals. This paper demonstrates FIND, a tool for Fine INDoor localization based on a software-defined radio, which…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Evgeny Khorov , Aleksey Kureev , Vladislav Molodtsov

In recent years, there has been an increasing number of information technologies utilized in buildings to advance the idea of "smart buildings". Among various potential techniques, the use of Wi-Fi based indoor positioning allows to locate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Qian Huang , Yuanzhi Zhang , Zhenhao Ge , Chao Lu
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