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Many localization algorithms and systems have been developed by means of wireless sensor networks for both indoor and outdoor environments. To achieve higher localization accuracy, extra hardware equipments are utilized by most of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Tao Huang , Zhikui Chen , Feng Xia , Cheng Jin , Liang Li

Wi-Fi signals may help realize low-cost and non-invasive human sensing, yet it can also be exploited by eavesdroppers to capture private information. Very few studies rise to handle this privacy concern so far; they either jam all sensing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Jun Luo , Hangcheng Cao , Hongbo Jiang , Yanbing Yang , Zhe Chen

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

Localization is important for a large number of Internet of Things (IoT) endpoint devices connected by LoRaWAN. Due to the bandwidth limitations of LoRaWAN, existing localization methods without specialized hardware (e.g., GPS) produce poor…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-17 Jun Liu , Jiayao Gao , Sanjay Jha , Wen Hu

This paper studies location privacy in uplink MIMO systems, where a user equipment seeks to spoof the angular signature observed by a single base station performing localization. We propose a blind analog precoder design that manipulates…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Priyanka Maity , Lorenzo Italiano , Alireza Pourafzal , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , Hui Chen , Monica Nicoli , Henk Wymeersch

WiFi fingerprinting is one of the mainstream technologies for indoor localization. However, it requires an initial calibration phase during which the fingerprint database is built manually. This process is labour intensive and needs to be…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Ahmed Shokry , Moustafa Elhamshary , Moustafa Youssef

Localizing near-field sources considering practical arrays is important in wireless communications. Array-based apertures exhibit mutual coupling between the array elements, which can significantly degrade the performance of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Zohreh Ebadi , Amir Masoud Molaei , Muhammad Ali Babar Abbasi , Simon Cotton , Anvar Tukmanov , Okan Yurduseven

Today, telecommunication service providers (telcos) are exposed to cyber-attacks executed by compromised IoT devices connected to their customers' networks. Such attacks might have severe effects not only on the target of attacks but also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Yair Meidan , Vinay Sachidananda , Yuval Elovici , Asaf Shabtai

We propose a new approach towards RSS (Received Signal Strength) based wireless localisation for scenarios where, instead of absolute positioning of an object, only the information whether an object is inside or outside of a specific area…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Cam Ly Nguyen , Aftab Khan

Concerns on location privacy frequently arise with the rapid development of GPS enabled devices and location-based applications. While spatial transformation techniques such as location perturbation or generalization have been studied…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Yonghui Xiao , Li Xiong

With the recent development in mobile computing devices and as the ubiquitous deployment of access points(APs) of Wireless Local Area Networks(WLANs), WLAN based indoor localization systems(WILSs) are of mounting concentration and are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-13 Caifa Zhou , Lin Ma , Xuezhi Tan

Proof-of-Location (PoL) is a lightweight security concept for Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks, focusing on the sensor nodes as the least performant and most vulnerable parts of IoT networks. PoL builds on the identification of network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Simon Tschirner , Katharina Zeuch , Sascha Kaven , Lorenz Bornholdt , Volker Skwarek

Currently, accurate localization system based on commodity WiFi devices is not broadly available yet. In the literature, the solutions are based on either network infrastructure like WiFi router, which have at least three antennas, or…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Ouyang Zhang , Kannan Srinivasan

Locating each node in a wireless sensor network is essential for starting the monitoring job and sending information about the area. One method that has been used in hard and inaccessible environments is randomly scattering each node in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Saeed Ghadiri

Global localization is essential for autonomous robotics, especially in indoor environments where the GPS signal is denied. We propose a novel WiFi-based localization framework that leverages ubiquitous wireless infrastructure and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Xu Ma , Jiajie Zhang , Fujing Xie , Sören Schwertfeger

Localization for autonomous robots in prior maps is crucial for their functionality. This paper offers a solution to this problem for indoor environments called InstaLoc, which operates on an individual lidar scan to localize it within a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Lintong Zhang , Tejaswi Digumarti , Georgi Tinchev , Maurice Fallon

Location-based Services (LBSs) provide valuable services, with convenient features for users. However, the information disclosed through each request harms user privacy. This is a concern particularly with honest-but-curious LBS servers,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Hongyu Jin , Panos Papadimitratos

Location based services are expected to play a major role in future generation cellular networks, starting from the incoming 5G systems. At the same time, localization technologies may be severely affected by attackers capable to deploy low…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Stefania Bartoletti , Ivan Palamà , Danilo Orlando , Giuseppe Bianchi , Nicola Blefari Melazzi

In a time-of-arrival (TOA) or pseudorange based positioning system, user location is obtained by observing multiple anchor nodes (AN) at known positions. Utilizing more than one positioning systems, e.g., combining Global Positioning System…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-26 Sihao Zhao , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Xiaowei Cui , Mingquan Lu

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are rapidly emerging as an important new area in wireless and mobile computing research. Applications of WSNs are numerous and growing, and range from indoor deployment scenarios in the home and office to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-01-23 Jaydip Sen