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A great surge in the development of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) excavates the potential for prosperity in many state-of-the-art technologies, e.g., autonomous ground vehicle navigation. Nevertheless, the GNSS is vulnerable to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Yiran Luo , You Li , Jin Wang , Naser El-Sheimy

Acoustic eavesdropping is a privacy risk, but existing attacks rarely work in real outdoor situations where people make phone calls on the move. We present SuperEar, the first portable system that uses acoustic metamaterials to reliably…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Zhiyuan Ning , Zhanyong Tang , Juan He , Weizhi Meng , Yuntian Chen , Ji Zhang , Zheng Wang

Wearables that constantly collect various sensor data of their users increase the chances for inferences of unintentional and sensitive information such as passwords typed on a physical keyboard. We take a thorough look at the potential of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Matthias Gazzari , Annemarie Mattmann , Max Maass , Matthias Hollick

Security becomes an extremely important issue in smart grid. To maintain the steady operation for smart power grid, massive measurement devices must be allocated widely among the power grid. Previous studies are focused on false data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Zhenghao Zhang , Shuping Gong , Husheng Li , Changxing Pei

Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) has long been a dream for stable and reliable motion estimation, especially in indoor environments where GPS strength limits. In this paper, we propose a novel method for position and orientation estimation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Yingying Wang , Hu Cheng , Max Q. H. Meng

With the increasing popularity of voice-based applications, acoustic eavesdropping has become a serious threat to users' privacy. While on smartphones the access to microphones needs an explicit user permission, acoustic eavesdropping…

The proliferation of smart, connected, always listening devices have introduced significant privacy risks to users in a smart home environment. Beyond the notable risk of eavesdropping, intruders can adopt machine learning techniques to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Olakunle Ibitoye , Ashraf Matrawy , M. Omair Shafiq

Recently, cellular Ambient Backscattering has been proposed for cellular networks. Up to now an Ambient backscatter device, called zero-energy device or tag, broadcasted its message by backscattering ambient downlink waves from the closest…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Ahmed ElSanhoury , Islam Galal , Khaled AlKady , Aml ElKhodary , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy , Ayman M. Hassan

Visual-inertial fusion is crucial for a large amount of intelligent and autonomous applications, such as robot navigation and augmented reality. To bootstrap and achieve optimal state estimation, the spatial-temporal displacements between…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Junlin Song , Antoine Richard , Miguel Olivares-Mendez

Inaudible voice command injection is one of the most threatening attacks towards voice assistants. Existing attacks aim at injecting the attack signals over the air, but they require the access to the authorized user's voice for activating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Yuanda Wang , Hanqing Guo , Qiben Yan

This paper presents a novel time synchronization attack (TSA) model for the Global Positioning System (GPS) based on clock data behavior changes in a higher-order derivative domain. Further, the time synchronization attack rejection and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-02 Erick Schmidt , Junhwan Lee , Nikolaos Gatsis , David Akopian

Beam alignment (BA) is a crucial process in millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications, enabling precise directional transmission and efficient link establishment. However, due to characteristics like omnidirectional exposure and the broadcast…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yulin Teng , Keshuang Han , Pinchang Zhang , Xiaohong Jiang , Yulong Shen , Fu Xiao

This paper introduces the Time Synchronization Attack Rejection and Mitigation (TSARM) technique for Time Synchronization Attacks (TSAs) over the Global Positioning System (GPS). The technique estimates the clock bias and drift of the GPS…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Ali Khalajmehrabadi , Nikolaos Gatsis , David Akopian , Ahmad F. Taha

Location tags are designed to track personal belongings. Nevertheless, there has been anecdotal evidence that location tags are also misused to stalk people. Tracking is achieved locally, e.g., via Bluetooth with a paired phone, and…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Hazem Ibrahim , Rohail Asim , Matteo Varvello , Yasir Zaki

Nowadays smartphones come embedded with multiple motion sensors, such as an accelerometer, a gyroscope and an orientation sensor. With these sensors, apps can gather more information and therefore provide end users with more functionality.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Yihang Song , Madhur Kukreti , Rahul Rawat , Urs Hengartner

Human maintain their body balance by sensorimotor controls mainly based on information gathered from vision, proprioception and vestibular systems. When there is a lack of information, caused by pathologies, diseases or aging, the subject…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-29 Giovanni Costantini , Daniele Casali , Fabio Paolizzo , Marco Alessandrini , Alessandro Micarelli , Andrea Viziano , Giovanni Saggio

Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) rely on onboard attitude and position sensors for autonomous flight. Due to their size, weight, and power (SWaP) constraints, most modern MAVs use miniaturized inertial measurement units (IMUs) to provide…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Zhan Tu , Fan Fei , Matthew Eagon , Dongyan Xu , Xinyan Deng

The popularity of mobile device has made people's lives more convenient, but threatened people's privacy at the same time. As end users are becoming more and more concerned on the protection of their private information, it is even harder…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-07-04 Zhe Zhou , Wenrui Diao , Xiangyu Liu , Kehuan Zhang

Eavesdropping on sounds emitted by mobile device loudspeakers can capture sensitive digital information, such as SMS verification codes, credit card numbers, and withdrawal passwords, which poses significant security risks. Existing schemes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yangyang Gu , Xianglong Li , Haolin Wu , Jing Chen , Kun He , Ruiying Du , Cong Wu

Time-synchronization attacks on phasor measurement units (PMU) pose a real threat to smart grids; it was shown that they are feasible in practice and that they can have a non-negligible negative impact on the state estimation, without…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Marguerite Delcourt , Jean-Yves Le Boudec