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Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) spoofing attacks severely threaten Internet of Things (IoT) networks by allowing attackers to intercept, modify, or block communications. Traditional detection methods are insufficient due to high false…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Taimoor Ahmad , Anas Ali

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a promising technology to enhance indoor wireless communication and sensing performance. However, the construction of reliable received signal strength (RSS)-based fingerprint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Xin Cheng , Yu He , Menglu Li , Ruoguang Li , Feng Shu , Guangjie Han

Emerging 5G millimeter-wave and sub-6 GHz networks enable high-accuracy indoor localization, but security and privacy vulnerabilities pose serious challenges. In this paper, we identify and address threats including location spoofing and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Ildi Alla , Valeria Loscri

As Wireless Sensor Networks are penetrating into the industrial domain, many research opportunities are emerging. One such essential and challenging application is that of node localization. A feed-forward neural network based methodology…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Shiu Kumar , Ronesh Sharma , Edwin Vans

Outdoor positioning systems based on the Global Navigation Satellite System have several shortcomings that have deemed their use for indoor positioning impractical. Location fingerprinting, which utilizes machine learning, has emerged as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Fahad Alhomayani , Mohammad H. Mahoor

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

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

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT), the risks of data tampering and malicious information injection have intensified, making efficient threat detection in large-scale distributed sensor networks a pressing challenge.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yuhan Suo , Runqi Chai , Kaiyuan Chen , Senchun Chai , Wannian Liang , Yuanqing Xia

In this paper, we present Hapi, a novel system that uses off-the-shelf standard WiFi to provide pseudo-3D indoor localization. It estimates the user's floor and her 2D location on that floor. Hapi is calibration-free, only requiring the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Heba Aly , Ashok Agrawala

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

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…

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

Internet of things wireless networking with long range, low power and low throughput is raising as a new paradigm enabling to connect trillions of devices efficiently. In such networks with low power and bandwidth devices, localization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Hazem Sallouha , Alessandro Chiumento , Sofie Pollin

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

Human existence is getting more sophisticated and better in many areas due to remarkable advances in the fields of automation. Automated systems are favored over manual ones in the current environment. Home Automation is becoming more…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Samsil Arefin Mozumder , A S M Sharifuzzaman Sagar

Indoor localization remains challenging in GNSS-denied environments due to multipath, device heterogeneity, and volatile radio conditions. We propose a topology-aware, hybrid Wi-Fi/BLE fingerprinting framework that (i) applies physically…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Behrad Mousaei Shir-Mohammad , Behzad Moshiri , Abolfazl Yaghmaei

Mobile devices have been shipped with multiple wireless network interfaces in order to meet their diverse communication and networking demands. In this paper, we propose an A-GPS assisted scheme that discovers the nearest Wi-Fi network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-01-04 Feng Xia , Wei Zhang , Fangwei Ding , Ruonan Hao

This paper aims at detecting an accurate position of the main entrance of the buildings. The proposed approach relies on the fact that the GPS signals drop significantly when the user enters a building. Moreover, as most of the public…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Ahmad Abadleh

Randomized MAC addresses aim to prevent passive device tracking, yet Wi-Fi management frames still leak structured behavioral patterns. Prior work has relied primarily on syntactic probe-request features such as Information Elements (IEs),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Abhishek K. Mishra , Mathieu Cunche

Internet of Things (IoT) device localization is fundamental to smart home functionalities, including indoor navigation and tracking of individuals. Traditional localization relies on relative methods utilizing the positions of anchors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Yan Li , Jie Yang , Shang-Ling Shih , Wan-Ting Shih , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin