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Validating wireless protocol implementations is challenging. Today's approaches require labor-intensive experimental setup and manual trace investigation, but produce poor coverage and inaccurate and irreproducible results. We present…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Jinghao Shi , Shuvendu Lahiri , Ranveer Chandra , Geoffrey Challen

Radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting techniques provide a promising supplement to cryptography-based approaches but rely on dedicated equipment to capture in-phase and quadrature (IQ) samples, hindering their wide adoption. Recent advances…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Yong Huang , Wenjing Wang , Dalong Zhang , Junjie Wang , Chen Chen , Yan Cao , Wei Wang

Embedded devices are omnipresent in modern networks including the ones operating inside critical environments. However, due to their constrained nature, novel mechanisms are required to provide external, and non-intrusive anomaly detection.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Kurt A. Vedros , Georgios Michail Makrakis , Constantinos Kolias , Robert C. Ivans , Craig Rieger

The device fingerprinting technique extracts fingerprints based on the hardware characteristics of the device to identify the device. The primary goal of device fingerprinting is to accurately and uniquely identify a device, which requires…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Dawei Li , Di Liu , Yangkun Ren , Ziyi Wang , Yu Sun , Zhenyu Guan , Qianhong Wu , Jianwei Liu

Malicious encryption techniques continue to evolve, bypassing conventional detection mechanisms that rely on static signatures or predefined behavioral rules. Spectral analysis presents an alternative approach that transforms system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Dominica Ayanara , Atticus Hillingworth , Jonathan Casselbury , Dominic Montague

Given the rapid advancements in wireless communication and terminal devices, high-speed and convenient WiFi has permeated various aspects of people's lives, and attention has been drawn to the location services that WiFi can provide.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-03 Jiyu Jiao , Xiaojun Wang , Chenlin He

Comparing to well protected data frames, Wi-Fi management frames (MFs) are extremely vulnerable to various attacks. Since MFs are transmitted without encryption, attackers can forge them easily. Such attacks can be detected in cooperative…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Zhiping Jiang , Jizhong Zhao , Xiang-Yang Li , JinSong Han , Wei Xi

Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the technological advancements of the twenty-first century which can improve living standards. However, it also imposes new types of security challenges, including device authentication, traffic types…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Rajarshi Roy Chowdhury , Debashish Roy , Pg Emeroylariffion Abas

We introduce an approach for understanding control policies represented as recurrent neural networks. Recent work has approached this problem by transforming such recurrent policy networks into finite-state machines (FSM) and then analyzing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Mohamad H. Danesh , Anurag Koul , Alan Fern , Saeed Khorram

Identity authentication is crucial for ensuring the information security of wireless communication. Radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting techniques provide a prom-ising supplement to cryptography-based authentication approaches but rely on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Junjie Wang , Yong Huang , Feiyang Zhao , Wenjing Wang , Dalong Zhang , Wei Wang

Multi-site studies are becoming important to increase statistical power, enhance generalizability, and to improve the likelihood of pooling relevant subgroups together activities. Even with harmonized imaging sequences, site-dependent…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-09-11 Sumra Bari , Enrico Amico , Nicole Vike , Thomas M. Talavage , Joaquín Goñi

Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) can classify wireless devices by analyzing the signal distortions caused by the intrinsic hardware impairments. State-of-the-art neural networks have been adopted for RFFI. However, many…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-08 Guanxiong Shen , Junqing Zhang , Alan Marshall , Mikko Valkama , Joseph Cavallaro

Probe Requests are Wi-Fi management frames periodically sent by devices during network discovery. Tracking Probe Requests over time offers insights into movement patterns, traffic flows, and behavior trends, which are keys in applications…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Giovanni Baccichet , Fabio Palmese , Alessandro E. C. Redondi , Matteo Cesana

For Finite State Machines (FSMs) a rich testing theory has been developed to discover aspects of their behavior and ensure their correct functioning. Although this theory is widely used, e.g., to check conformance of protocol…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Petra van den Bos , Frits Vaandrager

Wi-Fi Channel State Information (CSI) has been repeatedly proposed as a biometric modality, often with reports of high accuracy and operational feasibility. However, the field lacks a consolidated understanding of its security properties,…

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) has been extensively researched in past years particularly with regard to range-based or visual-based sensors. Instead of deploying dedicated devices that use visual features, it is more…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Ran Liu , Sumudu Hasala Marakkalage , Madhushanka Padmal , Thiruketheeswaran Shaganan , Chau Yuen , Yong Liang Guan , U-Xuan Tan

Gesture recognition has become increasingly important in human-computer interaction and can support different applications such as smart home, VR, and gaming. Traditional approaches usually rely on dedicated sensors that are worn by the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Sheng Tan , Jie Yang

Wi-Fi fingerprinting is widely applied for indoor localization due to the widespread availability of Wi-Fi devices. However, traditional methods are not ideal for multi-building and multi-floor environments due to the scalability issues.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Sihao Li , Zhe Tang , Kyeong Soo Kim , Jeremy S. Smith

Medium Access Control (MAC) address randomization is a key component for privacy protection in Wi-Fi networks. Current proposals periodically change the mobile device MAC addresses when it disconnects from the Access Point (AP). This way…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Hongyu Jin , Panos Papadimitratos

This paper proposes recurrent neuron networks (RNNs) for a fingerprinting indoor localization using WiFi. Instead of locating user's position one at a time as in the cases of conventional algorithms, our RNN solution aims at trajectory…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-09 Minh Tu Hoang , Brosnan Yuen , Xiaodai Dong , Tao Lu , Robert Westendorp , Kishore Reddy