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Accurate wireless timing synchronization has been an extremely important topic in wireless sensor networks, required in applications ranging from distributed beam forming to precision localization and navigation. However, it is very…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-09-29 Marcelo Segura , S. Niranjayan , Hossein Hashemi , Andreas F. Molisch

Remote SIM provisioning (RSP) for consumer devices is the protocol specified by the GSM Association for downloading SIM profiles into a secure element in a mobile device. The process is commonly known as eSIM, and it is expected to replace…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Abu Shohel Ahmed , Aleksi Peltonen , Mohit Sethi , Tuomas Aura

Wireless communications for status update are becoming increasingly important, especially for machine-type control applications. Existing work has been mainly focused on Age of Information (AoI) optimizations. In this paper, a status-aware…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Zhiyuan Jiang , Zixu Cao , Siyu Fu , Fei Peng , Shan Cao , Shunqing Zhang , Shugong Xu

In this paper, conditional denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) are proposed to enhance the data transmission and reconstruction over wireless channels. The underlying mechanism of DDPM is to decompose the data generation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Mehdi Letafati , Samad Ali , Matti Latva-aho

While commonly used for communication purposes, an increasing number of recent studies consider WiFi for sensing. In particular, wireless signals are altered (e.g., reflected and attenuated) by the human body and objects in the environment.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Philipp H. Kindt , Cristian Turetta , Florenc Demrozi , Alejandro Masrur , Graziano Pravadelli , Samarjit Chakraborty

Due to the openness of the wireless medium, smartphone users are susceptible to user privacy attacks, where user privacy information is inferred from encrypted Wi-Fi wireless traffic. Existing attacks are limited to recognizing mobile apps…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Yong Huang , Zhibo Dong , Xiaoguang Yang , Dalong Zhang , Qingxian Wang , Zhihua Wang

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) has been richly 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 pragmatic to…

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

While smartphones and WiFi networks are bringing many positive changes to people's lives, they are susceptible to traffic analysis attacks, which infer user's private information from encrypted traffic. Existing traffic analysis attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Xiaoguang Yang , Yong Huang , Junli Guo , Dalong Zhang , Qingxian Wang

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

The problem of finding an optimal sensing schedule for a mobile device that encounters an intermittent WiFi access opportunity is considered. At any given time, the WiFi is in any of the two modes, ON or OFF, and the mobile's incentive is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Abhinav Kumar , Rahul Vaze , Sibi Raj B Pillai , Aditya Gopalan

To continuously monitor mobility flows aboard public transportation, low-cost data collection methods based on the passive detection of Wi-Fi signals are promising technological solutions, but they yield uncertain results. We assess the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-14 Léa Fabre , Caroline Bayart , Alexandre Nicolas , Patrick Bonnel

Many recent works have explored using WiFi-based sensing to improve SLAM, robot manipulation, or exploration. Moreover, widespread availability makes WiFi the most advantageous RF signal to leverage. But WiFi sensors lack an accurate,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-24 William Hunter , Aditya Arun , Dinesh Bharadia

RF fingerprinting leverages circuit-level variability of transmitters to identify them using signals they send. Signals used for identification are impacted by a wireless channel and receiver circuitry, creating additional impairments that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-13 Samer Hanna , Samurdhi Karunaratne , Danijela Cabric

The emerging convergence of next-generation wireless networks and agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is inspiring a new vision: embodied intelligent network entities utilize environmental sensing to refine their physical-layer (PHY)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Haotian Zhang , Shijian Gao , Xiang Cheng

This letter investigates the performance of emerging wireless communication systems assisted by a fluid reconfigurable intelligent surface (FRIS). Unlike conventional reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), an FRIS consists of…

Abstract. Since the introduction of active discovery in Wi-Fi networks, users can be tracked via their probe requests. Although manufacturers typically try to conceal Media Access Control (MAC) addresses using MAC address randomisation,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Johanna Ansohn McDougall , Alessandro Brighente , Anne Kunstmann , Niklas Zapatka , Hannes Federrath

Probe requests help mobile devices discover active Wi-Fi networks. They often contain a multitude of data that can be used to identify and track devices and thereby their users. The past years have been a cat-and-mouse game of improving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Johanna Ansohn McDougall , Christian Burkert , Daniel Demmler , Monina Schwarz , Vincent Hubbe , Hannes Federrath

Recent advancements in smart radio environment technologies aim to enhance wireless network performance through the use of low-cost electromagnetic (EM) devices. Among these, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have garnered attention…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Silvia Palmucci , Andrea Abrardo , Davide Dardari , Alberto Toccafondi , Marco Di Renzo

Performance characterization is a fundamental issue in wireless networks for real time routing, wireless network simulation, and etc. There are four basic wireless operations that are required to be modeled, i.e., unicast, anycast,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Zhiwei Zhao , Wei Dong , Jie Yu , Tao Gu , Jiajun Bu