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In this article, the issue of guarding multi-agent systems against a sequence of intruder attacks through mobile heterogeneous guards (guards with different ranges) is discussed. The article makes use of graph theoretic abstractions of such…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Waseem Abbas , Sajal Bhatia , Xenofon Koutsoukos

This paper investigates the localization problem of a network in 2-D and 3-D spaces given the positions of anchor nodes in a global frame and inter-node relative measurements in local coordinate frames. It is assumed that the local frames…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-20 Xu Fang , Xiaolei Li , Lihua Xie

A new method for estimating the relative positions of location-unaware nodes from the location-aware nodes and the received signal strength (RSS) between the nodes, in a wireless sensor network (WSN), is proposed. In the method, a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-02-11 R. C. Nongpiur

Inferring the location of a mobile device in an indoor setting is an open problem of utmost significance. A leading approach that does not require the deployment of expensive infrastructure is fingerprinting, where a classifier is trained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Erez Peterfreund , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis , Ariel Jaffe

We address the problem of timing-based localization in wireless networks, when an unknown fraction of data is corrupted by nonideal signal conditions. While timing-based techniques enable accurate localization, they are also sensitive to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Muhammad Osama , Dave Zachariah , Satyam Dwivedi , Petre Stoica

We propose integer-programming formulations for an optimal safety-landing site (SLS) location problem that arises in the design of urban air-transportation networks. We first develop a set-cover based approach for the case where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Claudia D'Ambrosio , Marcia Fampa , Jon Lee , Felipe Sinnecker

Location privacy is one of the major security problems in a Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). An eavesdropper can keep track of the place and time devices are communicating. To make things even worse, the attacker does not have to be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-03-18 Mohammed Mana , Mohammed Feham , Boucif Amar Bensaber

Covert wireless communication aims to establish a reliable link while hiding the transmission from an adversary. In wireless settings, uncertainty plays a central role in this tradeoff: it can help mask the signal from a warden, but it also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Abbas Arghavani

Localization plays an essential role in many ubiquitous computing applications. While the outdoor location-aware services based on GPS are becoming increasingly popular, their proliferation to indoor environments is limited due to the lack…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-08-08 Andrei Popleteev , Venet Osmani , Oscar Mayora

In this paper we consider graph-coloring problems, an important subset of general constraint satisfaction problems that arise in wireless resource allocation. We constructively establish the existence of fully decentralized learning-based…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Alessandro Checco , Douglas Leith

Localization in mobile networks has been widely applied in many scenarios. However, an entity responsible for location estimation exposes both the target and anchors to potential location leakage at any time, creating serious security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Liangbo Xie , Mude Cai , Xiaolong Yang , Mu Zhou , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have recently gained a lot of attention by scientific community. Small and inexpensive devices with low energy consumption and limited computing resources are increasingly being adopted in different…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-12-17 Asma Mesmoudi , Mohammed Feham , Nabila Labraoui

Indoor localization has recently witnessed an increase in interest, due to the potential wide range of services it can provide by leveraging Internet of Things (IoT), and ubiquitous connectivity. Different techniques, wireless technologies…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Faheem Zafari , Athanasios Gkelias , Kin Leung

The availability of positional information is of great importance in many commercial, governmental, and military applications. Localization is commonly accomplished through the use of radio communication between mobile devices (agents) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yuan Shen , Henk Wymeersch , Moe Z. Win

Wireless sensor networks have emerged as an important and new area in wireless and mobile computing research because of their numerous potential applications that range from indoor deployment scenarios in home and office to outdoor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-08-13 Jaydip Sen

We study the problem of colouring the vertices of a polygon, such that every viewer in it can see a unique colour. The goal is to minimise the number of colours used. This is also known as the conflict-free chromatic guarding problem with…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Onur Çağırıcı , Subir Kumar Ghosh , Petr Hliněný , Bodhayan Roy

Terahertz (THz) communications are celebrated as key enablers for converged localization and sensing in future sixth-generation (6G) wireless communication systems and beyond. Instead of being a byproduct of the communication system,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-16 Hui Chen , Hadi Sarieddeen , Tarig Ballal , Henk Wymeersch , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as aerial base stations, are a promising solution for providing wireless communications, thanks to their high flexibility and autonomy. Moreover, emerging services, such as extended reality, require…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Javad Sabzehali , Vijay K. Shah , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Jeffrey H. Reed

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when cellular networks go down. Prior studies on UAV-based wireless coverage typically consider downlink scenarios from an aerial base station to ground users. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Hazim Shakhatreh , Abdallah Khreishah

Wi-Fi sensing has been extensively explored for various applications, including vital sign monitoring, human activity recognition, indoor localization, and tracking. However, practical implementation in real-world scenarios is hindered by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 He Wang , Yunpeng Ge , Ivan Wang-Hei Ho