{"title":"Vetting Privacy Policies in VR: A Data Minimization Principle Perspective","authors":"Yuxia Zhan, Yan Meng, Lu Zhou, Haojin Zhu","doi":"10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS57453.2023.10225937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS57453.2023.10225937","url":null,"abstract":"Virtual Reality is thought to be the prototype of the next-generation Internet, consisting of more I/O devices and interactive methods than traditional mobile systems. Hence VR developers need to inform users what data is collected and shared, which is generally conveyed by privacy policies. Existing research has examined the consistency between the VR app's privacy policy and its corresponding actual behaviors. However, few studies paid attention to the data minimization principle, i.e., whether a privacy policy claims to collect no more data than it practically needs to implement the app's functionalities. In this poster, we targeted a mainstream VR platform and analyzed the data minimization principle compliance of privacy policies for all 1,726 VR apps in this platform. Experiment results show that 48.1 % VR apps potentially violate the data minimization principle. Moreover, the comparative experiments reveal significant differences in the distribution of data collection between VR and non-VR apps.","PeriodicalId":354290,"journal":{"name":"IEEE INFOCOM 2023 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121318727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Workshop on Next-generation Open and Programmable Radio Access Networks (NG-OPERA)","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/infocomwkshps57453.2023.10225867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/infocomwkshps57453.2023.10225867","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":354290,"journal":{"name":"IEEE INFOCOM 2023 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121149721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tandem Attack: DDoS Attack on Microservices Auto-scaling Mechanisms","authors":"A. Bremler-Barr, Michael Czeizler","doi":"10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS57453.2023.10225976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS57453.2023.10225976","url":null,"abstract":"Today's software development landscape has witnessed a shift towards microservices architectures [6]. Using this approach, large software systems are composed of multiple separate microservices, each responsible for specific tasks. The breakdown to microservices is also reflected in the infrastructure, where individual microservices can be executed with different hardware configurations and scaling properties [8]. As systems grow larger, incoming traffic can trigger multiple calls between different microservices to handle each request [9].","PeriodicalId":354290,"journal":{"name":"IEEE INFOCOM 2023 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116335637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Content-Aware Semantic Communication for Goal-Oriented Wireless Communications","authors":"Yuzhou Fu, Wenchi Cheng, Wei Zhang","doi":"10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS57453.2023.10226153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS57453.2023.10226153","url":null,"abstract":"While semantic communications can remarkably reduce the amount of the data transmission traffic without missing critical information, its applications to the efficient goal-oriented wireless communications remain limited. In this paper, we proposed the Content-Aware Semantic Communication (CA-SC) framework, which fuses both global and task-related semantic information via the semantic decoder, thus achieving the goal-oriented wireless communications. In particular, the CA-SC is based on the attention map to locate the task-related semantic information for supporting an adaptive rate allocation scheme. In order to further improve the coding rate as well as reconstructing intended data, we formulate a rate-distortion optimization problem as the loss function for the CA-SC framework, which aims to jointly optimize the semantic codec and the channel codec. Numerical results show that the CA-SC scheme can achieve better performance compared with existing semantic codec scheme and the traditional codec scheme in the image reconstruction task and the object detection task.","PeriodicalId":354290,"journal":{"name":"IEEE INFOCOM 2023 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126689191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhance Detection of SSVEPs through a Sinusoidal-Referenced Task-Related Component Analysis Method","authors":"Zhenyu Wang, Tianheng Xu, Xianfu Chen, Ting Zhou, Honglin Hu, Celimuge Wu","doi":"10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS57453.2023.10226001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS57453.2023.10226001","url":null,"abstract":"The brain-computer interface (BCI) technology is deemed a pivotal technology in future wireless communication systems, e.g. 6G, for its capability to connect a brain and a machine. The device, paradigm, and algorithm are three most important aspects of a practical BCI. Among them, the detection algorithm has a decisive impact on the efficiency and robustness of the system. Great potential of artificial intelligence (AI) for decoding brains signals is also revealed. In this paper, we propose a new detection algorithm for the steady-state visual-evoked potential (SSVEP) based BCI, which is a typical noninvasive BCI paradigm and achieves by far the highest information transfer rate (ITR) among various noninvasive systems. The new algorithm is termed sinusoidal-referenced task-related component analysis (srTRCA). It resembles conventional algorithms like TRCA in the way that it is also based on spatial filtering and template matching. However, compared with conventional algorithms like TRCA, srTRCA makes better use of the prior knowledge of the SSVEP signal being sinusoidal. By introducing a new item which characterizes the correlation between the task-related component and sinusoidal reference to its objective function, srTRCA is expected to achieve an enhanced detection performance, especially in the situation where training is insufficient. The performance of srTRCA is tested on a benchmark SSVEP dataset which includes 35 subjects. Three algorithms are taken as baselines with them being canonical correlation analysis (CCA), TRCA, and similarity-constrained TRCA (scTRCA). Results show that srTRCA achieves a fair performance enhancement compared with three baselines. The validity of the proposed srTRCA algorithm is proved.","PeriodicalId":354290,"journal":{"name":"IEEE INFOCOM 2023 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126527908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chenye Qiu, Xianbin Wang, Weiming Shen, Richard Lee
{"title":"Dynamic Construction and Adaptation of 3D Virtual Network Topology for UAV-Assisted Data Collection","authors":"Chenye Qiu, Xianbin Wang, Weiming Shen, Richard Lee","doi":"10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS57453.2023.10225833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS57453.2023.10225833","url":null,"abstract":"Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) assisted data collection from on ground devices and sensors is becoming more useful in many mission-critical applications. However, meeting the data collection requirements under dynamic channel conditions between the UAV and on ground devices relies on frequent information exchanges, which brings great challenges to the dynamic operation of the integrated UAV network due to its inherent complexity. To rapidly obtain a holistic view in assisting the UAV network operation, we first propose a three-dimensional (3D) virtual network topology which helps the UAV to make faster decisions by analyzing refined virtual indicators instead of measuring and processing related physical factors frequently in real time. To improve the efficiency of UAV data collection, dynamic adaptation of the 3D virtual network topology is achieved by a deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) based algorithm, where the UAV flying speed and direction, as well as the determination of the target group of on ground devices are optimized under the UAV energy constraint. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed DDPG-based dynamic adaptation of the 3D virtual network topology can effectively improve the data collection efficiency compared with the benchmark solutions.","PeriodicalId":354290,"journal":{"name":"IEEE INFOCOM 2023 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127963783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Second International IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Distributed Machine Learning and Fog Networks (FOGML)","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/infocomwkshps57453.2023.10225795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/infocomwkshps57453.2023.10225795","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":354290,"journal":{"name":"IEEE INFOCOM 2023 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127558956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Oren Rodney Collaco, M. R. Chowdhury, Aloizio Pereira da Silva, L. Dasilva
{"title":"Enabling CBRS Experimentation through an OpenSAS and SDR-based CBSD","authors":"Oren Rodney Collaco, M. R. Chowdhury, Aloizio Pereira da Silva, L. Dasilva","doi":"10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS57453.2023.10225978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS57453.2023.10225978","url":null,"abstract":"The increased demand for spectrum has motivated the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to open band 48, also known as the Citizen Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band, spanning 3.55 to 3.7 GHz, for shared wireless broadband use. Access and operations in the CBRS band is managed by a dynamic Spectrum Access System (SAS) that enables seamless spectrum sharing between incumbent and secondary users. In this paper, we demonstrate an enhanced version of an open source SAS [1], OpenSAS, with added functionality to showcase interaction between General Authorized Access (GAA) and Priority Access License (PAL) user tiers. We further showcase the use of the Google SAS Test Environment [2] with OpenSAS and a Software-defined Radio (SDR)-based CBRS Base Station Device (CBSD) developed by our team. Spectrum sharing is achieved by using a client on the CBSD that is in continuous communication with the SAS to conform to its spectrum usage and transmission power rules at a given location. Our demo steps through the entire SAS-CBSD cycle which includes registration, spectrum inquiry, grant request, heartbeat request, grant relinquishment, and de-registration.","PeriodicalId":354290,"journal":{"name":"IEEE INFOCOM 2023 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127414477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dimensioning Wireless Embedded Test Environments to Support Continuous Integration","authors":"Matevz Vucnik, C. Fortuna, M. Mohorčič","doi":"10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS57453.2023.10225906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS57453.2023.10225906","url":null,"abstract":"Software development and testing is a complex process involving skilled people and infrastructure. A mix of evolving organizational practices, development practices and infrastructure contribute to the efficiency of the overall process, which is relatively well understood for general-purpose development. The development of wireless firmware and its testing in a real environment, however, is notably more challenging because the code needs to be compiled, uploaded and tested on target embedded hardware instead of a general-purpose computer. This requires purposefully developed testing infrastructure that needs to be optimally dimensioned to satisfy the needs of the development team. In this paper, we propose a capacity dimensioning of the supporting infrastructure illustrated in a reference case study. In particular, our capacity dimensioning simulator shows that for a team of 10 developers, only 1–2 parallel embedded test environments are needed to ensure test completion in less than 10 minutes in 95 % of the cases.","PeriodicalId":354290,"journal":{"name":"IEEE INFOCOM 2023 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124425476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}