{"title":"Visible light networking and sensing","authors":"Xia Zhou, A. Campbell","doi":"10.1145/2643614.2643621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2643614.2643621","url":null,"abstract":"We propose for the first time an integrated Visible Light Communication (iVLC) system, which combines scalable VLC networking and accurate VLC sensing of mobile users. To meet this goal, we envision using modulated LED lights for communications between networked devices, while at the same time using the very same lights to accurately identify and track users, and importantly, sense and infer their gestures (e.g., pointing to an object in the room) as a means of collecting user analytics and enabling interactions with objects in smart spaces. Enabling the iVLC vision requires reliable VLC networking and robust VLC sensing. We discuss the key research components and open challenges in realizing this vision. By combining VLC networking and sensing, iVLC opens the way for a new class of context-aware applications and a new HCI paradigm not possible before.","PeriodicalId":399028,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Hot topics in wireless","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129836499","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":"In-band wireless cut-through: is it possible?","authors":"Bo Chen, G. Tummala, Yue Qiao, K. Srinivasan","doi":"10.1145/2643614.2643623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2643614.2643623","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores if wireless cut-through is possible. Unlike wired cut-through, wireless cut-through, if realized, can reduce latency and improve throughput by upto 3x. This paper shows that one way to implement cut-through is for every node to forward the previously decoded packet while receiving the current packet. This strategy is called decode-and-forward D&F). Another way is to have every node forward without decoding. This strategy is called amplify-and-forward (A&F). This paper shows that both D&F and A&F have many shortcomings. It proposes a new way to realize cut-through that reduces latency and increases throughput over traditional routing. This paper implements the first cut-through routing modules. Through multiple emulations of existing operational networks, it shows that cut-through switching can improve sum network throughput by up to 2.2x compared to traditional routing.","PeriodicalId":399028,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Hot topics in wireless","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117064970","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":"Using your smartphone to detect and map heterogeneous networks and devices in the home","authors":"George Nychis, S. Seshan, P. Steenkiste","doi":"10.1145/2643614.2643624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2643614.2643624","url":null,"abstract":"Heterogeneity in the wireless spectrum is an increasing problem which breaks down coordination and exacerbates wireless interference. In particular, this is a growing problem in the home: heterogeneity is increasing, yet there is a lack of tools and expertise in the home to gather the necessary information about its RF environment to combat this issue. In this paper, we present a unique monitoring system design which leverages the smartphone: now commodity, flexible and familiar to the home user, and equipped with multiple heterogeneous for sensing. Our design overcomes challenges inherent to monitoring with the phone (e.g., it is location agnostic without in-door localization) to derive where signals go and what they interfere with. It does so only requiring simple user-interaction, and as we will show, can bring the information to a level the user can understand.","PeriodicalId":399028,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Hot topics in wireless","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125436575","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}
A. Nika, Zengbin Zhang, Xia Zhou, Ben Y. Zhao, Haitao Zheng
{"title":"Towards commoditized real-time spectrum monitoring","authors":"A. Nika, Zengbin Zhang, Xia Zhou, Ben Y. Zhao, Haitao Zheng","doi":"10.1145/2643614.2643615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2643614.2643615","url":null,"abstract":"We are facing an increasingly difficult challenge in spectrum management: how to perform real-time spectrum monitoring with strong coverage of deployed regions. Today's spectrum measurements are carried out by government employees driving around with specialized hardware that is usually bulky and expensive, making the task of gathering real-time, large-scale spectrum monitoring data extremely difficult and cost prohibitive. In this paper, we propose a solution to the spectrum monitoring problem by leveraging the power of the masses, i.e. millions of wireless users, using low-cost, commoditized spectrum monitoring hardware. We envision an ecosystem where crowdsourced smartphone users perform automated and continuous spectrum measurements using their mobile devices, and report the results to a monitoring agency in real-time. We perform an initial feasibility study to verify the efficacy of our mobile monitoring platform compared to that of conventional monitoring devices like USRP GNU radios. Results indicate that commoditized real-time spectrum monitoring is indeed feasible in the near future. We conclude by presenting a set of open challenges and potential directions for follow-up research.","PeriodicalId":399028,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Hot topics in wireless","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126552407","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":"Shape matters, not the size: a new approach to extract secrets from channel","authors":"Yue Qiao, K. Srinivasan, A. Arora","doi":"10.1145/2643614.2643618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2643614.2643618","url":null,"abstract":"Existing secret key extraction techniques use quantization to map wireless channel amplitudes to secret bits. This paper shows that such techniques are highly prone to environment and local noise effects: They have very high mismatch rates between the two nodes that measure the channel between them. This paper advocates using the shape of the channel instead of the size (or amplitude) of the channel. It shows that this new paradigm shift is significantly robust against environmental and local noises. We refer to this shape-based technique as Puzzle. Implementation in a software-defined radio (SDR) platform demonstrates that Puzzle has a 63% reduction in bit mismatch rate than the state-of-art frequency domain approach (CSI-2bit). Experiments also show that unlike the state-of-the-art received signal strength (RSS)-based methods like ASBG, Puzzle is robust against an attack in which an eavesdropper can predict the secret bits using planned movements.","PeriodicalId":399028,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Hot topics in wireless","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132129849","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}
Mahanth K. Gowda, Nirupam Roy, Romit Roy Choudhury, Srihari Nelakuditi
{"title":"Backing out of linear backoff in wireless networks","authors":"Mahanth K. Gowda, Nirupam Roy, Romit Roy Choudhury, Srihari Nelakuditi","doi":"10.1145/2643614.2643622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2643614.2643622","url":null,"abstract":"This paper revisits the randomized backoff problem in CSMA networks and identifies opportunities of improvement. The key observation is that today's backoff operation, such as in WiFi, attempts to create a total ordering among all nodes contending for the channel. Total ordering indeed assigns a unique backoff to each node (thus avoiding collisions), but pays the penalty of choosing the random back-offs from a large range, ultimately translating to channel wastage. We envision breaking away from total ordering. Briefly, we force nodes to pick random numbers from a smaller range, so that groups of nodes pick the same random number (i.e., partial order). Now, the group that picks the smallest number - the winners - is advanced to a second round, where they again perform the same operation. We show that narrowing down the contenders through multiple rounds improves channel utilization. The intuition is that time for partially ordering all nodes plus totally ordering each small group is actually less than the time needed to totally order all nodes. We instantiate the idea with two well known CSMA protocols - WiFi and oCSMA. We resolve new challenges regarding multi domain contentions and group signaling. USRP and simulation based microbenchmarks are promising. We believe the idea of \"hierarchical backoff\" applies to other CSMA systems as well, exploration of which is left to future work.","PeriodicalId":399028,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Hot topics in wireless","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121174446","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":"Your AP knows how you move: fine-grained device motion recognition through WiFi","authors":"Yunze Zeng, P. Pathak, Chao Xu, P. Mohapatra","doi":"10.1145/2643614.2643620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2643614.2643620","url":null,"abstract":"Recent WiFi standards use Channel State Information (CSI) feedback for better MIMO and rate adaptation. CSI provides detailed information about current channel conditions for different subcarriers and spatial streams. In this paper, we show that CSI feedback from a client to the AP can be used to recognize different fine-grained motions of the client. We find that CSI can not only identify if the client is in motion or not, but also classify different types of motions. To this end, we propose APsense, a framework that uses CSI to estimate the sensor patterns of the client. It is observed that client's sensor (e.g. accelerometer) values are correlated to CSI values available at the AP. We show that using simple machine learning classifiers, APsense can classify different motions with accuracy as high as 90%.","PeriodicalId":399028,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Hot topics in wireless","volume":" 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131976214","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":"Synchronicity: pushing the envelope of fine-grained localization with distributed mimo","authors":"Jie Xiong, K. Jamieson, K. Sundaresan","doi":"10.1145/2643614.2643619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2643614.2643619","url":null,"abstract":"Indoor localization of mobile devices and tags has received much attention recently, with encouraging fine-grained localization results available with enough line-of-sight coverage and enough hardware infrastructure. Synchronicity is a location system that aims to push the envelope of highly-accurate localization systems further in both dimensions, requiring less line-of-sight and less infrastructure. With Distributed MIMO network of wireless LAN access points (APs) as a starting point, we leverage the time synchronization that such a network affords to localize with time-difference-of-arrival information at the APs. We contribute novel super-resolution signal processing algorithms and reflection path elimination schemes, yielding superior results even in non-line-of-sight scenarios (with one to two walls separating client and APs). We implement and briefly evaluate Synchronicity on the WARP hardware radio platform using standard 20~MHz wireless LAN channels.","PeriodicalId":399028,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Hot topics in wireless","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121401186","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":"Harmonia: wideband spreading for accurate indoor rf localization","authors":"B. Kempke, P. Pannuto, P. Dutta","doi":"10.1145/2643614.2643616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2643614.2643616","url":null,"abstract":"We introduce Harmonia, a new RF-based localization scheme that provides the simplicity, cost, and power advantages of traditional narrowband radios with the decimeter-scale accuracy of ultra wideband localization techniques. Harmonia is an asymmetric tag and anchor system, requiring minimal modifications to existing low-power wireless devices to support high-fidelity localization with comparatively modest infrastructure costs. A prototype Harmonia design offers location estimates with an average-case error of 53.4 cm in complex, heavy-multipath, indoor environments and captures location estimates at 56 Hz while requiring only 1.7 mA additional power draw for each tag and complying with all US UWB regulations. We believe this architecture's combination of accuracy, update rate, power draw, and system complexity will lead to a new point in the design space.","PeriodicalId":399028,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Hot topics in wireless","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121376275","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":"Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Hot topics in wireless","authors":"Shyamnath Gollakota, Deepak Ganesan","doi":"10.1145/2643614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2643614","url":null,"abstract":"It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 4th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Wireless, focused on disruptive wireless technologies and systems that can enable orders of magnitude improvements in performance and novel wireless applications. Our goal is to provide a launching pad for bold and visionary ideas, and bring together experts in hardware, physical layer, networks, and systems to address core technical challenges in these emerging wireless technologies. HotWireless will provide a venue for debating future research agendas, technology trends, and application domains of wireless technology, and for presenting innovative and/or risky ideas that have potential for significant impact. \u0000 \u0000The call for papers attracted submissions from Asia, Europe, and the United States. The program committee reviewed 16 submissions and accepted 10 technical papers to appear in the program. We also encourage attendees to attend the keynote and invited talk presentations. These valuable and insightful talks can and will guide us to a better understanding of the future: \u0000Is Wireless Research Still Hot: A Perspective from the National Science Foundation, Thyaga Nandagopal (NSF) \u0000Device-Free Decade: the Past and Future of RF Sensing Systems, Neal Patwari (University of Utah)","PeriodicalId":399028,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Hot topics in wireless","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129203394","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}