Giannis Kazdaridis, Ioannis Zographopoulos, N. Sidiropoulos, Polychronis Symeonidis, T. Korakis
{"title":"Demo: Nano Power Draw in Duty-Cycled Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"Giannis Kazdaridis, Ioannis Zographopoulos, N. Sidiropoulos, Polychronis Symeonidis, T. Korakis","doi":"10.1145/3349623.3355478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3349623.3355478","url":null,"abstract":"In this work we present a novel power management architecture for Wireless Sensor Network devices towards minimizing the power consumption when nodes remain in sleep state. Specifically, we propose the employment of an on-board timer circuit that consumes only few nano Amperes, along with a power switch that controls the power rail of the under consideration node. According to our principle, the node remains solely disconnected from power when in sleep state in an effort to minimize the quiescent draw, while the timer is responsible for reinforcing the node back in active mode when required. Our implementation achieves the minimization of power draw in sleep state down to 33 nA, while it can easily be integrated with any IoT platform.","PeriodicalId":403596,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation & Characterization","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134101856","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":"Poster: Secure Visible Light Communication via Two-Dimensional Spatially Aliased Patterns","authors":"Hao Pan, Yi-Chao Chen, Guangtao Xue","doi":"10.1145/3349623.3355724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3349623.3355724","url":null,"abstract":"Screen-camera communication has attracted considerable attention as a form of visible light communication (VLC) using commercial-off-the-shelf devices. Nonetheless, the security of screen-camera communications in mobile applications has largely been disregarded, despite the fact that information displayed on an open screen is easily intercepted. One-way communication systems also make it difficult to add security features. In this paper, we propose a secure screen-camera communication system in which a visual encryption algorithm is designed to camouflage transmitted images between the screen and camera. When the targeted receiver holds a camera in a designated viewing position (i.e., directly in front of the screen at a distance of 50cm), the camouflaged image is revealed due to aliasing effect. From any other position, only the camouflaged image can be seen.","PeriodicalId":403596,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation & Characterization","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124794177","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}
Giannis Kazdaridis, Stratos Keranidis, Polychronis Symeonidis, Panagiotis Tzimotoudis, Ioannis Zographopoulos, P. Skrimponis, T. Korakis
{"title":"Evaluation of LoRa Performance in a City-wide Testbed: Experimentation Insights and Findings","authors":"Giannis Kazdaridis, Stratos Keranidis, Polychronis Symeonidis, Panagiotis Tzimotoudis, Ioannis Zographopoulos, P. Skrimponis, T. Korakis","doi":"10.1145/3349623.3355474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3349623.3355474","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a LoRa based city-scale testbed that employs several sensing devices scattered across the urban area to characterize air quality and weather conditions in real-time. The installation is augmented through a custom link quality evaluation framework that continuously monitors the Packet Delivery Ratio versus RSSI relation to characterize the performance of LoRa standard under realistic conditions. Experimental results, collected over a period of 2 months, efficiently analyze LoRa's performance across a wide range of protocol configurations. Finally, we also present in-lab experiments that characterize the efficiency of LoRa modules in terms of power and energy efficiency per bit, along with valuable insights aimed at the development of energy efficient protocol improvements.","PeriodicalId":403596,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation & Characterization","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125400673","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":"Time-of-flight Wireless Indoor Navigation System for Industrial Environment","authors":"Maurizio Rea, Héctor Cordobés, D. Giustiniano","doi":"10.1145/3349623.3355476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3349623.3355476","url":null,"abstract":"We introduce TWINS, Time-of-flight based Wireless Indoor Navigation System, that estimates in near real-time the position of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) devices equipped with WiFi. TWINS uses COTS WiFi Access Points (APs) and it does not require access to any inertial sensors on the mobile devices. We study the performance of TWINS in a harsh environment, strongly affected by the presence of metallic objects. The scenario can be considered representative of an industrial indoor environment with open spaces surrounded by metal obstacles. We experimentally show that our system can localize four mobile robots tracked together, with median error between 1.8 and 3.8 m.","PeriodicalId":403596,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation & Characterization","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134137465","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}
Panagiotis Tzimotoudis, Stratos Keranidis, Giannis Kazdaridis, Polychronis Symeonidis, T. Korakis
{"title":"Demo: LoRa Mesh Network Experimentation in a City-Wide Testbed","authors":"Panagiotis Tzimotoudis, Stratos Keranidis, Giannis Kazdaridis, Polychronis Symeonidis, T. Korakis","doi":"10.1145/3349623.3355479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3349623.3355479","url":null,"abstract":"LoRa is a low-power long-range Internet of Things (IoT) standard that offers remarkable performance, especially in remote rural areas. However the single-hop nature of current LoRa networks, poses significant challenges for urban setups and complex network environments, where several gateways with network access need to be deployed to offer the required connectivity. Towards overcoming the connectivity inefficiency of LoRa in relevant environments, the application of mesh networking has been identified as a candidate solution with rich potential. In this work, we present a LoRa based mesh networking tool for LoRa mesh experimentation that is currently applied in testbed of 10 LoRa mesh capable devices across the city area of Volos, Greece.","PeriodicalId":403596,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation & Characterization","volume":"1996 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127322515","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":"Learning from Industrial Ixperimental Research","authors":"Ilias Leontiadis, Diego Perino","doi":"10.1145/3349623.3361681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3349623.3361681","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, we observed an increased importance of experimental and empirical work on wireless research. In this talk we will thus describe industrial testbeds and operational environments and the research that can be done on them. Specifically, we will focus on Telefonica and Samsung research providing examples on operational cellular networks, mobile edge computing testbeds, and IoT labs. We will talk about the applications we tackled in this testbeds, analytics and machine learning algorithms we developed and measurements studies. Finally, we will overview 5G testbeds as well as, other open mobile testbeds.","PeriodicalId":403596,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation & Characterization","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131332564","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}
F. Gringoli, Matthias Schulz, Jakob Link, M. Hollick
{"title":"Free Your CSI: A Channel State Information Extraction Platform For Modern Wi-Fi Chipsets","authors":"F. Gringoli, Matthias Schulz, Jakob Link, M. Hollick","doi":"10.1145/3349623.3355477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3349623.3355477","url":null,"abstract":"Modern wireless transmission systems heavily benefit from knowing the channel response. The evaluation of Channel State Information (CSI) during the reception of a frame preamble is fundamental to properly equalizing the rest of the transmission at the receiver side. Reporting this state information back to the transmitter facilitates mechanisms such as beamforming and MIMO, thus boosting the network performance. While these features are an integral part of standards such as 802.11ac, accessing CSI data on commercial devices is either not possible, limited to outdated chipsets or very inflexible. This hinders the research and development of innovative CSI-dependent techniques including localization, object tracking, and interference evaluation. To help researchers and practitioners, we introduce the nexmon CSI Extractor Tool. It allows per-frame CSI extraction for up to four spatial streams using up to four receive chains on modern Broadcom and Cypress Wi-Fi chips with up to 80MHz bandwidth in both the 2.4 and 5GHz bands. The tool supports devices ranging from the low-cost Raspberry Pi platform, over mobile platforms such as Nexus smartphones to state-of-the-art Wi-Fi APs. We release all tools and Wi-Fi firmware patches as extensible open source project. It includes our user-friendly smartphone application to demonstrate the CSI extraction capabilities in form of a waterfall diagram.","PeriodicalId":403596,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation & Characterization","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116987318","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}
L. Bertizzolo, Leonardo Bonati, Emrecan Demirors, T. Melodia
{"title":"Arena: A 64-antenna SDR-based Ceiling Grid Testbed for Sub-6 GHz Radio Spectrum Research","authors":"L. Bertizzolo, Leonardo Bonati, Emrecan Demirors, T. Melodia","doi":"10.1145/3349623.3355473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3349623.3355473","url":null,"abstract":"Arena is an open-access wireless testing platform based on a grid of antennas mounted on the ceiling of a large office-space environment. Each antenna is connected to programmable software-defined radios enabling sub-6 GHz 5G-and-beyond spectrum research. With 12 computational servers, 24 software defined radios synchronized at the symbol level, and a total of 64 antennas, Arena provides the computational power and the scale to foster new technology development in some of the most crowded spectrum bands. Arena is based on a clean three-tier design, where the servers and the software defined radios are housed in a double rack in a dedicated room, while the antennas are hung off the ceiling of a 2240 square feet office space and cabled to the radios through 100 ft long cables. This ensures a reconfigurable, scalable, and repeatable real-time experimental evaluation in a real wireless indoor environment. This article introduces for the first time architecture, capabilities, and system design choices of Arena, and provide details of the software and hardware implementation of the different testbed components. Finally, we showcase some of the capabilities of Arena in providing a testing ground for key wireless technologies, including synchronized MIMO transmission schemes, multi-hop ad hoc networking, multi-cell LTE networks, and spectrum sensing for cognitive radio.","PeriodicalId":403596,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation & Characterization","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121028730","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":"Enabling OFDMA in Wireless Backscatter","authors":"Xiaohua Tian","doi":"10.1145/3349623.3355483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3349623.3355483","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless backscatter communication can provide ultra-low power backhaul to Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, which usually have very limited energy budgets. With proliferation of IoT widgets into human activities, an important design goal for the backhaul is to connect as many devices as possible, which are featured by short bursts of data. The crux to achieve this goal is to enhance concurrency of the wireless backscatter network, so that many concurrent transmissions can be supported. Orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) is a multiple access mechanism based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), which is a multi-carrier modulation mechanism widely used in modern wireless systems including 802.11 a/g/n/ac, 4G and 5G. This talk focuses on how to enable OFDMA in the wireless backscatter network, which not only maintains the advantage of ultra-low power consumption but also improve the system concurrency. The major challenge for enabling OFDMA in wireless backscatter is to achieve the strict synchronization in both time and frequency domain. In fact, the synchronization is critical for all the OFDMA systems; however, in the OFDMA backscatter network, the signal at the receiver side is reflected from backscattering devices (tags), thus introduce more opportunities for offsets in both time and frequency domain, which incurs new challenges in the system design. This talk presents the major challenges in realizing OFDMA backscatter network, and provide our solutions to deal with those problems. The design for excitation signal transmitter, tag and receiver will be explained. The phenomena we observed in realizing the system will be illustrated. Moreover, the new issues discovered in existing OFDMA backscatter is to be revealed, and the preliminary result for the future work is also to be presented.","PeriodicalId":403596,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation & Characterization","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128076265","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":"Dead on Arrival: An Empirical Study of The Bluetooth 5.1 Positioning System","authors":"Marco Cominelli, P. Patras, F. Gringoli","doi":"10.1145/3349623.3355475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3349623.3355475","url":null,"abstract":"The recently released Bluetooth 5.1 specification introduces fine-grained positioning capabilities in this wireless technology, which is deemed essential to context-/location-based Internet of Things (IoT) applications. In this paper, we evaluate experimentally, for the first time, the accuracy of a positioning system based on the Angle of Arrival (AoA) mechanism adopted by the Bluetooth standard. We first scrutinize the fidelity of angular detection and then assess the feasibility of using angle information from multiple fixed receivers to determine the position of a device. Our results reveal that angular detection is limited to a restricted range. On the other hand, even in a simple deployment with only two antennas per receiver, the AoA-based positioning technique can achieve sub-meter accuracy; yet attaining localization within a few centimeters remains a difficult endeavor. We then demonstrate that a malicious device may be able to easily alter the truthfulness of the measured AoA, by tampering with the packet structure. To counter this protocol weakness, we propose simple remedies that are missing in the standard, but which can be adopted with little effort by manufacturers, to secure the Bluetooth 5.1 positioning system.","PeriodicalId":403596,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation & Characterization","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132324315","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}