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Paper Digest: MOBICOM 2016 Highlights

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TABLE 1: MOBICOM 2016 Papers

Title Authors Highlight
1 Where the curb meets the cloud: urban innovation in the digital age Craig Nevill-Manning As the digital revolution transforms cities once again, how can we make sure it improves quality of life while minimizing the downside?
2 The darkLight rises: visible light communication in the dark Zhao Tian, Kevin Wright, Xia Zhou We tackle challenges in circuit designs, data encoding/decoding schemes, and DarkLight networking, to efficiently generate and reliably detect ultra-short light pulses using off-the-shelf, low-cost LEDs and photodiodes.
3 Making sense of mechanical vibration period with sub-millisecond accuracy using backscatter signals Lei Yang, Yao Li, Qiongzheng Lin, Xiang-Yang Li, Yunhao Liu In this work, we present an RFID-based solution, Tagbeat, to inspect mechanical vibration using COTS RFID tags and readers.
4 Messages behind the sound: real-time hidden acoustic signal capture with smartphones Qian Wang, Kui Ren, Man Zhou, Tao Lei, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Lu Su In this paper, we develop Dolphin, a novel form of real-time acoustics-based dual-channel communication, which uses a speaker and the microphones on off-the-shelf smartphones to achieve concurrent audible and hidden communication.
5 Near-ultrasound communication for TV’s 2nd screen services Soonwon Ka, Tae Hyun Kim, Jae Yeol Ha, Sun Hong Lim, Su Cheol Shin, Jun Won Choi, Chulyoung Kwak, Sunghyun Choi In this paper, we propose a near-ultrasound chirp signal-based communication for the TV’s 2nd screen services.
6 Gyro in the air: tracking 3D orientation of batteryless internet-of-things Teng Wei, Xinyu Zhang In this paper, we propose Tagyro, which attaches an array of passive RFID tags as orientation sensors on everyday objects.
7 CAT: high-precision acoustic motion tracking Wenguang Mao, Jian He, Lili Qiu To this end, we develop a novel system that uses audio signals to achieve mm-level tracking accuracy.
8 Device-free gesture tracking using acoustic signals Wei Wang, Alex X. Liu, Ke Sun In this paper, we propose LLAP, a device-free gesture tracking scheme that can be deployed on existing mobile devices as software, without any hardware modification.
9 Emotion recognition using wireless signals Mingmin Zhao, Fadel Adib, Dina Katabi We describe the design and implementation of EQ-Radio, and demonstrate through a user study that its emotion recognition accuracy is on par with state-of-the-art emotion recognition systems that require a person to be hooked to an ECG monitor.
10 QuickC: practical sub-millisecond transport for small cells Rakesh Misra, Aditya Gudipati, Sachin Katti We present QuickC, a wireless transport technology that can simplify small cell deployment.
11 Practical MU-MIMO user selection on 802.11ac commodity networks Sanjib Sur, Ioannis Pefkianakis, Xinyu Zhang, Kyu-Han Kim In this paper, we design and implement MUSE, a lightweight user grouping algorithm, which addresses the above challenges.
12 LTE in unlicensed spectrum: are we there yet? Eugene Chai, Karthik Sundaresan, Mohammad A. Khojastepour, Sampath Rangarajan In this work, we explore the potential and impact of unlicensed LTE on WiFi in unlicensed spectrum.
13 BASIC: backbone-assisted successive interference cancellation Wenjie Zhou, Tanmoy Das, Lu Chen, Kannan Srinivasan, Prasun Sinha A novel greedy algorithm is proposed for data rate selection.
14 OpenMili: a 60 GHz software radio platform with a reconfigurable phased-array antenna Jialiang Zhang, Xinyu Zhang, Pushkar Kulkarni, Parameswaran Ramanathan In this paper, we overcome the barrier with OpenMili, a reconfigurable 60 GHz radio architecture.
15 A case for faster mobile web in cellular IPv6 networks Utkarsh Goel, Moritz Steiner, Mike P. Wittie, Martin Flack, Stephen Ludin In this paper we answer these questions through a comprehensive comparison of IPv4 and IPv6 mobile Web performance in cellular networks in the US from the point of view of Akamai’s content delivery infrastructure.
16 An in-depth understanding of multipath TCP on mobile devices: measurement and system design Ashkan Nikravesh, Yihua Guo, Feng Qian, Z. Morley Mao, Subhabrata Sen In this paper, we conduct an in-depth study of multipath for mobile settings, focusing on MPTCP, with the goal of developing key insights for evolving the mobile multipath design.
17 Mobileinsight: extracting and analyzing cellular network information on smartphones Yuanjie Li, Chunyi Peng, Zengwen Yuan, Jiayao Li, Haotian Deng, Tao Wang We design and implement MobileInsight, a software tool that collects, analyzes and exploits runtime network information from operational cellular networks.
18 3D real-time indoor localization via broadband nonlinear backscatter in passive devices with centimeter precision Yunfei Ma, Xiaonan Hui, Edwin C. Kan We propose and demonstrate accurate 3D real-time indoor localization via broadband nonlinear backscatter in passive devices.
19 LiTell: robust indoor localization using unmodified light fixtures Chi Zhang, Xinyu Zhang In this paper, we propose LiTell, a simple and robust localization scheme that employs unmodified fluorescent lights (FLs) as location landmarks and commodity smartphones as light sensors.
20 LiFS: low human-effort, device-free localization with fine-grained subcarrier information Ju Wang, Hongbo Jiang, Jie Xiong, Kyle Jamieson, Xiaojiang Chen, Dingyi Fang, Binbin Xie This paper presents an accurate model-based device-free localization system LiFS, implemented on cheap commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Wi-Fi devices.
21 P Aisha Syed, Jacobus Van der Merwe We present Proteus, a mobile network service control platform to enable safe and rapid evolution of services in a mobile software defined infrastructure (SDI).
22 Experience: accurate simulation of dense scenarios with hundreds of vehicular transmitters Bin Cheng, Ali Rostami, Marco Gruteser This paper reports on our methodology and experience from a multi-year effort to cross-validate a vehicular network experiment with four hundred Dedicated Short Range Communications IEEE 802.11p transmitters through ns-3 simulations.
23 Tracking drone orientation with multiple GPS receivers Mahanth Gowda, Justin Manweiler, Ashutosh Dhekne, Romit Roy Choudhury, Justin D. Weisz We consider using multiple GPS receivers on the drone as a fail-safe mechanism for IMU failures.
24 DopEnc: acoustic-based encounter profiling using smartphones Huanle Zhang, Wan Du, Pengfei Zhou, Mo Li, Prasant Mohapatra This paper presents DopEnc, an acoustic-based encounter profiling system on smartphones.
25 RnB: rate and brightness adaptation for rate-distortion-energy tradeoff in HTTP adaptive streaming over mobile devices Zhisheng Yan, Chang Wen Chen To fill in this gap, this paper presents a fundamentally new design by jointly considering the end-to-end pipeline from the initial video encoding to the final mobile display.
26 LEO: scheduling sensor inference algorithms across heterogeneous mobile processors and network resources Petko Georgiev, Nicholas D. Lane, Kiran K. Rachuri, Cecilia Mascolo Mobile apps that use sensors to monitor user behavior often employ resource heavy inference algorithms that make computational offloading a common practice.
27 Lasagna: towards deep hierarchical understanding and searching over mobile sensing data Cihang Liu, Lan Zhang, Zongqian Liu, Kebin Liu, Xiangyang Li, Yunhao Liu In this work, we address the issue of deep understanding of arbitrary activities and semantic searching of any activity over massive mobile sensing data.
28 SPREE: a spoofing resistant GPS receiver Aanjhan Ranganathan, Hildur Ólafsdóttir, Srdjan Capkun In this work, we present SPREE, which is, to the best of our knowledge, the first GPS receiver capable of detecting all spoofing attacks described in the literature. Finally, we release our implementation and datasets to the community for further research and development.
29 Appstract: on-the-fly app content semantics with better privacy Earlence Fernandes, Oriana Riva, Suman Nath We propose a novel approach that efficiently extracts app content semantics on the device, without exfiltrating user data.
30 Investigation of multi-device location spoofing attacks on air traffic control and possible countermeasures Daniel Moser, Patrick Leu, Vincent Lenders, Aanjhan Ranganathan, Fabio Ricciato, Srdjan Capkun In this paper, we consider a more advanced model where the attacker is equipped with multiple devices and performs a geographically distributed coordinated attack on the multilateration system.
31 MASHaBLE: mobile applications of secret handshakes over bluetooth LE Yan Michalevsky, Suman Nath, Jie Liu We present new applications for cryptographic secret handshakes between mobile devices on top of Bluetooth Low-Energy (LE).
32 SALVE: server authentication with location verification Der-Yeuan Yu, Aanjhan Ranganathan, Ramya Jayaram Masti, Claudio Soriente, Srdjan Capkun In this paper, we propose using the server’s geographic location as a second factor of its authenticity.
33 Towards adversarial detection of mobile malware: poster Sen Chen, Minhui Xue, Lihua Xu This paper proposes KuafuDet, a two-phase learning enhancing approach that adversarially detects the Android malware.
34 Martian — message broadcast via LED lights to heterogeneous smartphones: poster Haohua Du, Junze Han, Qiuyuan Huang, Xuesi Jian, Cheng Bo, Yu Wang, Hongli Xu, Xiangyang Li Visible light communication (VLC) has been shown to have several advantages over traditional wireless communication.
35 Poster: A millimeter wave software defined radio platform with phased arrays Omid Abari, Haitham Hassanieh, Michael Rodreguiz, Dina Katabi Recently, there has been significant interest in performing research on millimeter wave (mmWave) communications.
36 Measuring and optimizing android smartwatch energy consumption: poster Xing Liu, Feng Qian In this paper, we describe our on-going work on measuring and optimizing Android smartwatch energy consumption.
37 Sensing on ubiquitous surfaces via vibration signals: poster Jian Liu, Yingying Chen, Marco Gruteser This work explores vibration-based sensing to determine the location of a touch on extended surface areas as well as identify the object touching the surface leveraging a single sensor.
38 PIN number-based authentication leveraging physical vibration: poster Jian Liu, Chen Wang, Yingying Chen In this work, we propose the first PIN number based authentication system, which can be deployed on ubiquitous surfaces, leveraging physical vibration signals.
39 Assessing header impacts in soccer with smartball: poster Theodore Stone, Nathaniel Stone, Xiang Guan, Srihari Nelakuditi, Nirupam Roy, Will Melton, Kayla Cole, Benjamin Jackson, Addis Kidane Assessing header impacts in soccer with smartball: poster
40 A mobility prediction system leveraging realtime location data streams: poster Vaibhav Kulkarni, Arielle Moro, Benoît Garbinato Existing location forecasting techniques are driven by large volumes of data to train the prediction models in a centralised server.
41 HTTP/2 performance in cellular networks: poster Utkarsh Goel, Moritz Steiner, Mike P. Wittie, Martin Flack, Stephen Ludin Previous studies have shown both improvement and degradation in PLT when using h2 with respect to h1 [6, 8].
42 Migrating running applications across mobile edge clouds: poster Andrew Machen, Shiqiang Wang, Kin K. Leung, Bong Jun Ko, Theodoros Salonidis In this paper, we propose a layered framework for migrating running applications that are encapsulated either in virtual machines (VMs) or containers.
43 Automatic personal fitness assistance through wearable mobile devices: poster Xiaonan Guo, Jian Liu, Yingying Chen Acknowledging the powerful sensors on wearable mobile devices enabling various applications to improve users’ life styles and qualities, this paper takes one step forward developing a automatic personal fitness assistance through wearable mobile devices to assess dynamic postures in workouts.
44 Low-cost wireless phase calibration that works on COTS RFID systems: poster Liqiong Chang, Xuan Wang, Ju Wang, Yuhui Ren, Xiaojiang Chen, Dingyi Fang This paper introduces a wireless phase calibration algorithm that can be applied on cheap commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) radio frequency identification (RFID) system and auto acquire an accurate radio frequency (RF) phase information without any offline training.
45 GonioSense: a wearable-based range of motion sensing and measurement system for body joints: poster Bozhao Qi, Suman Banerjee This paper introduces GonioSense — a wearable based system that can track and measure both active and passive joint motions.
46 VALI — an SDN-based management framework for public wireless LANs: poster Sivaprakash Senapathi, Xenofon Foukas, Mahesh K. Marina Motivated by this we propose VALI, an SDN management framework tailored to meet the needs of public WLAN settings.
47 An infrastructureless and self-deployable indoor navigation approach using semantic signatures: poster Taeyu Im, Pradipta De In this research, we use textual signs and their geographical relationships inside a building as semantic signatures to design an infrastructureless indoor navigation system without a site survey.
48 ToneSense: communication across technologies through power-channel: poster Xianjin Xia, Shining Li, Yu Zhang, Lin Li, Mingfei Wei, Wei Qin This paper presents ToneSense, a new paradigm for communication between devices using different wireless technologies.
49 Do open resources encourage entry into the millimeter wave cellular service market?: poster Fraida Fund, Shahram Shahsavari, Shivendra S. Panwar, Elza Erkip, Sundeep Rangan In this paper, both the technical and economic implications of resource sharing in millimeter wave networks are studied.
50 Enabling on-body transmissions with commodity devices: poster Mehrdad Hessar, Vikram Iyer, Shyamnath Gollakota In this poster, we show for the first time that commodity devices can be used to generate wireless data transmissions that are confined to the human body.
51 SEEM: simulation experimental environments for mobile applications in MANETs: poster Tongguang Zhang, Shuai Zhao, Bo Cheng, Junliang Chen Therefore, we propose a Simulation Experimental Environment for Android Applications in MANETs (SEEM).
52 Cell tower extension through drones: poster Ashutosh Dhekne, Mahanth Gowda, Romit Roy Choudhury Our idea is to use the knowledge of large structures in the area to compute the expected SNR space around the client’s current location.
53 EasyGuard: enhanced context-aware adaptive access control system for android platform: poster Bingfei Ren, Chuanchang Liu, Bo Cheng, Shuangxi Hong, Shuai Zhao, Junliang Chen To address these issues, we designed and implemented an enhanced context-aware adaptive access control system (EasyGuard) in Android to provide adaptive access control automatically when the specific context is detected according to the pre-configured policies.
54 Harnessing spectrum awareness to enhance mobile computing: poster S. Eman Mahmoodi, K. P. Subbalakshmi, R. N. Uma Our idea (joint cognitive offloading and scheduling) is to use dynamic spectrum access and management concepts from wireless networking to effect computation offloading and scheduling solutions that achieves near optimal trade-offs between the mobile device and wireless resources.
55 A transfer kernel learning based strategy for adaptive localization in dynamic indoor environments: poster Han Zou, Yuxun Zhou, Hao Jiang, Baoqi Huang, Lihua Xie, Costas Spanos To address this issue, we propose TKL-WinSMS as a systematic strategy, which is able to realize robust and adaptive localization in dynamic indoor environments.
56 MSN: a mobility-enhanced satellite network architecture: poster Zhenning Zhang, Baokang Zhao, Zhenqian Feng, Wanrong Yu, Chunqing Wu MSN: a mobility-enhanced satellite network architecture: poster
57 Cross-layer MAC/PHY protocol to support IoT traffic in 5G: poster Siddarth Mathur, Dola Saha, Dipankar Raychaudhuri In this paper, we propose a cross-layer MAC and Physical layer solution for low power, low bitrate devices that require low access delay and long range for communication.
58 CSI feedback reduction by checking its validity period: poster Yuanhang Cai, Wei Xi, Zhi Wang, Kun Zhao, Jinsong Han, Chen Qian, Han Ding, Jizhong Zhao In this paper, we propose a smart CSI feedback protocol called Gabriel.
59 Robust respiration monitoring using low-cost doppler sensor and wireless network: poster Yang Zhao This work proposes a novel respiration monitoring system using Doppler signal from a low-cost motion sensor and received signal strength (RSS) measurements from a wireless network. We present the ambiguity problem of the Doppler monitoring system.
60 Preserving incumbent users’ privacy in exclusion-zone-based spectrum access systems: poster Yanzhi Dou, Kexiong (Curtis) Zeng, Yaling Yang, Kui Ren To address the privacy issue, this paper presents an IU-privacy-preserving SAS (IP-SAS) design, which realizes the spectrum allocation process through secure computation over ciphertext based on homomorphic encryption.
61 Network analysis of the steam in-home streaming game system: poster G. Quadrio, A. Bujari, C. E. Palazzi, D. Ronzani, D. Maggiorini, L. A. Ripamonti This paper investigates one of the main game streaming services, the Steam In-Home Streaming, to analyze the generated network traffic.
62 Passive sensor tags: demo Carlos Pérez-Penichet, Frederik Hermans, Ambuj Varshney, Thiemo Voigt We introduce passive sensor tags that allow to easily and seamlessly add new sensors to existing IoT deployments without requiring hardware modifications or additional energy sources.
63 Towards customer trouble tickets resolution automation in large cellular services: demo Ruirui Li, Xinxin Huang, Shuo Song, Jia Wang, Wei Wang We present TREAT, which aims at automatically identifying opportunities for auto-resolving customer reported needs, and hence improving customer experiences and reducing cost for customer care and network operations.
64 LiTell: indoor localization using unmodified light fixtures: demo Chi Zhang, Xinyu Zhang We present LiTell, a simple and robust localization scheme that employs unmodified fluorescent lights (FLs) as location landmarks and commodity smartphones as light sensors.
65 Tracking orientation of batteryless internet-of-things using RFID tags: demo Teng Wei, Xinyu Zhang In this work, we introduce Tagyro, which attaches an array of passive RFID tags as orientation sensors on everyday objects.
66 OpenMili: a 60 GHz software radio with a programmable phased-array antenna: demo Jialiang Zhang, Xinyu Zhang, Pushkar Kulkarni, Parameswaran Ramanathan We propose to overcome the barrier with OpenMili, a reconfigurable 60 GHz radio architecture.
67 Making sense of mechanical vibration with COTS RFID systems: demo Lei Yang, Qiongzheng Lin, Yao Li In this demo, we present an RFID-based solution, called Tagbeat, to inspect mechanical vibration using COTS RFID tags and readers.
68 Repeatable mobile networking research with phantomNet: demo Junguk Cho, Jonathan Duerig, Eric Eide, Binh Nguyen, Robert Ricci, Aisha Syed, Jacobus Van der Merwe, Kirk Webb, Gary Wong We will demonstrate features and capabilities of the PhantomNet testbed.
69 High-precision acoustic motion tracking: demo Wenguang Mao, Jian He, Huihuang Zheng, Zaiwei Zhang, Lili Qiu We implement CAT on a mobile phone.
70 Real-time hidden acoustic signal capture with smartphones: demo Qian Wang, Kui Ren, Man Zhou, Tao Lei, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Lu Su In this demo, we present Dolphin, a novel form of real-time acoustics-based dual-channel communication, which uses a speaker and the microphones on off-the-shelf smartphones to achieve concurrent audible and hidden communication.
71 The darklight rises: visible light communication in the dark: demo Zhao Tian, Kevin Wright, Xia Zhou We tackle challenges in circuit designs, data encoding/decoding schemes, and DarkLight networking, to efficiently generate and reliably detect ultra-short light pulses using off-the-shelf, low-cost LEDs and photodiodes.
72 Device-free gesture tracking using acoustic signals: demo Wei Wang, Alex X. Liu, Ke Sun In this demo, we present LLAP, a hand tracking system that uses ultrasound to localize the hand of the user to enable device-free gesture inputs.
73 FMNC – rapid and accurate wifi characterization: demo Lixing Song, Aaron Striegel To meet this need, we developed Fast Mobile Network Characterization (FMNC).
74 A framework for collaborative sensing and processing of mobile data streams: demo Songchun Fan, Theodoros Salonidis, Benjamin Lee Traditional approaches address this problem by computation offloading.
75 In-device, runtime cellular network information extraction and analysis: demo Yuanjie Li, Haotian Deng, Yuanbo Xiangli, Zengwen Yuan, Chunyi Peng, Songwu Lu We present the demonstration of MobileInsight, a software tool that collects, analyzes and exploits runtime information from operational cellular network.
76 A Junguk Cho, Karthikeyan Sundaresan, Rajesh Mahindra, Jacobus Van der Merwe, Sampath Rangarajan We propose Acacia- a service abstraction framework that enables continuous interactive (CI) applications on edge clouds in mobile networks.
77 VibKeyboard: virtual keyboard leveraging physical vibration: demo Jian Liu, Yingying Chen, Marco Gruteser VibKeyboard: virtual keyboard leveraging physical vibration: demo
78 HearHere: smartphone based audio localization using time difference of arrival: demo Ellington Kirby, Seoyoon Park, Yan Wang, Yingying Chen This work demonstrates that such valuable resources in smartphones are readily available for developing consumer applications.
79 WiART – visualize and interact with wireless networks using augmented reality: demo Danh H. Nguyen, James Chacko, Logan Henderson, Anton Paatelma, Harri Saarnisaari, Nagarajan Kandasamy, Kapil R. Dandekar In this demonstration1 we present WiART, an augmented reality framework to help visualize and interact with wireless network activities in real time.
80 GENI wireless testbed: a flexible open ecosystem for wireless communications research: demo Abhimanyu Gosain, Ivan Seskar GENI wireless testbed: a flexible open ecosystem for wireless communications research: demo
81 JoyTag: a battery-less videogame controller exploiting RFID backscattering: demo Gaia Maselli, Mauro Piva, Giorgia Ramponi, Deepak Ganesan Specifically, we develop a system to gather data from a wireless and battery-less joystick, named JoyTag, while it interacts with a videogame console.