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Paper Digest: MOBICOM 2017 Highlights

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International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) is one of the top conferences on mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking.

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TABLE 1: MOBICOM 2017 Papers

Title Authors Highlight
1 Making Roads Safer by Making Drivers Better Hari Balakrishnan This talk will describe how mobile sensing (especially using smartphones), signal processing, machine learning, and behavioral science can improve road safety by making people better drivers.
2 WEBee: Physical-Layer Cross-Technology Communication via Emulation Zhijun Li, Tian He We designed and implemented WEBee with commodity devices (Atheros AR2425 WiFi card and MicaZ CC2420) and the USRP-N210 platform (for PHY layer evaluation).
3 Stateful Inter-Packet Signal Processing for Wireless Networking Shangqing Zhao, Zhengping Luo, Zhuo Lu, Xiang Lu, Yao Liu In this paper, we enhance the performance of this process in the wireless network domain.
4 WiFi-Assisted 60 GHz Wireless Networks Sanjib Sur, Ioannis Pefkianakis, Xinyu Zhang, Kyu-Han Kim In this paper, we design and implement MUST, an IEEE 802.11-compliant system that provides seamless, high-speed connectivity over multi-band 60 GHz and WiFi devices.
5 Pose Information Assisted 60 GHz Networks: Towards Seamless Coverage and Mobility Support Teng Wei, Xinyu Zhang In this paper, we propose Pia, a robust 60 GHz network architecture that can provide seamless coverage and mobility support at multi-Gbps bitrate.
6 A Control-Plane Perspective on Reducing Data Access Latency in LTE Networks Yuanjie Li, Zengwen Yuan, Chunyi Peng We show both are more than necessary under popular use cases.
7 Experience: An Open Platform for Experimentation with Commercial Mobile Broadband Networks Özgü Alay, Andra Lutu, Miguel Peón-Quirós, Vincenzo Mancuso, Thomas Hirsch, Kristian Evensen, Audun Hansen, Stefan Alfredsson, Jonas Karlsson, Anna Brunstrom, Ali Safari Khatouni, Marco Mellia, Marco Ajmone Marsan We report on our experience designing, implementing and testing the solution we propose for the platform.
8 Automating Diagnosis of Cellular Radio Access Network Problems Anand Padmanabha Iyer, Li Erran Li, Ion Stoica In this paper, we describe our experience in understanding the challenges in automating the diagnosis of RAN performance problems.
9 Adding the Next Nine: An Investigation of Mobile Broadband Networks Availability Ahmed Elmokashfi, Dong Zhou, Džiugas Baltrünas We conduct a large-scale measurement study of network availability in four networks in Norway.
10 The Tick Programmable Low-Latency SDR System Haoyang Wu, Tao Wang, Zengwen Yuan, Chunyi Peng, Zhiwei Li, Zhaowei Tan, Boyan Ding, Xiaoguang Li, Yuanjie Li, Jun Liu, Songwu Lu We have implemented Tick and validated its effectiveness through extensive evaluations as well as two prototypes of 802.11ac SISO/MIMO and 802.11a/g full-duplex.
11 BiPass: Enabling End-to-End Full Duplex Lu Chen, Fei Wu, Jiaqi Xu, Kannan Srinivasan, Ness Shroff In this paper, we present BiPass to break this limitation.With the help of full duplex capable relays, weenable simultaneous bidirectional in-band cut-through transmissions between two far apart nodes, so they can do full duplex communications as if they were within each other’s transmission range.To design such a system, we analyze interference patterns and propose a loop-back interference cancellation strategy.
12 Orion: RAN Slicing for a Flexible and Cost-Effective Multi-Service Mobile Network Architecture Xenofon Foukas, Mahesh K. Marina, Kimon Kontovasilis In this paper, we present Orion, a novel RAN slicing system that enables the dynamic on-the-fly virtualization of base stations, the flexible customization of slices to meet their respective service needs and which can be used in an end-to-end network slicing setting.
13 Accelerating Multipath Transport Through Balanced Subflow Completion Yihua Ethan Guo, Ashkan Nikravesh, Z. Morley Mao, Feng Qian, Subhabrata Sen In this paper, we propose DEMS, a new multipath scheduler aiming at reducing the data chunk download time.
14 FSONet: A Wireless Backhaul for Multi-Gigabit Picocells Using Steerable Free Space Optics Max Curran, Md. Shaifur Rahman, Himanshu Gupta, Kai Zheng, Jon Longtin, Samir R. Das, Thanvir Mohamed In particular, we present a novel network architecture based on steerable links and sufficiently many robust short-range links, to help circumvent the key challenge of outdoor effects in reliable operation of outdoor FSO links.
15 MagneComm: Magnetometer-based Near-Field Communication Hao Pan, Yi-Chao Chen, Guangtao Xue, Xiaoyu Ji In this work, we seek to propose a novel near-field communication protocol, MagneComm, which utilizes Magnetic Induction (MI) signals emitted from CPUs and captured by magnetometers on mobile devices for communication.
16 PassiveVLC: Enabling Practical Visible Light Backscatter Communication for Battery-free IoT Applications Xieyang Xu, Yang Shen, Junrui Yang, Chenren Xu, Guobin Shen, Guojun Chen, Yunzhe Ni This paper investigates the feasibility of practical backscatter communication using visible light for battery-free IoT applications.
17 ReflexCode: Coding with Superposed Reflection Light for LED-Camera Communication Yanbing Yang, Jiangtian Nie, Jun Luo In order to further improve the performance, we revisit the reflected light approach and we innovate in converting the potentially destructive interferences into collaborative transmissions.
18 Navigating the Chasm between Curiosity- and Impact-Driven Research Shyam Gollakota In my talk, I will focus on my efforts so far navigating this chasm between curiosity and impact driven research.
19 Pulsar: Towards Ubiquitous Visible Light Localization Chi Zhang, Xinyu Zhang In this paper, we propose Pulsar, which uses a compact photodiode sensor, readily fit into a mobile device, to discriminate existing ceiling lights—either fluorescent lights or conventional LEDs—based on their intrinsic optical emission features.
20 RF-Echo: A Non-Line-of-Sight Indoor Localization System Using a Low-Power Active RF Reflector ASIC Tag Li-Xuan Chuo, Zhihong Luo, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, Hun-Seok Kim We present RF-Echo, a new low-power RF localization solution that achieves decimeter accuracy in long range indoor non-line-of-sight (NLOS) scenarios.
21 Simultaneous Power-Based Localization of Transmitters for Crowdsourced Spectrum Monitoring Mojgan Khaledi, Mehrdad Khaledi, Shamik Sarkar, Sneha Kasera, Neal Patwari, Kurt Derr, Samuel Ramirez In this paper, we propose a novel approach to locate spectrum offenders using crowdsourcing.
22 Minding the Billions: Ultra-wideband Localization for Deployed RFID Tags Yunfei Ma, Nicholas Selby, Fadel Adib This paper presents RFind, a new technology that brings the benefits of ultra-wideband localization to the billions of RFIDs in today’s world.
23 RIO: A Pervasive RFID-based Touch Gesture Interface Swadhin Pradhan, Eugene Chai, Karthikeyan Sundaresan, Lili Qiu, Mohammad A. Khojastepour, Sampath Rangarajan In this paper, we design and develop RIO, a novel battery-free touch sensing user interface (UI) primitive for future IoT and smart spaces.
24 FlipTracer: Practical Parallel Decoding for Backscatter Communication Meng Jin, Yuan He, Xin Meng, Yilun Zheng, Dingyi Fang, Xiaojiang Chen Motivated by this observation, we propose a graphical model, called one-flip-graph (OFG), to capture the transition pattern of collided signals, and design a reliable approach to construct the OFG in a manner robust to the diversity in backscatter systems.
25 TagScan: Simultaneous Target Imaging and Material Identification with Commodity RFID Devices Ju Wang, Jie Xiong, Xiaojiang Chen, Hongbo Jiang, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Dingyi Fang We propose solutions to all the challenges and evaluate the system’s performance in three different environments.
26 Analog On-Tag Hashing: Towards Selective Reading as Hash Primitives in Gen2 RFID Systems Lei Yang, Qiongzheng Lin, Chunhui Duan, Zhenlin An In particular, we design three types of hash primitives, namely, tash function, tash table function and tash operator.
27 Cardiac Scan: A Non-contact and Continuous Heart-based User Authentication System Feng Lin, Chen Song, Yan Zhuang, Wenyao Xu, Changzhi Li, Kui Ren The goal of this work is to investigate a trustworthy, continuous, and non-contact user authentication approach based on a heart-related biometric that works in a daily-life environment.
28 Automating Visual Privacy Protection Using a Smart LED Shilin Zhu, Chi Zhang, Xinyu Zhang In this paper, we introduce LiShield, which automatically protects a physical scene against photographing, by illuminating it with smart LEDs flickering in specialized waveforms.
29 Continuous Authentication for Voice Assistants Huan Feng, Kassem Fawaz, Kang G. Shin To defend against these threats, we present VAuth, the first system that provides continuous authentication for voice assistants.
30 NICScatter: Backscatter as a Covert Channel in Mobile Devices Zhice Yang, Qianyi Huang, Qian Zhang This paper discusses a covert channel threat on existing mobile systems.
31 Spurring Mobile Systems Research Into The Next Decade Thyaga Nandagopal This talk will cover the future of wireless systems-driven research and contributions to science & technology from the vantage point of the National Science Foundation.
32 UIWear: Easily Adapting User Interfaces for Wearable Devices Jian Xu, Qingqing Cao, Aditya Prakash, Aruna Balasubramanian, Donald E. Porter This paper argues for a different programming model for wearable devices.
33 TinyLink: A Holistic System for Rapid Development of IoT Applications Gaoyang Guan, Wei Dong, Yi Gao, Kaibo Fu, Zhihao Cheng In this paper, we present TinyLink, a holistic system for rapid development of IoT applications.
34 BlueMountain: An Architecture for Customized Data Management on Mobile Systems Sharath Chandrashekhara, Taeyeon Ki, Kyungho Jeon, Karthik Dantu, Steven Y. Ko In this paper, we design a pluggable data management solution for modern mobile platforms (e.g., Android).
35 Furion: Engineering High-Quality Immersive Virtual Reality on Today’s Mobile Devices Zeqi Lai, Y. Charlie Hu, Yong Cui, Linhui Sun, Ningwei Dai In this paper, we perform a systematic design study of the "elephant in the room" facing the VR industry — is it feasible to enable high-quality VR apps on untethered mobile devices such as smartphones?
36 RAVEN: Perception-aware Optimization of Power Consumption for Mobile Games Chanyou Hwang, Saumay Pushp, Changyoung Koh, Jungpil Yoon, Yunxin Liu, Seungpyo Choi, Junehwa Song This paper presents the design and implementation of RAVEN, a novel, on-the-fly frame rate scaling system for mobile gaming applications.
37 Advertising-based Measurement: A Platform of 7 Billion Mobile Devices Mark D. Corner, Brian N. Levine, Omar Ismail, Angela Upreti We present a method of addressing these challenges by leveraging the most open and globally accessible test and measurement platform: digital advertising.
38 NutShell: Scalable Whittled Proxy Execution for Low-Latency Web over Cellular Networks Ashiwan Sivakumar, Chuan Jiang, Yun Seong Nam, Shankaranarayanan Puzhavakath Narayanan, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Sanjay G. Rao, Subhabrata Sen, Mithuna Thottethodi, T. N. Vijaykumar In this paper, we propose to scale the proxies, focusing on a design where the proxy’s execution is solely to push the needed objects and the client completely executes the page as normal.
39 Demo: The Sound of Silence: End-to-End Sign Language Recognition Using SmartWatch Qian Dai, Jiahui Hou, Panlong Yang, Xiangyang Li, Fei Wang, Xumiao Zhang In this demo, we propose the first SmartWatch-based American sign language (ASL) recognition system, which is more comfortable, portable and user-friendly and offers accessibility anytime, anywhere.
40 Demo: FlexRAN: A Software-Defined RAN Platform Xenofon Foukas, Navid Nikaein, Mohamed M. Kassem, Mahesh K. Marina, Kimon Kontovasilis In this work we demonstrate the capabilities of FlexRAN, an open-source SD-RAN platform developed to fill this void.
41 Demo: Orion: A Radio Access Network Slicing System Xenofon Foukas, Mahesh K. Marina, Kimon Kontovasilis In this work, we highlight the capabilities of Orion, a novel RAN slicing architecture that enables the dynamic virtualization of base stations and flexible customization of slices to meet their respective service needs.
42 Demo: Sensor Fusion Localization and Navigation for Visually Impaired People Giovanni Galioto, Ilenia Tinnirello, Daniele Croce, Federica Inderst, Federica Pascucci, Laura Giarré We present an innovative smartphone-centric tracking system for indoor and outdoor environments, based on the joint utilization of dead-reckoning and computer vision (CV) techniques.
43 Demo: A Cell-level Traffic Generator for LoRa Networks Michele Gucciardo, Ilenia Tinnirello, Domenico Garlisi In this demo we present and validate a LoRa cell traffic generator, able to emulate the behavior of thousands of low-rate sensor nodes deployed in the same cell, by using a single Software Defined Radio (SDR) platform.
44 Demo: DEMS: DEcoupled Multipath Scheduler for Accelerating Multipath Transport Yihua Ethan Guo, Ashkan Nikravesh, Z. Morley Mao, Feng Qian, Subhabrata Sen We present the demonstration of DEMS, a new multipath scheduler aiming at reducing the data chunk download time.
45 Demo: Atlas Thing Architecture: Enabling Mobile Apps as Things in the IoT Sumi Helal, Ahmed E. Khaled, Venkata Gutta We present the World Cup demo scenario which involves media appliances and mobile app things, and which shows how we implemented it as an IoT application based on our architecture.
46 Demo: LL-MEC A SDN-based MEC Platform Anta Huang, Navid Nikaein In this work, we present a low-latency MEC platform (LL-MEC) providing the required flexibility and programmability to meet the expected performance gain following SDN and MEC principles.
47 Demo: BlueBee: 10,000x Faster Cross-Technology Communication from Bluetooth to ZigBee Wenchao Jiang, Ruofeng Liu, Ling Liu, Zhijun Li, Tian He Our approach, called BlueBee, aims at achieving much higher CTC throughput thus extends CTC applications.
48 Demo: Position Tracking for Virtual Reality Using Commodity WiFi Manikanta Kotaru, Alexander Anemogiannis, Samuel Joseph, Sachin Katti This paper demonstrates WiCapture, a novel approach which leverages commodity WiFi infrastructure, which is ubiquitous today, for tracking purposes.
49 Demo: Ultra-Low Power Gaze Tracking for Virtual Reality Tianxing Li, Emmanuel S. Akosah, Qiang Liu, Xia Zhou Demo: Ultra-Low Power Gaze Tracking for Virtual Reality
50 Demo: WEBee: Physical-Layer Cross-Technology Communication via Emulation Zhijun Li, Zhimeng Yin, Ling Liu, Ruofeng Liu, Tian He To evaluate the performance, we implemented WEBee on commodity devices (the Atheros AR2425 WiFi card, BCM 4330 WiFi card and CC2420, CC2530 ZigBee devices).
51 Demo: Towards Flexible and Scalable Indoor Navigation Zhuqi Li, Yuanchao Shu, Börje F. Karlsson, Yiyong Lin, Thomas Moscibroda We present FollowUs, an easily-deployable (bootstrap-free) and scalable indoor navigation system.
52 Demo: FROG: Optimizing Power Consumption of Mobile Games Using Perception-Aware Frame Rate Scaling Saumay Pushp, Chanyou Hwang, Changyoung Koh, Jungpil Yoon, Yunxin Liu, Seungpyo Choi, Junehwa Song In this demo, we present FROG, a novel frame rate optimization system for mobile gaming applications.
53 Demo: ArgosV3: An Efficient Many-Antenna Platform Clayton W. Shepard, Rahman Doost-Mohammady, Ryan E. Guerra, Lin Zhong We present the third generation of Argos platforms, ArgosV3, intended for real-world applications and research.
54 Demo: WiFi-Assisted 60 GHz Wireless Networks Sanjib Sur, Ioannis Pefkianakis, Xinyu Zhang, Kyu-Han Kim In this demonstration, we will present MUST, an 802.11-compliant real-time system that provides seamless, high-speed connectivity over multi-band 60 GHz and WiFi devices.
55 Demo: Dynamic Adaptations of WiFi Channel Widths Without TX/RX Coordination Alice Lo Valvo, Ilenia Tinnirello, Fabrizio Giuliano, Giuseppe Santaromita To this purpose, we propose an innovative and efficient receiver design, which allows the transmitter to take decisions about the channel width without explicitly informing the receiver.
56 Demo: UIWear: Easily Adapting User Interfaces for Wearable Devices Jian Xu, Qingqing Cao, Aruna Balasubramanian, Donald E. Porter In this demo, we show a working prototype of our system UIWear that allows a developer to easily extend a smartphone application to other wearable interfaces.
57 Demo: Coding with Superposed Reflection Light for LED-Camera Communication Yanbing Yang, Jiangtian Nie, Jun Luo In this demo, we revisit the reflected light approach and propose a novel modulation mechanism, ReflexCode, which converts the potentially destructive interferences into collaborative transmissions.
58 Demo: Stuffing Wi-Fi Beacons for Fun and Profit Sven Zehl, Anatolij Zubow, Adam Wolisz In this paper we introduce a demonstrator for Location-based Wi-Fi Services (LoWS) based on beacon stuffing.
59 Demo: Acoustic Sensing Based Indoor Floor Plan Construction Using Smartphones Bing Zhou, Mohammed Elbadry, Ruipeng Gao, Fan Ye We develop robust probabilistic echo-object association and outlier removal algorithms to identify the correspondence between distances and objects, thus the geometry of corridors.
60 Demo: LiShield: Privacy Protection of Physical Environment Against Photographing Shilin Zhu, Chi Zhang, Xinyu Zhang In this demo, we introduce LiShield, which automatically protects a physical scene against photographing, by illuminating it with smart LEDs flickering in a specialized waveform.
61 Poster: Resource Allocation with Conflict Resolution for Vehicular Sidelink Broadcast Communications Luis F. Abanto-Leon, Arie Koppelaar, Sonia Heemstra de Groot In this paper we present a graph-based resource allocation scheme for sidelink broadcast V2V communications.
62 Poster: Link Line Crossing Speed Estimation with Narrowband Signal Strength Alemayehu Solomon Abrar, Anh Luong, Peter Hillyard, Neal Patwari We present results from a system which uses received signal strength (RSS) measurements to estimate the speed at which a person is walking when they cross the link line.
63 Poster: Broadcast LTE Data Reveals Application Type Arjun Balasingam, Manu Bansal, Rakesh Misra, Rahul Tandra, Aaron Schulman, Sachin Katti In this work, we show that broad classes of popular mobile applications have distinct radio resource allocation signatures.
64 Poster: Toward a Better Monitoring of Air Pollution using Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks Ahmed Boubrima, Walid Bechkit, Hervé Rivano, Lionel Soulhac In this ongoing work, we tackle the placement problem of pollution sensors and design a mixed integer programming model allowing to maximize the assimilation quality while ensuring the connectivity of the network.
65 Poster: DeepTFP: Mobile Time Series Data Analytics based Traffic Flow Prediction Yuanfang Chen, Falin Chen, Yizhi Ren, Ting Wu, Ye Yao This study proposes a deep learning based prediction algorithm, DeepTFP, to collectively predict the traffic flow on each and every traffic road of a city.
66 Poster: A New Scalable, Programmable and Evolvable Mobile Control Plane Platform Junguk Cho, Jacobus Van der Merwe We propose a new scalable, programmable and evolvable mobile control plane platform running on realtime stream frameworks for future mobile networks.
67 Poster: Conservative Modulation and Coding for Low-latency Robust Transmission of Scalable ECG over LTE MTC Yongwoo Cho, Hyo-Joong Suh, Kyungtae Kang This study introduces a novel conservative modulation and coding scheme to minimize and stabilize the delay incurred during the process of electrocardiogram (ECG) transmission over a wireless medium, while maintaining the desired level of the ECG pattern quality required for improving the chance of its interpretation.
68 Poster: DRIZY: Collaborative Driver Assistance Over Wireless Networks Nakul Garg, Ishani Janveja, Divyansh Malhotra, Chetan Chawla, Pulkit Gupta, Harshil Bansal, Aakanksha Chowdhery, Prerana Mukherjee, Brejesh Lall In this paper, we investigate a collaborative driver assistance system "DRIZY: DRIve eaSY" for such scenarios where inference is drawn from on-board camera feed to alert drivers of obstacles ahead and the cloud uses GPS sensor data uploaded by all vehicles to alert drivers of vehicles in potential collision trajectory.
69 Poster: Emotion-Aware Smart Tips for Healthy and Happy Sleep Yanxiang Guo, Xiaoyi Yang, Jiao Zhang, Chunbin Zhong, Yilong Li, Xiping Hu, Bin Hu, Jun Cheng, Zhaolong Ning We propose the Emotion-Aware Smart Tips (EAST), a novel approach that could help to inform users about their irregular emotional states with smart tips to improve their sleep qualities.
70 Poster: IoTURVA: Securing Device-to-Device Communications for IoT Ibbad Hafeez, Aaron Yi Ding, Markku Antikainen, Sasu Tarkoma In this poster we present IoTurva, a platform for securing Device-to-Device (D2D) communication in IoT.
71 Poster: A Portfolio Theory Approach to Edge Traffic Engineering via Bayesian Networks Mary Hogan, Flavio Esposito In this paper, we model the path selection problem for edge traffic engineering using a risk minimization technique inspired by portfolio theory in economics, and we use machine learning to estimate the risk of a path.
72 Poster: Interacting Data-Intensive Services Mining and Placement in Mobile Edge Clouds Yuze Huang, Jiwei Huang, Bo Cheng, Tianxiang Yao, Junliang Chen To attack this challenge, this paper proposes an approach for mining interacting services and placing the services on the cloudlets by optimizing the communication overhead.
73 Poster: Connecting Simulation and Real World: IEEE 802.11p in the Loop Florian Klingler, Gurjashan Singh Pannu, Christoph Sommer, Falko Dressler We present LAN Radio, an Open Source prototyping system to couple simulation and real world for the wireless channel of IEEE 802.11p based communication.
74 Poster: FooDNet: Optimized On Demand Take-out Food Delivery using Spatial Crowdsourcing Yan Liu, Bin Guo, He Du, Zhiwen Yu, Daqing Zhang, Chao Chen The two-stage method is proposed to solve the problem, consisting of the construction algorithm and the Large Neighborhood Search (LNS) algorithm.
75 Poster: RQL: REST Query Language for Converting Firebase to a Mobile Cloud Computing Platform Saqib Rasool, Afshan Saleem, Adnan Noor Mian We have contributed in two folds by 1) identifying the limitations of firebase as an MCC platform and by 2) proposing RQL (REST Query Language) as a wrapper over firebase to improve its services for achieving computational offloading.
76 Poster: EasyDefense: Towards Easy and Effective Protection Against Malware for Smartphones Bingfei Ren, Chuanchang Liu, Bo Cheng, Yimeng Feng, Junliang Chen In this paper, we design and implement EasyDefense, a lightweight defense system that is integrated with Android OS for easy and effective detection of Android malware utilizing machine learning methods and the ensemble of them.
77 Poster: Can MPTCP Improve Performance for Dual-Band 60 GHz/5 GHz Clients? Swetank Kumar Saha, Roshan Shyamsunder, Naveen Muralidhar Prakash, Hany Assasa, Adrian Loch, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Joerg Widmer This work conducts one of the first experimental studies of Multipath TCP (MPTCP) in dual-band 60 GHz/5 GHz WLANs using off-the-shelf hardware.
78 Poster: X60: A Programmable Testbed for Wideband 60 GHz WLANs with Phased Arrays Swetank Kumar Saha, Yasaman Ghasempour, Muhammad Kumail Haider, Tariq Siddiqui, Paulo De Melo, Neerad Somanchi, Luke Zakrajsek, Arjun Singh, Owen Torres, Daniel Uvaydov, Josep Miquel Jornet, Edward Knightly, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Dimitris Pados, Zhi Sun We introduce X60, the first SDR-based testbed for 60 GHz WLANs, featuring fully programmable MAC/PHY/Network layers, multi-Gbps rates, and a user-configurable 12-element phased antenna array.
79 Poster: A VLC Solution for Smart Parking Yang Shen, Guojun Chen, Xieyang Xu, Chenren Xu, Guobin Shen, Jiaji Li Herein, we present LightPark, a Visible Light Communication (VLC) solution to realize the vision of "smart parking".
80 Poster: Battery-free Visible Light Sensing Andreas Soleiman, Ambuj Varshney, Thiemo Voigt We present our efforts to design the first Visible Light Sensing (VLS) system that consumes only tens of μ Ws of power to sense and communicate.
81 Poster: Improving Multipath Resolution with MIMO Smoothing Elahe Soltanaghaei, Avinash Kalyanaraman, Kamin Whitehouse In this paper, we introduce MIMO smoothing as a new technique to bring decorrelation effect by leveraging the spacial and frequential diversity in MIMO transmitters and receivers.
82 Poster: Combating Multipaths to Enable RFID Sensing in Practical Environments Ge Wang, Chen Qian, Jinsong Han, Haofan Cai This paper presents the first work to extract "clean" phase measurement of RFID tags in multipath-prevalent environments.
83 Poster: EasyApp: A Widget-based Cross-platform Mobile Development Environment for End-users Zhaoning Wang, Bo Cheng, Ying Jin, Yimeng Feng, Junliang Chen In this paper, we present a cross-platform mobile development environment, EasyApp.
84 Poster: RECO: A Reconfigurable Core Network for Future 5G Communication Systems Chia-Han Wu, Wei-Jen Chen, Jyh-Cheng Chen In this paper, we propose a reconfigurable core network called RECO that demonstrates how to implement customized virtual core network entities efficiently to suit for users with different characteristics.
85 Poster: Smart RF Table Enables IoT on a Desk Yue Wu, Caihua Li, Jieqi Shi IoT has long been a hot topic, and many researchers have made great efforts especially in wireless charging and communication between smart furniture, recognization and localization.
86 Poster: Enabling Secure Location Authentication in Drone Feng Xiao, Man Zhou, Youcheng Liye, Jingxiao Yang, Qian Wang Motivated by the ubiquitous WiFi signals around us, we propose WiDrone, a WiFi fingerprint location cross-check based anti-hijacking system on commodity drones in this poster.
87 Poster: An Efficient Control Framework for Supporting the Future SDN/NFV-enabled Satellite Network Zhenning Zhang, Baokang Zhao, Wanrong Yu, Chunqing Wu The key contribution in this work is the study of an efficient control framework, which logically consists of two parts: entity part and overlay part.
88 Poster: WiFi-based Device-Free Human Activity Recognition via Automatic Representation Learning Han Zou, Yuxun Zhou, Jianfei Yang, Weixi Gu, Lihua Xie, Costas Spanos In this paper, we propose SmartSense, a device-free human activity recognition system based on a novel machine learning algorithm with existing commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) WiFi routers.