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Fast Beam Tracking for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Mobile mmWave Networks
Xiaowen Tian, Zhi Sun
Millimeter wave (mmWave) communications are vulnerable to blockages and node mobility due to the highly directional signal beams. The emerging Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (…
Who is in Control? Practical Physical Layer Attack and Defense for mmWave based Sensing in Autonomous Vehicles
Zhi Sun, Sarankumar Balakrishnan, Lu Su +3
With the wide bandwidths in millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency band that results in unprecedented accuracy, mmWave sensing has become vital for many applications, especially in aut…
Injecting Reliable Radio Frequency Fingerprints Using Metasurface for The Internet of Things
Sekhar Rajendran, Zhi Sun, Feng Lin +1
In Internet of Things, where billions of devices with limited resources are communicating with each other, security has become a major stumbling block affecting the progress of thi…
Underwater Cooperative MIMO Communications using Hybrid Acoustic and Magnetic Induction Technique
Zhangyu Li, Soham Desai, Vaishnendr D Sudev +3
Future smart ocean applications require long distance and reliable communications to connect underwater sensors/robots with remote surface base stations. It is challenging to achie…
On Reliability of Underwater Magnetic Induction Communications with Tri-Axis Coils
Hongzhi Guo, Zhi Sun, Pu Wang
Underwater magnetic induction communications (UWMICs) provide a low-power and high-throughput solution for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), which are envisioned to explore an…
Inter-Media Backscatter Communications with Magnetic Induction
Hongzhi Guo, Zhi Sun
Wireless sensors in extreme environments such as underground, concrete wall, and the human body, can enable a large number of important applications. However, deploying wireless se…
Physical Layer Identification based on Spatial-temporal Beam Features for Millimeter Wave Wireless Networks
Sarankumar Balakrishnan, Shreya Gupta, Arupjyoti Bhuyan +3
With millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless communication envisioned to be the key enabler of next generation high data rate wireless networks, security is of paramount importance. Whil…
Deep CSI Learning for Gait Biometric Sensing and Recognition
Kalvik Jakkala, Arupjyoti Bhuya, Zhi Sun +2
Gait is a person's natural walking style and a complex biological process that is unique to each person. Recently, the channel state information (CSI) of WiFi devices have been exp…
FID: Function Modeling-based Data-Independent and Channel-Robust Physical-Layer Identification
Tianhang Zheng, Zhi Sun, Kui Ren
Trusted identification is critical to secure IoT devices. However, the limited memory and computation power of low-end IoT devices prevent the direct usage of conventional identifi…
Cooperative Raman Spectroscopy for Real-time In Vivo Nano-biosensing
Hongzhi Guo, Josep Miquel Jornet, Qiaoqiang Gan +1
In the last few decades, the development of miniature biological sensors that can detect and measure different phenomena at the nanoscale has led to transformative disease diagnosi…
Practical Design and Implementation of Metamaterial-Enhanced Magnetic Induction Communication
Hongzhi Guo, Zhi Sun, Chi Zhou
Although wireless communications in complex environments, such as underground, underwater, and indoor, can enable a large number of novel applications, their performances are const…
User Capacity of Wireless Physical-layer Identification: An Information-theoretic Perspective
Wenhao Wang, Zhi Sun, Kui Ren +1
Wireless Physical Layer Identification (WPLI) system aims at identifying or classifying authorized devices based on the unique Radio Frequency Fingerprints (RFFs) extracted from th…
Increasing Indoor Spectrum Sharing Capacity using Smart Reflect-Array
Xin Tan, Zhi Sun, Josep M. Jornet +1
The radio frequency (RF) spectrum becomes overly crowded in some indoor environments due to the high density of users and bandwidth demands. To accommodate the tremendous wireless…
MI Communication: From Theoretical Modeling to Practical Design
Hongzhi Guo, Zhi Sun
Wireless communications in complex environments are constrained by lossy media and complicated structures. Magnetic Induction (MI) has been proved to be an efficient solution to ex…
Wireless Physical-Layer Identification: Modeling and Validation
Wenhao Wang, Zhi Sun, Kui Ren +2
The wireless physical-layer identification (WPLI) techniques utilize the unique features of the physical waveforms of wireless signals to identify and classify authorized devices.…
A Testbed of Magnetic Induction-based Communication System for Underground Applications
Xin Tan, Zhi Sun, Ian F. Akyildiz
Wireless underground sensor networks (WUSNs) can enable many important applications such as intelligent agriculture, pipeline fault diagnosis, mine disaster rescue, concealed borde…
MI: Channel Modeling for Metamaterial-Enhanced Magnetic Induction Communications
Hongzhi Guo, Zhi Sun, Jingbo Sun +1
Magnetic Induction (MI) communication technique has shown great potentials in complex and RF-challenging environments, such as underground and underwater, due to its advantage over…