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23 papers
Spectral-Loc: Indoor Localization using Light Spectral Information
Yanxiang Wang, Jiawei Hu, Hong Jia +5
For indoor settings, we investigate the impact of location on the spectral distribution of the received light, i.e., the intensity of light for different wavelengths. Our investiga…
Path Planning for the Dynamic UAV-Aided Wireless Systems using Monte Carlo Tree Search
Yuwen Qian, Kexin Sheng, Chuan Ma +3
For UAV-aided wireless systems, online path planning attracts much attention recently. To better adapt to the real-time dynamic environment, we, for the first time, propose a Monte…
Analyzing the Impact of Molecular Re-Radiation on the MIMO Capacity in High-Frequency Bands
Sayed Amir Hoseini, Ming Ding, Mahbub Hassan +1
In this paper, we show how the absorption and re-radiation energy from molecules in the air can influence the Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) performance in high-frequency ba…
Deep Learning for Radio-based Human Sensing: Recent Advances and Future Directions
Isura Nirmal, Abdelwahed Khamis, Mahbub Hassan +2
While decade-long research has clearly demonstrated the vast potential of radio frequency (RF) for many human sensing tasks, scaling this technology to large scenarios remained pro…
Simultaneous Energy Harvesting and Gait Recognition using Piezoelectric Energy Harvester
Dong Ma, Guohao Lan, Weitao Xu +2
Piezoelectric energy harvester, which generates electricity from stress or vibrations, is gaining increasing attention as a viable solution to extend battery life in wearables. Rec…
Skin-MIMO: Vibration-based MIMO Communication over Human Skin
Dong Ma, Yuezhong Wu, Ming Ding +2
We explore the feasibility of Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication through vibrations over human skin. Using off-the-shelf motors and piezo transducers as vibration…
Enhancing Cellular Communications for UAVs via Intelligent Reflective Surface
Dong Ma, Ming Ding, Mahbub Hassan
Intelligent reflective surfaces (IRSs) capable of reconfiguring their electromagnetic absorption and reflection properties in real-time are offering unprecedented opportunities to…
H2B: Heartbeat-based Secret Key Generation Using Piezo Vibration Sensors
Qi Lin, Weitao Xu, Jun Liu +4
We present Heartbeats-2-Bits (H2B), which is a system for securely pairing wearable devices by generating a shared secret key from the skin vibrations caused by heartbeat. This wor…
Sampling Free TDOA Localization in Millimeter Wave Networks
Shree Prasad M., Trilochan Panigrahi, Mahbub Hassan +1
Time difference of arrival (TDOA) is a widely used technique for localizing a radio transmitter from the difference in signal arrival times at multiple receivers. For TDOA to work,…
SolarGest: Ubiquitous and Battery-free Gesture Recognition using Solar Cells
Dong Ma, Guohao Lan, Mahbub Hassan +4
We design a system, SolarGest, which can recognize hand gestures near a solar-powered device by analyzing the patterns of the photocurrent. SolarGest is based on the observation th…
Classifying the Order of Higher Derivative Gaussian Pulses in Terahertz Wireless Communications
Shree Prasad M, Trilochan Panigrahi, Mahbub Hassan
The terahertz band is considered the last frontier for wireless communications and expected to play a significant role in beyond 5G networks. Besides supporting extremely high data…
Survey on UAV Cellular Communications: Practical Aspects, Standardization Advancements, Regulation, and Security Challenges
Azade Fotouhi, Haoran Qiang, Ming Ding +4
The rapid growth of consumer Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is creating promising new business opportunities for cellular operators. On the one hand, UAVs can be connected to cell…
Direction of Arrival and Center Frequency Estimation for Impulse Radio Millimeter Wave Communications
Shree Prasad M., Trilochan Panigrahi, Mahbub Hassan
The 30-300GHz millimeter wave (mmWave) band is currently being pursued to combat the rising capacity demands in 5G, WiFi, and IoT networks. Due to the high frequency, impulse radio…
Energy Efficient Event Localization and Classification for Nano IoT
Shree Prasad M., Trilochan Panigrahi, Mahbub Hassan
Advancements in nanotechnology promises new capabilities for Internet of Things (IoT) to monitor extremely fine-grained events by deploying sensors as small as a few hundred nanome…
Direction of Arrival Estimation for Nanoscale Sensor Networks
Shree M. Prasad, Trilochan Panigrahi, Mahbub Hassan
Nanoscale wireless sensor networks (NWSNs) could be within reach soon using graphene-based antennas, which resonate in 0.1-10 terahertz band. To conserve the limited energy availab…
EnTrans:Leveraging Kinetic Energy Harvesting Signal for Transportation Mode Detection
Guohao Lan, Weitao Xu, Dong Ma +3
Monitoring the daily transportation modes of an individual provides useful information in many application domains, such as urban design, real-time journey recommendation, as well…
Capacitor Based Activity Sensing for Kinetic Powered Wearable IoTs
Guohao Lan, Dong Ma, Weitao Xu +2
We propose a novel use of the conventional energy storage component, i.e., capacitor, in kinetic-powered wearable IoTs as a sensor to detect human activities. Since different activ…
Service on Demand: Drone Base Stations Cruising in the Cellular Network
Azade Fotouhi, Ming Ding, Mahbub Hassan
In this paper, the deployment of drone base stations to provide higher performance in the cellular networks is analyzed. In particular, we investigate a new mobility model for dron…
Massive MIMO Performance Comparison of Beamforming and Multiplexing in the Terahertz Band
Sayed Amir Hoseini, Ming Ding, Mahbub Hassan
In this paper, we compare the performance of two main MIMO techniques, beamforming and multiplexing, in the Terahertz (THz) band. The main problem with the THz band is its huge pro…
A New Look at MIMO Capacity in the Millimeter Wave
Sayed Amir Hoseini, Ming Ding, Mahbub Hassan
In this paper, we present a new theoretical discovery that the multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) capacity can be influenced by atmosphere molecules. In more detail, some co…
DroneCells: Improving 5G Spectral Efficiency using Drone-mounted Flying Base Stations
Azade Fotouhi, Ming Ding, Mahbub Hassan
We study a cellular networking scenario, called DroneCells, where miniaturized base stations (BSs) are mounted on flying drones to serve mobile users. We propose that the drones ne…
Dynamic Base Station Repositioning to Improve Spectral Efficiency of Drone Small Cells
Azade Fotouhi, Ming Ding, Mahbub Hassan
With recent advancements in drone technology, researchers are now considering the possibility of deploying small cells served by base stations mounted on flying drones. A major adv…
Dynamic Base Station Repositioning to Improve Performance of Drone Small Cells
Azade Fotouhi, Ming Ding, Mahbub Hassan
Thanks to the recent advancements in drone technology, it has become viable and cost-effective to quickly deploy small cells in areas of urgent needs by using a drone as a cellular…