Publications related to Internet of things

ProGAP: Progressive Graph Neural Networks with Differential Privacy Guarantees

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become a popular tool for learning on graphs, but their widespread use raises privacy concerns as graph data can contain personal or sensitive information. Differentially private GNN models have been recently proposed to p ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2024

Integrated Wireless Power, Data Communication, and Thermal Sensing System for Autonomous Multisite Brain Implants

Implanted medical devices (IMDs) have been widely developed to support the monitoring and recording of biological data inside the body or brain. Wirelessly powered IMDs, a subset of implantable electronics, have been proposed to eliminate the limitations r ...

EPFL2024

A review of the security vulnerabilities and countermeasures in the Internet of Things solutions: A bright future for the Blockchain

Jan Van Herle, Hossein Pourrahmani

The current advances in the Internet of Things (IoT) and the solutions being offered by this technology have accounted IoT among the top ten technologies that will transform the global economy by 2030. IoT is a state-of-the-art paradigm that has developed ...

2023

DChannel: Accelerating Mobile ApplicationsWith Parallel High-bandwidth and Low-latency Channels

Haitham Al Hassanieh

Interactive mobile applications like web browsing and gaming are known to benefit significantly from low latency networking, as applications communicate with cloud servers and other users' devices. Emerging mobile channel standards have not met these needs ...

USENIX ASSOC2023

Spatial-Temporal Graph Attention Fuser for Calibration in IoT Air Pollution Monitoring Systems

Olga Fink, Mengjie Zhao, Keivan Faghih Niresi

The use of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors for air pollution monitoring has significantly increased, resulting in the deployment of low-cost sensors. Despite this advancement, accurately calibrating these sensors in uncontrolled environmental conditions r ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2023

Indoor Real-time localization system design for Internet of Things applications

Pooneh Mohaghegh

With the prevalence of smartphones, watches, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the ability to track their positions is becoming increasingly important. For many indoor positioning systems (IPSs), providing an uninterrupted flow of information in real-t ...

EPFL2023

Radiation Performance of Antennas Implanted in Small Animals for Neuroengineering

Anja Skrivervik, Stéphanie Lacour, Mingxiang Gao, Zvonimir Sipus, Kangling Wu, James Daniel Rosenthal

Wireless data communication could improve the performance and reliability of biomedical implants used in fundamental neuroscience research by removing infection-prone transcutaneous cabling. The small size of common research animals like mice and rodents, ...

IEEE2023

Using Gaming Footage as a Source of Internet Latency Information

Catalina Paz Alvarez Inostroza, Aikaterini Argyraki

Keeping track of Internet latency is a classic measurement problem. Open measurement platforms like RIPE Atlas are a great solution, but they also face challenges: preventing network overload that may result from uncontrolled active measurements, and maint ...

2023

GAP: Differentially Private Graph Neural Networks with Aggregation Perturbation

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Sina Sajadmanesh

In this paper, we study the problem of learning Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with Differential Privacy (DP). We propose a novel differentially private GNN based on Aggregation Perturbation (GAP), which adds stochastic noise to the GNN's aggregation functio ...

Usenix Assoc2023

Real-time Personalized Monitoring of Neurological Disorders on Wearable Systems

Renato Zanetti

The terminology of neurological disorders encompasses a range of serious illnesses (e.g., epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease) leading to morbidity, disability, and stigma. Epilepsy alone affects over 50 million people worldwide, and these figures are rising as ...

EPFL2023

Chaosity: Understanding Contemporary NUMA-architectures

Anastasia Ailamaki, Viktor Sanca, Syed Mohammad Aunn Raza, Hamish Mcniece Hill Nicholson, Andreea Nica

Modern hardware is increasingly complex, requiring increasing effort to understand in order to carefully engineer systems for optimal performance and effective utilization. Moreover, established design principles and assumptions are not portable to modern ...

2023

Transformational IoT sensing for air pollution and thermal exposures

Dusan Licina

Cities today encounter significant challenges pertaining to urbanization and population growth, resource availability, and climate change. Concurrently, unparalleled datasets are generated through Internet of Things (IoT) sensing implemented at urban, buil ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

PROFACTORY: Improving IoT Security via Formalized Protocol Customization

Mathias Josef Payer, Fei Wang, Duo Xu, Xiangyu Zhang

As IoT applications gain widespread adoption, it becomes important to design and implement IoT protocols with security. Existing research in protocol security reveals that the majority of disclosed protocol vulnerabilities are caused by incorrectly impleme ...

USENIX ASSOC2022

A Low-Complexity LoRa Synchronization Algorithm Robust to Sampling Time Offsets

Orion Afisiadis, Mathieu Pierre Xhonneux

LoRaWAN is nowadays one of the most popular protocols for low-power Internet of Things communications. Although its physical layer, namely LoRa, has been thoroughly studied in the literature, aspects related to the synchronization of LoRa receivers have re ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

A blockchain and IoT-based lightweight framework for enabling information transparency in supply chain finance

Jinzhi Lu, Jingjing Chen

Supply Chain Finance (SCF) refers to the financial service in which banks rely on core enterprises to manage the capital flow and logistics of upstream and downstream enterprises. SCF adopts a self-testing and closed-loop credit model to control funds and ...

KEAI PUBLISHING LTD2022

Strategies, Techniques and Systems for powering low-maintenance and battery-free devices through Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer

Roberto La Rosa

The purpose of this research has a background in the market for Internet of Things (IoT)devices and wireless sensor networks. The Market Forecast predicts the connection of a trillion"things" by 2025. The global smart sensor market size trend grows from US ...

EPFL2022

On the Insecurity of Vehicles Against Protocol-Level Bluetooth Threats

Mathias Josef Payer, Daniele Antonioli

Cars are some of the most security-critical consumer devices. On the one hand, owners expect rich infotainment features, including audio, hands-free calls, contact management, or navigation through their connected mobile phone. On the other hand, the infot ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2022

HolA: Holistic and Autonomous Attestation for IoT Networks

Flavio Toffalini, Eleonora Losiouk

Collective Remote Attestation (CRA) is a well-established approach where a single Verifier attests the integrity of multiple devices in a single execution of the challenge-response protocol. Current CRA solutions are well-suited for Internet of Things (IoT ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022

Blockchain-based Practical Multi-agent Secure Comparison and its Application in Auctions

Boi Faltings, Sujit Prakash Gujar, Sankarshan Damle

AI applications find widespread use in a variety of domains. For further acceptance, mostly when multiple agents interact with the system, we must aim to preserve the privacy of participants information in such applications. Towards this, the Yao’s Million ...

ACM2022

BLURtooth: Exploiting Cross-Transport Key Derivation in Bluetooth Classic and Bluetooth Low Energy

Mathias Josef Payer, Daniele Antonioli

Bluetooth is a pervasive wireless technology specified in an open standard. The standard defines Bluetooth Classic (BT) for high-throughput wireless services and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) very low-power ones. The standard also specifies security mechanism ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2022