Publications related to Personal area network

Electromagnetic Radiation of Implantable Antennas

In the development of implantable bioelectronics, the establishment of efficient wireless RF links between implants and external nodes is crucial, providing substantial contributions to the advancement of medical diagnosis, therapies, and basic science. Im ...

EPFL2024

SecureCells: A Secure Compartmentalized Architecture

Babak Falsafi, Mathias Josef Payer, Yuanlong Li, Andrés Sánchez Marín, Florian Hofhammer, Siddharth Gupta, Atri Bhattacharyya

Modern programs are monolithic, combining code of varied provenance without isolation, all the while running on network-connected devices. A vulnerability in any component may compromise code and data of all other components. Compartmentalization separates ...

2023

Global, Passive Detection of Connection Tampering

Louis-Henri Manuel Jakob Merino

In-network devices around the world monitor and tamper with connections for many reasons, including intrusion prevention, combating spam or phishing, and country-level censorship. Connection tampering seeks to block access to specific domain names or keywo ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2023

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

Analysing the effects of residential mobility behaviours on the composition of personal network in Switzerland

Vincent Kaufmann, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Gil Viry

Individual life courses are marked by residential mobility often associated with family and workplace changes and therefore likely to be related to the types of personal relationships people develop and maintain. Evidence about the relationship between res ...

2021

Analyzing and Protecting Communication Metadata

Ludovic Barman

Most communication systems (e.g., e-mails, instant messengers, VPNs) use encryption to prevent third parties from learning sensitive information. However, encrypted communications protect the contents but often leak metadata: the amount of data sent and th ...

EPFL2021

Enhancing the Reliability of Dense LoRaWAN Networks With Multi-User Receivers

Andreas Peter Burg, Joachim Tobias Tapparel, Mathieu Pierre Xhonneux

LoRaWAN is a low-power wireless technology that provides long-range connectivity to battery-powered Internet of Things (IoT) devices. To minimize the energy consumption of the IoT nodes, LoRaWAN networks use for the uplink a pure non-slotted ALOHA multiple ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Drone-aided Localization in LoRa IoT Networks

Dario Floreano, Alexandru Rusu, Fabrizio Schiano, Giuseppe Cocco

Besides being part of the Internet of Things (IoT), drones can play a relevant role in it as enablers. The 3D mobility of UAVs can be exploited to improve node localization in IoT networks for, e.g., search and rescue or goods localization and tracking. On ...

IEEE2020

Physical Layer Aspects of LoRa and Full-Duplex Wireless Transceivers

Orion Afisiadis

Wireless communications are currently faced with two main challenges. The first challenge stems from the enormous number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices that transmit very small amounts of data. The second challenge is the need for ever-increasing data ...

EPFL2020

Understanding the Reconstruction of Personal Networks Through Residential Trajectories

Vincent Kaufmann, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Gil Viry

This article examines how residential trajectories influence the spatiality and composition of personal networks. Three mechanisms are considered: the addition of spatially close network members, the selection of spatially distant network members, and the ...

2020

BIAS: Bluetooth Impersonation AttackS

Daniele Antonioli

Bluetooth (BR/EDR) is a pervasive technology for wireless communication used by billions of devices. The Bluetooth standard includes a legacy authentication procedure and a secure authentication procedure, allowing devices to authenticate to each other usi ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2020

Lora Digital Receiver Analysis And Implementation

Andreas Peter Burg, Orion Afisiadis, Reza Ghanaatian Jahromi, Matthieu Cotting

Low power wide area network technologies (LPWANs) are attracting attention because they fulfill the need for long range low power communication for the Internet of Things. LoRa is one of the proprietary LPWAN physical layer (PHY) technologies, which provid ...

IEEE2019

Reliability Mechanisms for Controllers in Real-Time Cyber-Physical Systems

Maaz Mashood Mohiuddin

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are real-world processes that are controlled by computer algorithms. We consider CPSs where a centralized, software-based controller maintains the process in a desired state by exchanging measurements and setpoints with proces ...

EPFL2018

Coordinated Optimization and Control for Smart Grids

Altug Bitlislioglu

In this thesis, we consider commercial buildings with available heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, and develop methods to assess and exploit their energy storage and production potential to collectively offer ancillary services to th ...

EPFL2018

Adaptive Learning-Based Compressive Sampling for Low-power Wireless Implants

Volkan Cevher, Catherine Dehollain, Mahsa Shoaran, Yusuf Leblebici, Gürkan Yilmaz, Cosimo Aprile, Luca Baldassarre, Kerim Türe, Franco Maloberti

Implantable systems are nowadays being used to interface the human brain with external devices, in order to understand and potentially treat neurological disorders. The most predominant design constraints are the system’s area and power. In this paper, we ...

2018

Price-based Controller for Quality-Fair HTTP Adaptive Streaming

Pascal Frossard, Laura Toni, Stefano D'Aronco

HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) has become the universal technology for video streaming over the Internet. Many HAS system designs aim at sharing the network bandwidth in a rate-fair manner. However, rate fairness is in general not equivalent to quality fair ...

IEEE2016

Redundancy in Communication Networks for Smart Grids

Miroslav Popovic

Traditional electric power grids are currently undergoing fundamental changes: Representative examples are the increase in the penetration of volatile and decentralized renewable-energy sources and the emerging distributed energy-storage systems. These cha ...

EPFL2016

An Enhanced Design Methodology for Resonant Clock Trees

Giovanni De Micheli, Xifan Tang, Vasileios Pavlidis, Somayyeh Rahimian Omam

Clock distribution networks consume a considerable portion of the power dissipated by synchronous circuits. In conventional clock distribution networks, clock buffers are inserted to retain signal integrity along the long interconnects, which, in turn, sig ...

American Scientific Publishers2013

Algebraic algorithms for network information flow

Javad Ebrahimi Boroojeni

Ahlswede et al. in the seminal paper [1] have shown that in data transfer over networks, processing the data at the nodes can significantly improve the throughput. As proved by Li et al. in [2], even with a simple type of operation, namely linear operation ...

EPFL2013

Development of Reconfigurable Circuits for WPAN Applications

This thesis presents the development of a low-power analog-to-digital converter (ADC) which is intended to be used in WPAN receivers. WPAN devices are usually mobile and, therefore, operate on batteries. This puts a strict limitation on the power dissipati ...

EPFL2013