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Method for estimating and correcting a drift between clocks of receiving transceiver and a corresponding emitting transceiver, and receive for implementing said method

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Ruben Merz, Manuel Flury

Method for estimating and correcting a frequency offset between a local clock of a receiving transceiver and a remote clock of an emitting transceiver comprises receiving by said receiving transceiver, a signal emitted by the emitting transceiver, said sig ...

2013

On Secure and Precise IR-UWB Ranging

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Manuel Flury, Marcin Poturalski, Panagiotis Papadimitratos

To provide high ranging precision in multipath environments, a ranging protocol should find the first arriving path, rather than the strongest path. We demonstrate a new attack vector that disrupts such precise Time-of-Arrival (ToA) estimation, and allows ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2012

Distance Bounding with IEEE 802.15.4a: Attacks and Countermeasures

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Manuel Flury, Marcin Poturalski, Panagiotis Papadimitratos

Impulse Radio Ultra-Wideband, in particular the recent standard IEEE 802.15.4a, is a primary candidate for implementing distance bounding protocols, thanks to its ability to perform accurate indoor ranging. Distance bounding protocols allow two wireless de ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Synchronization for Impulse-Radio UWB With Energy-Detection and Multi-User Interference: Algorithms and Application to IEEE 802.15.4a

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Ruben Merz, Manuel Flury

Energy-detection (ED) receivers can take advantage of the ranging and multipath resistance capabilities of impulse-radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) physical layers at a much lower complexity than coherent receivers. However, ED receivers are extremely vulnera ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Interference Robustness and Security of Impulse-Radio Ultra-Wide Band Networks

Manuel Flury

In this thesis we study Impulse-Radio Ultra-Wide Band (IR-UWB), a physical layer radio technology offering many features that make it a promising choice for future short-range wireless networks. The challenges in such networks are many, ranging from the co ...

EPFL2010

Effectiveness of Distance-Decreasing Attacks Against Impulse Radio Ranging

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Manuel Flury, Marcin Poturalski, Panagiotis Papadimitratos

We expose the vulnerability of an emerging wireless ranging technology, impulse radio ultra-wide band (IR-UWB), to distance-decreasing attacks on the physical communication layer (PHY). These attacks violate the security of secure ranging protocols that al ...

2010

The Cicada Attack: Degradation and Denial of Service in IR Ranging

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Manuel Flury, Marcin Poturalski, Panagiotis Papadimitratos

We demonstrate that an interferer with malicious intentions can significantly degrade the performance of impulse radio (IR) ranging. The cicada attack we have developed can decrease the distance (degradation of service) measured by ranging algorithms desig ...

2010

Clock-Offset Tracking Software Algorithms For IR-UWB Energy-Detection Receivers

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Ruben Merz, Manuel Flury

We present a clock-offset tracking algorithm for impulse-radio ultra-wide band (IR-UWB) energy-detection receivers. There is a complexity versus performance trade-off for the design of IR-UWB energy-detection receivers: Extremely low-complexity energy-dete ...

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Robust Non-Coherent Timing Acquisition in IEEE 802.15.4a IR-UWB Networks

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Ruben Merz, Manuel Flury

Non-coherent energy-detection receivers are an attractive choice for IEEE 802.15.4a networks. They can exploit the ranging capabilities and the multipath resistance of impulse-radio ultra-wide band (IR-UWB) at a low complexity. However, IEEE 802.15.4a rece ...

2009

Robust IEEE 802.15.4a Energy Detection Receiver Using Statistical Interference Modeling

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Ruben Merz, Manuel Flury

Energy-detection is appealing for IEEE 802.15.4a receivers as it allows to exploit the ranging capabilities and the multipath resistance of impulse-radio UWB at a reasonable complexity. IEEE 802.15.4a receivers operate with interference created by uncontro ...

2009

An Energy Detection Receiver Robust to Multi-User Interference for IEEE 802.15.4a Networks

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Ruben Merz, Manuel Flury

Energy-detection receivers are appealing to IEEE 802.15.4a low data-rate networks because of their low complexity. With a reasonable energy consumption, these receivers can exploit the ranging capabilities and multipath resistance of impulse-radio UWB (IR- ...

2008

Method for retrieving data from Ultra Wideband radio transmission signals

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Ruben Merz, Manuel Flury

The present invention concerns a receiver and a method for retrieving data from Ultra wideband radio transmission signals received by a receiver and transmitted in packets containing at least a preamble known to the receiver and a payload containing data u ...

2008

Performance Evaluation of an IEEE 802.15.4a Physical Layer with Energy Detection and Multi-User Interference

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Ruben Merz, Manuel Flury

We evaluate the performance of an IEEE 802.15.4a ultra-wide band (UWB) physical layer, with an energy-detection receiver, in the presence of multi-user interference (MUI). A complete packet based system is considered. We take into account packet detection ...

2007

Managing Impulsive Interference in Impulse Radio UWB Networks

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Ruben Merz, Manuel Flury

Wireless sensor networks are ideally built on low-cost, low-complexity nodes that have a low power consumption to guarantee a long network lifetime. These are all properties that can potentially be achieved with impulse radio ultra-wide band (IR-UWB). In a ...

2007

Interference Mitigation by Statistical Interference Modeling in an Impulse Radio UWB Receiver

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Manuel Flury

Some impulse radio UWB (IR-UWB) networks may allow concurrent transmissions without power control (for example MAC protocols that do not use power control, or co-existing, non-coordinated piconets). In such cases, it has been proposed to mitigate multi-use ...

2006