Publications related to Human Interaction Discovery in Smartphone Proximity Networks

On the Insecurity of Vehicles Against Protocol-Level Bluetooth Threats

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

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

Sensing Eating Events in Context: A Smartphone-Only Approach

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Lakmal Buddika Meegahapola

While the task of automatically detecting eating events has been examined in prior work using various wearable devices, the use of smartphones as standalone devices to infer eating events remains an open issue. This paper proposes a framework that infers e ...

2022

LIGHTBLUE: Automatic Profile-Aware Debloating of Bluetooth Stacks

Mathias Josef Payer, Daniele Antonioli, Duo Xu

The Bluetooth standard is ubiquitously supported by computers, smartphones, and IoT devices. Due to its complexity, implementations require large codebases, which are prone to security vulnerabilities, such as the recently discovered BlueBorne and BadBluet ...

USENIX ASSOC2021

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

Key Negotiation Downgrade Attacks on Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy

Daniele Antonioli

Bluetooth (BR/EDR) and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) are pervasive wireless technologies specified in the Bluetooth standard. The standard includes key negotiation protocols used to generate long-term keys (during pairing) and session keys (during secure conn ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Implications of Position in Cryptography

Handan Kilinç Alper

In our daily lives, people or devices frequently need to learn their location for many reasons as some services depend on the absolute location or the proximity. The outcomes of positioning systems can have critical effects e.g., on military, emergency. Th ...

EPFL2018

Data Management in Participatory Sensing

Mehdi Riahi

In recent years there has been a proliferation of privately owned sensing devices such as GPS devices, cameras, home weather stations and, more importantly, smart-phones. Most of these devices are either intrinsically mobile, e.g., smart-phones and GPS dev ...

EPFL2015

Merging Inhomogeneous Proximity Sensor Systems for Social Network Analysis

Agon Bexheti, Amir Muaremi

Proximity information is a valuable source for social network analysis. Smartphone based sensors, like GPS, Bluetooth and ANT+, can be used to obtain proximity information between individuals within a group. However, in real-life scenarios, different peopl ...

Springer Int Publishing Ag2014

Quantifying and Protecting Location Privacy

Reza Shokri

Recent developments in information and communication technologies have been profound and life-changing. Most people are now equipped with smart phones with high computation power and communication capabilities. These devices can efficiently run multiple so ...

EPFL2013

Big Brother Knows Your Friends: on Privacy of Social Communities in Pervasive Networks

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Imad Aad, Igor Bilogrevic, Laurent Bindschaedler, Murtuza Jadliwala, Valtteri Niemi

Wireless network operators increasingly deploy WiFi hotspots and low-power, low-range base stations in order to satisfy users' growing demands for context-aware services and performance. In addition to providing better service, such capillary infrastructur ...

2012

Personal Robust Navigation in Challenging Applications

Pierre-Yves Gilliéron, Valérie Jeanne Thérèse Renaudin-Schouler

Personal navigation has grown rapidly with the introduction of ubiquitous computing and the new generation of smart phones. Appropriate localisation is nowadays a central element for many applications and mobile services. However the proper estimation of t ...

Cambridge University Press2011

Do Firms Know the Scope of their R&D Network? An Empirical Investigation of the Determinants of Network Awareness on French Survey Data

Stéphane Lhuillery

Although research and development (R&D) networks influence the innovation performance of their members, firms may not be fully aware of the scope of their network. In particular, due to cost reasons, they may not be fully informed of their “indirect ties”, ...

Taylor & Francis2011

Non-Interactive Location Surveying for Sensor Networks with Mobility-Differentiated ToA

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Jun Luo, Hersh Vardhan Shukla

Location-awareness is crucial to many applications of sensor networks. Existing location surveying approaches either rely on an inflexible infrastructure or suffer from high computation and communication load. In this paper, we present Non-intEractive lOca ...

IEEE2006