The formation control of multi-agent systems has increasingly drawn attention for fulfilling numerous emerging applications and services. To achieve high-accuracy formation, the location awareness of all agents becomes an essential requirement. In this paper, we address the problem of network localization and formation control in a cooperative system with asynchronous agents. In particular, we formulate the joint localization and synchronization of agents as a statistical inference problem. The underlying probabilistic model is represented by a factor graph from which a message-passing algorithm is designed that computes approximations of the marginals of unknown variables, i.e. agents’ locations and clock offsets. Due to the Euclidean-norm operator involved in their computation no parametric closed-form expressions of the messages exist. As a compromise, implemented message-passing methods therefore resort to approximations of these messages. Conventional methods rely either on a first-order Taylor expansion of the norm operation or on non-parametric representations, e.g. by means particle filters (PFs), to compute such approximations. However, the former approach suffers from poor performance while the latter one experiences high complexity. The proposed message-passing algorithm in this paper is parametric. Specifically, it passes Gaussian messages that can be essentially obtained by suitably augmenting the factor graph and applying on it a hybrid method for combining belief propagation and variational message passing. Subsequently, the agents can exploit the estimated locations for determining the control policy. Two types of control policy are designed based on the optimization of a generalized cost function. We show that the proposed scheme enjoys a reduced complexity for multi-agent localization while achieving the desired formation with excellent accuracy.
{"title":"Wireless Localization and Formation Control With Asynchronous Agents","authors":"Weijie Yuan;Zhaohui Yang;Liangming Chen;Ruiheng Zhang;Yiheng Yao;Yuanhao Cui;Hong Zhang;Derrick Wing Kwan Ng","doi":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3414616","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3414616","url":null,"abstract":"The formation control of multi-agent systems has increasingly drawn attention for fulfilling numerous emerging applications and services. To achieve high-accuracy formation, the location awareness of all agents becomes an essential requirement. In this paper, we address the problem of network localization and formation control in a cooperative system with asynchronous agents. In particular, we formulate the joint localization and synchronization of agents as a statistical inference problem. The underlying probabilistic model is represented by a factor graph from which a message-passing algorithm is designed that computes approximations of the marginals of unknown variables, i.e. agents’ locations and clock offsets. Due to the Euclidean-norm operator involved in their computation no parametric closed-form expressions of the messages exist. As a compromise, implemented message-passing methods therefore resort to approximations of these messages. Conventional methods rely either on a first-order Taylor expansion of the norm operation or on non-parametric representations, e.g. by means particle filters (PFs), to compute such approximations. However, the former approach suffers from poor performance while the latter one experiences high complexity. The proposed message-passing algorithm in this paper is parametric. Specifically, it passes Gaussian messages that can be essentially obtained by suitably augmenting the factor graph and applying on it a hybrid method for combining belief propagation and variational message passing. Subsequently, the agents can exploit the estimated locations for determining the control policy. Two types of control policy are designed based on the optimization of a generalized cost function. We show that the proposed scheme enjoys a reduced complexity for multi-agent localization while achieving the desired formation with excellent accuracy.","PeriodicalId":73294,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal on selected areas in communications : a publication of the IEEE Communications Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141933172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-14DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2024.3414621
Dawei Wang;Zijun Wang;Keping Yu;Zhiqiang Wei;Hongbo Zhao;Naofal Al-Dhahir;Mohsen Guizani;Victor C. M. Leung
This paper proposes an active aerial reconfigurable intelligent surface (ARIS) assisted secure communication framework by integrating sensing and positioning against a mobile eavesdropper. In the proposed scheme, the base station (BS) beamforms the private information to the legitimate user and jams the eavesdropper with artificial noise (AN), while reconfiguring the phases and amplitudes of the passive signal by the active ARIS for promoting secure communications. To acquire the channel state information of the time-vary wiretap channel, the BS tracks the position of the eavesdropper by exploiting the reflected AN. Based on the tracked position of the eavesdropper in the previous time slot, we propose a secure communication scheme that aims to maximize the secrecy rate in the current time slot. This scheme is assisted by the ARIS through jointly optimizing the passive beamforming of the privacy information and AN, the reflection matrix of the ARIS, and the position of the ARIS. In the case of this non-convex quandary with highly coupled variables, we opt to disassemble it into three constituent subproblems and design an alternating optimization framework, where the optimal power beamforming at the BS is derived using a successive convex approximation method and semi-positive definite relaxation technique, the reconfigurable coefficient of the ARIS is optimized using the majorization-minimization algorithm, and the optimal position of the ARIS using the three-dimensional network is obtained by the deep deterministic policy gradient algorithm. Simulation results demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed scheme in the context of the secrecy rate when compared with benchmark schemes. By adopting the active beamforming and positioning technique, the secrecy rate can be increased by 38.3% and 10.8%, respectively.
本文提出了一种主动式空中可重构智能表面（ARIS）辅助安全通信框架，它将传感和定位集成在一起，以对抗移动窃听者。在所提出的方案中，基站（BS）将私人信息波束成形给合法用户，并用人工噪声（AN）干扰窃听者，同时通过主动空中可重构智能面（ARIS）重新配置无源信号的相位和振幅，以促进安全通信。为了获取时变窃听信道的信道状态信息，BS 利用反射的 AN 跟踪窃听者的位置。根据上一时隙跟踪到的窃听者位置，我们提出了一种安全通信方案，旨在最大限度地提高当前时隙的保密率。通过联合优化隐私信息和 AN 的无源波束成形、ARIS 的反射矩阵以及 ARIS 的位置，ARIS 可以辅助该方案。对于这种高度耦合变量的非凸窘境，我们选择将其分解为三个子问题，并设计了一个交替优化框架，其中利用连续凸近似方法和半正定松弛技术推导出 BS 的最佳功率波束成形，利用大化最小化算法优化 ARIS 的可重构系数，利用深度确定性策略梯度算法获得 ARIS 在三维网络中的最佳位置。仿真结果表明，与基准方案相比，所提方案在保密率方面具有更优越的性能。通过采用主动波束成形和定位技术，保密率可分别提高 38.3% 和 10.8%。
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Pub Date : 2024-06-14DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2024.3414613
Jiancheng An;Chau Yuen;Yong Liang Guan;Marco Di Renzo;Mérouane Debbah;H. Vincent Poor;Lajos Hanzo
Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) are capable of emulating reconfigurable physical neural networks by utilizing electromagnetic (EM) waves as carriers. They can also perform various complex computational and signal processing tasks. An SIM is constructed by densely integrating multiple metasurface layers, each consisting of a large number of small meta-atoms that can control the EM waves passing through it. In this paper, we harness an SIM for two-dimensional (2D) direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation. In contrast to conventional designs, an advanced SIM in front of a receiver array can be designed to automatically compute the 2D discrete Fourier transform (DFT) as the incident waves propagate through it. As a result, a receiver array can directly observe the angular spectrum of the incoming signal, and it can estimate the DOA by simply using probes to detect the energy distribution on the receiver array. This avoids the need for power inefficient radio frequency chains. To enable an SIM to perform the 2D DFT in the wave domain, we formulate an optimization problem that minimizes the mean square error (MSE) between the SIM’s EM response and the 2D DFT matrix. Then, a gradient descent algorithm is customized for iteratively updating the phase shift applied by each meta-atom of the SIM. To further improve the DOA estimation accuracy, we configure the phase shifts of the input layer of the SIM to generate a set of 2D DFT matrices associated with orthogonal spatial frequency bins. Additionally, we analytically evaluate the performance of the proposed SIM-based DOA estimator by deriving a tight upper bound for the MSE. Extensive numerical simulations verify the capability of an optimized SIM to perform DOA estimation and corroborate the theoretical analysis. Specifically, we show that an SIM is capable of performing DOA estimation with an MSE of the order of $10^{-4}$ .
堆叠智能元表面（SIM）能够利用电磁波作为载体，模拟可重新配置的物理神经网络。它们还能执行各种复杂的计算和信号处理任务。SIM 由多个元表面层密集集成而成，每个元表面层都由大量小型元原子组成，这些元原子可以控制穿过它的电磁波。在本文中，我们利用 SIM 进行二维（2D）到达方向（DOA）估计。与传统设计不同，接收器阵列前的先进 SIM 可在入射波传播时自动计算二维离散傅里叶变换（DFT）。因此，接收器阵列可以直接观测到入射信号的角频谱，只需使用探头探测接收器阵列上的能量分布，就能估算出 DOA。这就避免了使用低功耗的射频链。为了让 SIM 在波域中执行二维 DFT，我们提出了一个优化问题，使 SIM 的电磁响应与二维 DFT 矩阵之间的均方误差（MSE）最小。然后，我们定制了一种梯度下降算法，用于迭代更新 SIM 的每个元原子所应用的相移。为了进一步提高 DOA 估计精度，我们对 SIM 输入层的相移进行了配置，以生成一组与正交空间频率带相关联的二维 DFT 矩阵。此外，我们还通过推导出严格的 MSE 上限，对基于 SIM 的 DOA 估算器的性能进行了分析评估。广泛的数值模拟验证了优化 SIM 进行 DOA 估计的能力，并证实了理论分析。具体来说，我们发现 SIM 能够以 10^{-4}$ 的 MSE 进行 DOA 估计。
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The combination of communication and sensing is envisioned as a novel feature in the forthcoming sixth-generation (6G) wireless communication. The conventional approach to the joint sensing and communication (JSAC) system is utilizing one base station (BS) as both a sensing transmitter and a sensing receiver, which is known as monostatic sensing. However, the resulting self-interference issue requires additional hardware promotion to achieve full-duplexing. To overcome this issue, in this paper, we focus on cooperative sensing where the transmitter and receivers are non-co-located, which includes the bistatic and multistatic sensing. Specifically, the system model of cooperative sensing based on mobile networks is established. To demonstrate the feasibility of cooperative sensing, the bistatic radar cross section (RCS) is provided. As for the sensing method, a refined orthogonal matching pursuit (R-OMP) method is proposed to estimate the channel parameters and data fusion is also provided to derive the objects’ positions and velocities. Considering the non-negligible interference in the cooperative JSAC networks, we also discuss interference management in this paper. Simulation results show that the proposed cooperative sensing system improves the position and velocity estimation accuracy by over 20% when compared with monostatic sensing. The preliminary experiment results also verify the feasibility of the proposed system.
{"title":"Cooperative Sensing for 6G Mobile Cellular Networks: Feasibility, Performance, and Field Trial","authors":"Guangyi Liu;Rongyan Xi;Zixiang Han;Lincong Han;Xiaozhou Zhang;Liang Ma;Yajuan Wang;Mengting Lou;Jing Jin;Qixing Wang;Jiangzhou Wang","doi":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3414596","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3414596","url":null,"abstract":"The combination of communication and sensing is envisioned as a novel feature in the forthcoming sixth-generation (6G) wireless communication. The conventional approach to the joint sensing and communication (JSAC) system is utilizing one base station (BS) as both a sensing transmitter and a sensing receiver, which is known as monostatic sensing. However, the resulting self-interference issue requires additional hardware promotion to achieve full-duplexing. To overcome this issue, in this paper, we focus on cooperative sensing where the transmitter and receivers are non-co-located, which includes the bistatic and multistatic sensing. Specifically, the system model of cooperative sensing based on mobile networks is established. To demonstrate the feasibility of cooperative sensing, the bistatic radar cross section (RCS) is provided. As for the sensing method, a refined orthogonal matching pursuit (R-OMP) method is proposed to estimate the channel parameters and data fusion is also provided to derive the objects’ positions and velocities. Considering the non-negligible interference in the cooperative JSAC networks, we also discuss interference management in this paper. Simulation results show that the proposed cooperative sensing system improves the position and velocity estimation accuracy by over 20% when compared with monostatic sensing. The preliminary experiment results also verify the feasibility of the proposed system.","PeriodicalId":73294,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal on selected areas in communications : a publication of the IEEE Communications Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141933105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-14DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2024.3414609
Dario Tagliaferri;Marco Manzoni;Marouan Mizmizi;Stefano Tebaldini;Andrea Virgilio Monti-Guarnieri;Claudio Maria Prati;Umberto Spagnolini
Coherent multistatic radio imaging represents a pivotal opportunity for forthcoming wireless networks, which involves distributed nodes cooperating to achieve accurate sensing resolution and robustness. This paper delves into cooperative coherent imaging for vehicular radar networks. Herein, multiple radar-equipped vehicles cooperate to improve collective sensing capabilities and address the fundamental issue of distinguishing weak targets in close proximity to strong ones, a critical challenge for vulnerable road users’ protection. We prove the significant benefits of cooperative coherent imaging in the considered automotive scenario in terms of both probability of correct detection, evaluated considering several system parameters, as well as resolution capabilities, showcased by a dedicated experimental campaign wherein the collaboration between two vehicles enables the detection of the legs of a pedestrian close to a parked car. Moreover, as coherent processing of several sensors’ data requires very tight accuracy on clock synchronization and sensor’s positioning—referred to as phase synchronization—(such that to predict sensor-target distances up to a fraction of the carrier wavelength), we present a general three-step cooperative multistatic phase synchronization procedure, detailing the required information exchange among vehicles in the specific automotive radar context and assessing its feasibility and performance by hybrid Cramér-Rao bound.
{"title":"Cooperative Coherent Multistatic Imaging and Phase Synchronization in Networked Sensing","authors":"Dario Tagliaferri;Marco Manzoni;Marouan Mizmizi;Stefano Tebaldini;Andrea Virgilio Monti-Guarnieri;Claudio Maria Prati;Umberto Spagnolini","doi":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3414609","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3414609","url":null,"abstract":"Coherent multistatic radio imaging represents a pivotal opportunity for forthcoming wireless networks, which involves distributed nodes cooperating to achieve accurate sensing resolution and robustness. This paper delves into cooperative coherent imaging for vehicular radar networks. Herein, multiple radar-equipped vehicles cooperate to improve collective sensing capabilities and address the fundamental issue of distinguishing weak targets in close proximity to strong ones, a critical challenge for vulnerable road users’ protection. We prove the significant benefits of cooperative coherent imaging in the considered automotive scenario in terms of both probability of correct detection, evaluated considering several system parameters, as well as resolution capabilities, showcased by a dedicated experimental campaign wherein the collaboration between two vehicles enables the detection of the legs of a pedestrian close to a parked car. Moreover, as coherent processing of several sensors’ data requires very tight accuracy on clock synchronization and sensor’s positioning—referred to as phase synchronization—(such that to predict sensor-target distances up to a fraction of the carrier wavelength), we present a general three-step cooperative multistatic phase synchronization procedure, detailing the required information exchange among vehicles in the specific automotive radar context and assessing its feasibility and performance by hybrid Cramér-Rao bound.","PeriodicalId":73294,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal on selected areas in communications : a publication of the IEEE Communications Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141933187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-14DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2024.3414628
Jiacheng Wang;Hongyang Du;Dusit Niyato;Zehui Xiong;Jiawen Kang;Bo Ai;Zhu Han;Dong In Kim
Groundbreaking applications such as ChatGPT have heightened research interest in generative artificial intelligence (GAI). Essentially, GAI excels not only in content generation but also signal processing, offering support for wireless sensing. Hence, we introduce a novel GAI-assisted human flow detection system (G-HFD). Rigorously, G-HFD first uses the channel state information (CSI) to estimate the velocity and acceleration of propagation path length change of the human induced reflection (HIR). Then, given the strong inference ability of the diffusion model, we propose a unified weighted conditional diffusion model (UW-CDM) to denoise the estimation results, enabling detection of the number of targets. Next, we use the CSI obtained by a uniform linear array with wavelength spacing to estimate the HIR’s time of flight and direction of arrival (DoA). In this process, UW-CDM solves the problem of ambiguous DoA spectrum, ensuring accurate DoA estimation. Finally, through clustering, G-HFD determines the number of subflows and the number of targets in each subflow, i.e., the subflow size. The evaluation based on practical downlink communication signals shows G-HFD’s accuracy of subflow size detection can reach 91%. This validates its effectiveness and underscores the significant potential of GAI in the context of wireless sensing.
ChatGPT 等开创性应用提高了对生成式人工智能（GAI）的研究兴趣。从本质上讲，GAI 不仅擅长内容生成，还擅长信号处理，可为无线传感提供支持。因此，我们推出了一种新颖的 GAI 辅助人流检测系统（G-HFD）。严谨地说，G-HFD 首先利用信道状态信息（CSI）来估计人流反射（HIR）传播路径长度变化的速度和加速度。然后，鉴于扩散模型的强大推理能力，我们提出了统一加权条件扩散模型（UW-CDM）来对估计结果进行去噪处理，从而实现对目标数量的检测。接下来，我们利用波长间隔均匀线性阵列获得的 CSI 来估计 HIR 的飞行时间和到达方向（DoA）。在此过程中，UW-CDM 解决了 DoA 频谱模糊的问题，确保了准确的 DoA 估计。最后，通过聚类，G-HFD 确定子流数量和每个子流中的目标数量，即子流大小。基于实际下行通信信号的评估表明，G-HFD 的子流大小检测准确率可达 91%。这不仅验证了 GAI 的有效性，也凸显了 GAI 在无线传感领域的巨大潜力。
{"title":"Generative Artificial Intelligence Assisted Wireless Sensing: Human Flow Detection in Practical Communication Environments","authors":"Jiacheng Wang;Hongyang Du;Dusit Niyato;Zehui Xiong;Jiawen Kang;Bo Ai;Zhu Han;Dong In Kim","doi":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3414628","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3414628","url":null,"abstract":"Groundbreaking applications such as ChatGPT have heightened research interest in generative artificial intelligence (GAI). Essentially, GAI excels not only in content generation but also signal processing, offering support for wireless sensing. Hence, we introduce a novel GAI-assisted human flow detection system (G-HFD). Rigorously, G-HFD first uses the channel state information (CSI) to estimate the velocity and acceleration of propagation path length change of the human induced reflection (HIR). Then, given the strong inference ability of the diffusion model, we propose a unified weighted conditional diffusion model (UW-CDM) to denoise the estimation results, enabling detection of the number of targets. Next, we use the CSI obtained by a uniform linear array with wavelength spacing to estimate the HIR’s time of flight and direction of arrival (DoA). In this process, UW-CDM solves the problem of ambiguous DoA spectrum, ensuring accurate DoA estimation. Finally, through clustering, G-HFD determines the number of subflows and the number of targets in each subflow, i.e., the subflow size. The evaluation based on practical downlink communication signals shows G-HFD’s accuracy of subflow size detection can reach 91%. This validates its effectiveness and underscores the significant potential of GAI in the context of wireless sensing.","PeriodicalId":73294,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal on selected areas in communications : a publication of the IEEE Communications Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141933168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
For increasing Internet of Things (IoT) devices, 6G wireless technology aims for ubiquitous communications in which positioning services are necessary. Private spatial keyword-based positioning service is promising in 6G-oriented IoT since it positions users based on spatial locations and textual keywords while protecting user privacy. However, due to economic benefits or malicious attacks, positioning service providers may return erroneous or incomplete results, which cause tremendous economic damage and security threats, e.g., always assigning a selective driver for the specific car-hailing user. A technical challenge for extending existing private schemes to enable users to verify the correctness and completeness of positioning results is the distinctive positioning paradigm between compared spatial locations and matched textual keywords. This paper proposes a private and verifiable spatial keyword positioning scheme named VSpatial in 6G-oriented IoT. VSpatial enables users to verify the correctness and completeness of spatial keyword-based positioning results while preserving user privacy. The main inspiration for addressing the technical challenge is converting both spatial locations and textual keywords into an internal status, i.e., adapting comparison and matching to existence judging by multiple cryptographic tools, such as hierarchical cube and pseudorandom function. Based on this inspiration, we design a novel private authenticated data structure (named PVTree), and then propose two constructions of VSpatial, i.e., VSpatial-S and VSpatial-D, to suit static and dynamic environments, respectively. The core idea for adapting VSpatial-S to VSpatial-D is transferring one whole PVTree into multiple exponential-size partitions. Security analysis proves the security and verifiability of VSpatial. Theoretical and experimental evaluations show that VSpatial achieves faster-than-linear positioning efficiency and linear verification overhead.
{"title":"VSpatial: Enabling Private and Verifiable Spatial Keyword-Based Positioning in 6G-Oriented IoT","authors":"Weiting Zhang;Mingyang Zhao;Zhuoyu Sun;Chuan Zhang;Jinwen Liang;Liehuang Zhu;Song Guo","doi":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3414605","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3414605","url":null,"abstract":"For increasing Internet of Things (IoT) devices, 6G wireless technology aims for ubiquitous communications in which positioning services are necessary. Private spatial keyword-based positioning service is promising in 6G-oriented IoT since it positions users based on spatial locations and textual keywords while protecting user privacy. However, due to economic benefits or malicious attacks, positioning service providers may return erroneous or incomplete results, which cause tremendous economic damage and security threats, e.g., always assigning a selective driver for the specific car-hailing user. A technical challenge for extending existing private schemes to enable users to verify the correctness and completeness of positioning results is the distinctive positioning paradigm between compared spatial locations and matched textual keywords. This paper proposes a private and verifiable spatial keyword positioning scheme named VSpatial in 6G-oriented IoT. VSpatial enables users to verify the correctness and completeness of spatial keyword-based positioning results while preserving user privacy. The main inspiration for addressing the technical challenge is converting both spatial locations and textual keywords into an internal status, i.e., adapting comparison and matching to existence judging by multiple cryptographic tools, such as hierarchical cube and pseudorandom function. Based on this inspiration, we design a novel private authenticated data structure (named PVTree), and then propose two constructions of VSpatial, i.e., VSpatial-S and VSpatial-D, to suit static and dynamic environments, respectively. The core idea for adapting VSpatial-S to VSpatial-D is transferring one whole PVTree into multiple exponential-size partitions. Security analysis proves the security and verifiability of VSpatial. Theoretical and experimental evaluations show that VSpatial achieves faster-than-linear positioning efficiency and linear verification overhead.","PeriodicalId":73294,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal on selected areas in communications : a publication of the IEEE Communications Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141933189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-14DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2024.3414597
Jingyang Hu;Hongbo Jiang;Siyu Chen;Qibo Zhang;Zhu Xiao;Daibo Liu;Jiangchuan Liu;Bo Li
Wi-Fi signals contain information about the surrounding propagation environment and have been widely used in various sensing applications such as gesture recognition, respiratory monitoring, and indoor position. Nevertheless, this information can also be easily stolen by eavesdroppers to obtain private information. In this paper, we propose WiShield, a new framework that protects legitimate users using Wi-Fi sensing applications while preventing unauthorized privacy attacks. The implementation of WiShield is based on a simple principle of physically encrypting Wi-Fi channel status information (CSI) to prevent eavesdroppers from inferring sensitive information through stolen CSI. To achieve a balance between encryption strength, sensing accuracy, and communication quality, we design an efficient multi-objective optimization framework that can safely deliver decryption keys to legitimate users and prevent illegal eavesdropping by eavesdroppers. We implemented the WiShield prototype on an SDR platform and conducted extensive experiments to verify its effectiveness in common Wi-Fi sensing applications. We believe that the implementation of WiShield can improve the privacy standards of Wi-Fi sensing applications, and it is also an important step towards making the integration of Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC).
{"title":"WiShield: Privacy Against Wi-Fi Human Tracking","authors":"Jingyang Hu;Hongbo Jiang;Siyu Chen;Qibo Zhang;Zhu Xiao;Daibo Liu;Jiangchuan Liu;Bo Li","doi":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3414597","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3414597","url":null,"abstract":"Wi-Fi signals contain information about the surrounding propagation environment and have been widely used in various sensing applications such as gesture recognition, respiratory monitoring, and indoor position. Nevertheless, this information can also be easily stolen by eavesdroppers to obtain private information. In this paper, we propose WiShield, a new framework that protects legitimate users using Wi-Fi sensing applications while preventing unauthorized privacy attacks. The implementation of WiShield is based on a simple principle of physically encrypting Wi-Fi channel status information (CSI) to prevent eavesdroppers from inferring sensitive information through stolen CSI. To achieve a balance between encryption strength, sensing accuracy, and communication quality, we design an efficient multi-objective optimization framework that can safely deliver decryption keys to legitimate users and prevent illegal eavesdropping by eavesdroppers. We implemented the WiShield prototype on an SDR platform and conducted extensive experiments to verify its effectiveness in common Wi-Fi sensing applications. We believe that the implementation of WiShield can improve the privacy standards of Wi-Fi sensing applications, and it is also an important step towards making the integration of Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC).","PeriodicalId":73294,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal on selected areas in communications : a publication of the IEEE Communications Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141933102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-14DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2024.3414580
Jing Bai;Jinsong Gui;Neal N. Xiong;Anfeng Liu;Jie Wu
Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS), as a promising sensing paradigm, significantly relies on wireless communication networks and widely distributed mobile workers to capture data from the surroundings. However, the positioning-dependent nature of most MCS tasks often requires workers to embed their positionings in reports, which may result in privacy leakage and a decline in their participation enthusiasm. Considering workers’ diverse perceptions of positioning privacy, in this paper we propose the Lightweight Positioning-Privacy Protection Scheme with Double-Layer Incentives (L3P-DLI) to meet their personalized privacy requirements in an efficient and low-cost way while stimulating their participation. To the best of our knowledge, this scheme is the first attempt to employ proxy forwarding to protect workers’ sensitive positionings while ensuring high-quality sensing results. Moreover, our double-layer incentivizing mechanism is elaborately designed to motivate workers to actively participate or serve as proxies. Specifically, the bidirectional auction between data collectors and proxies can safeguard the security of data collectors, and compensate for the potential privacy leakage cost of proxies helping to forward data. Additionally, the reverse auction mechanism enables the platform to reward recruited workers to compensate for their various costs. Extensive experiments conducted on real-world datasets validate that L3P-DLI effectively preserves workers’ positioning privacy while maximizing their income to encourage participation.
{"title":"L3P-DLI: A Lightweight Positioning-Privacy Protection Scheme With Double-Layer Incentives for Wireless Crowd Sensing Systems","authors":"Jing Bai;Jinsong Gui;Neal N. Xiong;Anfeng Liu;Jie Wu","doi":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3414580","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3414580","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS), as a promising sensing paradigm, significantly relies on wireless communication networks and widely distributed mobile workers to capture data from the surroundings. However, the positioning-dependent nature of most MCS tasks often requires workers to embed their positionings in reports, which may result in privacy leakage and a decline in their participation enthusiasm. Considering workers’ diverse perceptions of positioning privacy, in this paper we propose the Lightweight Positioning-Privacy Protection Scheme with Double-Layer Incentives (L3P-DLI) to meet their personalized privacy requirements in an efficient and low-cost way while stimulating their participation. To the best of our knowledge, this scheme is the first attempt to employ proxy forwarding to protect workers’ sensitive positionings while ensuring high-quality sensing results. Moreover, our double-layer incentivizing mechanism is elaborately designed to motivate workers to actively participate or serve as proxies. Specifically, the bidirectional auction between data collectors and proxies can safeguard the security of data collectors, and compensate for the potential privacy leakage cost of proxies helping to forward data. Additionally, the reverse auction mechanism enables the platform to reward recruited workers to compensate for their various costs. Extensive experiments conducted on real-world datasets validate that L3P-DLI effectively preserves workers’ positioning privacy while maximizing their income to encourage participation.","PeriodicalId":73294,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal on selected areas in communications : a publication of the IEEE Communications Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141933171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-14DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2024.3414589
Peiyue Jiang;Xiaobo Gu;Haibo Zhou
Cooperative positioning in wireless networks has attracted great attention in recent years, as many applications require the exact location of all member nodes. The pairwise distance between the member nodes is conventionally constructed as an Euclidean Distance Matrix (EDM) for subsequent location estimation. In this paper, we address the problem of cooperative positioning in complex propagation environments, which results in an incomplete EDM. We proposed an improved EDM recovery algorithm based on low tank matrix completion (LRMC), which makes use of the sensor correlation by Laplacian and trace minimization. In addition, we derive a semi-definite relaxation estimator to localize the unknown sensors. Simulations are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm and the results show that the proposed method outperforms existing ones in both matrix completion and positioning accuracy.
{"title":"Cooperative Positioning of Wireless Networks in Complex Propagation Environments","authors":"Peiyue Jiang;Xiaobo Gu;Haibo Zhou","doi":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3414589","DOIUrl":"10.1109/JSAC.2024.3414589","url":null,"abstract":"Cooperative positioning in wireless networks has attracted great attention in recent years, as many applications require the exact location of all member nodes. The pairwise distance between the member nodes is conventionally constructed as an Euclidean Distance Matrix (EDM) for subsequent location estimation. In this paper, we address the problem of cooperative positioning in complex propagation environments, which results in an incomplete EDM. We proposed an improved EDM recovery algorithm based on low tank matrix completion (LRMC), which makes use of the sensor correlation by Laplacian and trace minimization. In addition, we derive a semi-definite relaxation estimator to localize the unknown sensors. Simulations are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm and the results show that the proposed method outperforms existing ones in both matrix completion and positioning accuracy.","PeriodicalId":73294,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal on selected areas in communications : a publication of the IEEE Communications Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141933170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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