TECHNOLOGY: JAVA
DOMAIN: Mobile Computing
| S. No. | IEEE TITLE | ABSTRACT | IEEE YEAR |
| 1 | Virtual Multipath Attack and Defense for Location Distinction in Wireless Networks
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In wireless networks, location distinction aims to detect location changes or facilitate authentication of wireless users. To achieve location distinction, recent research has focused on investigating the spatial uncorrelation property of wireless channels. Specifically, differences in wireless channel characteristics are used to distinguish locations or identify location changes. However, we discover a new attack against all existing location distinction approaches that are built on the spatial uncorrelation property of wireless channels. In such an attack, the adversary can easily hide her location changes or impersonate movements by injecting fake wireless channel characteristics into a target receiver. To defend against this attack, we propose a detection technique that utilizes an auxiliary receiver or antenna to identify these fake channel characteristics. We also discuss such attacks and corresponding defenses in OFDM systems. Experimental results on our USRP-based prototype show that the discovered attack can craft any desired channel characteristic with a successful probability of 95.0 percent to defeat spatial uncorrelation based location distinction schemes and our novel detection method achieves a detection rate higher than 91.2 percent while maintaining a very low false alarm rate. | 2017 |
| 2 | Design and Analysis of an Efficient Friend-to-Friend Content Dissemination System | Opportunistic communication, off-loading, and decentrlaized distribution have been proposed as a means of cost efficient disseminating content when users are geographically clustered into communities. Despite its promise, none of the proposed systems have not been widely adopted due to unbounded high content delivery latency, security, and privacy concerns. This paper, presents a novel hybrid content storage and distribution system addressing the trust and privacy concerns of users, lowering the cost of content distribution and storage, and shows how they can be combined uniquely to develop mobile social networking services. The system exploit the fact that users will trust their friends, and by replicating content on friends’ devices who are likely to consume that content it will be possible to disseminate it to other friends when connected to low cost networks. The paper provides a formal definition of this content replication problem, and show that it is NP hard. Then, it presents a community based greedy heuristic algorithm with novel dynamic centrality metrics that replicates the content on a minimum number of friends’ devices, to maximize availability. Then using both real world and synthetic datasets, the effectiveness of the proposed scheme is demonstrated. The practicality of the proposed system, is demonstrated through an implementation on Android smartphones. | 2017 |
| 3 | Cost-Effective Mapping between Wireless Body Area Networks and Cloud Service Providers Based on Multi-Stage Bargaining | This paper presents a bargaining-based resource allocation and price agreement in an environment of cloud-assisted Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). The challenge is to finalize a price agreement between the Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and the WBANs, followed by a cost-effective mapping among them. Existing solutions primarily focus on profits of the CSPs, while guaranteeing different user satisfaction levels. Such pricing schemes are bias prone, as quantifying user satisfaction is fuzzy in nature and hard to implement. Moreover, such an traditional approach may lead to an unregulated market, where few service providers enjoy the monopoly/oligopoly situation. However, in this work, we try to remove such biasness from the pricing agreements, and envision this challenge from a comparatively fair point of view. In order to do so, we use the concept of bargaining, an interesting approach involving cooperative game theory. We introduce an exposition – multi-stage Nash bargaining solution (MUST-NBS), that unfolds into multiple stages of bargaining, as the name suggests, until we conclude price agreement between the CSPs and the WBANs. In addition, the proposed approach also consummates the final mapping between the CSPs and the WBANs, depending on the cost-effectiveness of the WBANs. Analysis of the proposed algorithms and the inferences of the results validates the usefulness of the proposed mapping technique. | 2017 |
| 4 | Near Optimal Data Gathering in Rechargeable Sensor Networks with a Mobile Sink | We study data gathering problem in Rechargeable Sensor Networks (RSNs) with a mobile sink, where rechargeable sensors are deployed into a region of interest to monitor the environment and a mobile sink travels along a pre-defined path to collect data from sensors periodically. In such RSNs, the optimal data gathering is challenging because the required energy consumption for data transmission changes with the movement of the mobile sink and the available energy is time-varying. In this paper, we formulate data gathering problem as a network utility maximization problem, which aims at maximizing the total amount of data collected by the mobile sink while maintaining the fairness of network. Since the instantaneous optimal data gathering scheme changes with time, in order to obtain the globally optimal solution, we first transform the primal problem into an approximate network utility maximization
problem by shifting the energy consumption conservation and analyzing necessary conditions for the optimal solution. As a result, each sensor does not need to estimate the amount of harvested energy and the problem dimension is reduced. Then, we propose a Distributed Data Gathering Approach (DDGA), which can be operated distributively by sensors, to obtain the optimal data gathering scheme. Extensive simulations are performed to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm. |
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| 5 | Optimal Sleep-Wake Scheduling for Energy Harvesting Smart Mobile Devices | In this paper, we develop optimal sleep/wake scheduling algorithms for smart mobile devices that are powered by batteries and are capable of harvesting energy from the environment. Using a novel combination of the two-timescale Lyapunov optimization approach and weight perturbation, we first design the Optimal Sleep/wake scheduling Algorithm (OSA), which does not require any knowledge of the harvestable energy process. We prove that OSA is able to achieve any system performance that is within O(Î) of the optimal, and explicitly compute the required battery size, which is O(1/Î). We then extend our results to incorporate system information into algorithm design. Specifically, we develop the Information-aided OSA algorithm (IOSA) by introducing a novel drift augmenting idea in Lyapunov optimization. We show that IOSA is able to achieve the O(Î) close-to-optimal utility performance and ensures that the required traffic buffer and energy storage size are O(log (1/Î)2) with high probability. | 2017 |
| 6 | Two-Sided Matching Based Cooperative Spectrum Sharing | Dynamic spectrum access (DSA) can effectively improve the spectrum efficiency and alleviate the spectrumscarcity, by allowing unlicensed secondary users (SUs) to access the licensed spectrumof primary users (PUs) opportunistically. Cooperative spectrum sharing is a new promising paradigm to provide necessary incentives for both PUs and SUs in dynamic spectrum access. The key idea is that SUs relay the traffic of PUs in exchange for the access time on the PUs’ licensed spectrum. In this paper, we formulate the cooperative spectrum sharing between multiple PUs and multiple SUs as a two-sided market, and study the market equilibrium under both complete and incomplete information. First, we characterize the sufficient and necessary conditions for the market equilibrium. We analytically show that there may exist multiple market equilibria, among which there is always a unique Pareto-optimal equilibrium for Pus (called PU-Optimal-EQ), in which every PU achieves a utility no worse than in any other equilibrium. Then, we show that under complete information, the unique Pareto-optimal equilibrium PU-Optimal-EQ can always be achieved despite the competition among PUs; whereas, under incomplete information, the PU-Optimal-EQ may not be achieved due to the mis-representations of SUs (in reporting their private information). Regarding this, we further study the worse-case equilibrium for PUs, and characterize a Robust equilibrium for PUs (called PU-Robust-EQ), which provides every PU a guaranteed utility under all possible mis-representation behaviors of SUs. Numerical results show that in a typical network where the number of PUs and SUs are different, the performance gap between PU-Optimal-EQ and PU-Robust-EQ is quite small (e.g., less than 10 percent in the simulations). | 2017 |
| 7 | GDVAN: A New Greedy Behavior Attack Detection Algorithm for VANETs | Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs), whose main objective is to provide road safety and enhance the driving conditions, are exposed to several kinds of attacks such as Denial of Service (DoS) attacks which affect the availability of the underlying services for legitimate users. We focus especially on the greedy behavior which has been extensively addressed in the literature for Wireless LAN (WLAN) and for Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs). However, this attack has been much less studied in the context of VANETs. This is mainly because the detection of a greedy behavior is much more difficult for high mobility networks such as VANETs. In this paper, we propose a new detection approach called GDVAN (Greedy Detection for VANETs) for greedy behavior attacks in VANETs. The process to conduct the proposed method mainly consists of two phases, which are namely the suspicion phase and the decision phase. The suspicion phase is based on the linear regression mathematical concept while decision phase is based on a fuzzy logic decision scheme. The proposed algorithm not only detects the existence of a greedy behavior but also establishes a list of the potentially compromised nodes using three newly defined metrics. In addition to being passive, one of the major advantages of our technique is that it can be executed by any node of the network and does not require any modification of the IEEE 802.11p standard. Moreover, the practical effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed approach are corroborated through simulations and experiments. | 2017 |