Demo Abstract: BLE Location-based Services via WiFi

Ruofeng Liu; Zhimeng Yin; Wenchao Jiang; Tian He

doi:10.1145/3485730.3492891

Demo Abstract: BLE Location-based Services via WiFi

Ruofeng Liu, Zhimeng Yin, Wenchao Jiang, Tian He

Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

The large-scale Bluetooth low energy (BLE) location-based services (LBS) are challenging due to the requirement of additional Bluetooth beacons, which inevitably incur tremendous hardware and maintenance cost. To alleviate this issue, this work presents WiBeacon which repurposes ubiquitously deployed WiFi access points into virtual beacons via cross-technology communication (CTC). WiBeacon only requires moderate software updates in APs, thus enabling fast deployment with zero additional hardware and also low maintenance cost via the remote Internet access.
We implement it on COTS WiFi APs and evaluate it in various scenarios including a real-world commercial BLE LBS application as the pilot study. During this two-week pilot study, our WiBeacon provides reliable LBS, e.g., as robust as conventional BLE beacons, for 512 users with 150 types of smartphones. The full paper of this work [2] was published in MobiCom 2021.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	SenSys '21
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 2021 The 19th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	353-354
ISBN (Print)	9781450390972
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3485730.3492891
Publication status	Published - Nov 2021
Event	19th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2021) - Convento de São Francisco, Coimbra, Portugal Duration: 15 Nov 2021 → 17 Nov 2021 https://sensys.acm.org/2021/venue/

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Name	SenSys - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

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Conference	19th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2021)
Place	Portugal
City	Coimbra
Period	15/11/21 → 17/11/21
Internet address	https://sensys.acm.org/2021/venue/

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Research Keywords

BLE
Cross-technology communication
LBS
Wi-Fi

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Liu, R., Yin, Z., Jiang, W., & He, T. (2021). Demo Abstract: BLE Location-based Services via WiFi. In SenSys '21: Proceedings of the 2021 The 19th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (pp. 353-354). (SenSys - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3485730.3492891

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Liu, R, Yin, Z, Jiang, W & He, T 2021, Demo Abstract: BLE Location-based Services via WiFi. in SenSys '21: Proceedings of the 2021 The 19th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. SenSys - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, pp. 353-354, 19th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2021), Coimbra, Portugal, 15/11/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3485730.3492891

Demo Abstract: BLE Location-based Services via WiFi. / Liu, Ruofeng; Yin, Zhimeng; Jiang, Wenchao et al.
SenSys '21: Proceedings of the 2021 The 19th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. p. 353-354 (SenSys - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems).

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Liu R, Yin Z, Jiang W, He T. Demo Abstract: BLE Location-based Services via WiFi. In SenSys '21: Proceedings of the 2021 The 19th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. 2021. p. 353-354. (SenSys - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems). Epub 2021 Nov 15. doi: 10.1145/3485730.3492891

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