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Fetal Arrhythmia Detection Based on Labeling Considering Heartbeat Interval

Nakatani S., Yamamoto K., Ohtsuki T.

Bioengineering （Bioengineering）  10 （ 1 ）  2023年01月

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Arrhythmia is one of the causes of sudden infant death, and it is very important to detect fetal arrhythmia for fetal well-being. Fetal electrocardiogram (FECG) is one of the methods to detect a heartbeat. Fetal arrhythmia can be detected based on the heartbeat detection results from FECG signals such as heartbeat intervals. However, the accuracy of arrhythmia detection easily degrades depending on the accuracy of heartbeat detection. In this paper, we propose a deep learning-based fetal arrhythmia detection method using FECG signals. Recently, arrhythmia detection methods using adult ECG signals have achieved a high arrhythmia detection accuracy based on deep learning. Motivated by this fact, in the proposed method, the acquired FECG signals are segmented, and the segments are input into a deep learning model that classifies them into normal or arrhythmia ones. Based on the classification results of multiple segments, a subject is judged as a healthy or arrhythmia subject. Each segment of the training data is divided into three categories based on the estimated heartbeat interval: (i) normal, (ii) arrhythmia, and (iii) a segment that could be both normal and arrhythmic. Only segments labeled as normal or arrhythmia are used for training a deep learning model to achieve a higher classification accuracy of the model. Through these procedures, the proposed method detects fetal arrhythmia with fewer effects of heartbeat detection results. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves 96.2% accuracy, 100% specificity, and 100% recall, improving the values of conventional methods based on heartbeat detection and feature detection.

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Unsupervised Learning-Based Non-Invasive Fetal ECG Muti-Level Signal Quality Assessment

Shi X., Yamamoto K., Ohtsuki T., Matsui Y., Owada K.

Bioengineering （Bioengineering）  10 （ 1 ）  2023年01月

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Objective: To monitor fetal health and growth, fetal heart rate is a critical indicator. The non-invasive fetal electrocardiogram is a widely employed measurement for fetal heart rate estimation, which is extracted from the electrodes placed on the surface of the maternal abdomen. The qualities of the fetal ECG recordings, however, are frequently affected by the noises from various interference sources. In general, the fetal heart rate estimates are unreliable when low-quality fetal ECG signals are used for fetal heart rate estimation, which makes accurate fetal heart rate estimation a challenging task. So, the signal quality assessment for the fetal ECG records is an essential step before fetal heart rate estimation. In other words, some low-quality fetal ECG signal segments are supposed to be detected and removed by utilizing signal quality assessment, so as to improve the accuracy of fetal heart rate estimation. A few supervised learning-based fetal ECG signal quality assessment approaches have been introduced and shown to accurately classify high- and low-quality fetal ECG signal segments, but large fetal ECG datasets with quality annotation are required in these methods. Yet, the labeled fetal ECG datasets are limited. Proposed methods: An unsupervised learning-based multi-level fetal ECG signal quality assessment approach is proposed in this paper for identifying three levels of fetal ECG signal quality. We extracted some features associated with signal quality, including entropy-based features, statistical features, and ECG signal quality indices. Additionally, an autoencoder-based feature is calculated, which is related to the reconstruction error of the spectrograms generated from fetal ECG signal segments. The high-, medium-, and low-quality fetal ECG signal segments are classified by inputting these features into a self-organizing map. Main results: The experimental results showed that our proposal achieved a weighted average F1-score of 90% in three-level fetal ECG signal quality classification. Moreover, with the acceptable removal of detected low-quality signal segments, the errors of fetal heart rate estimation were reduced to a certain extent.

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Heart action monitoring from pulse signals using a growing hybrid polynomial network

Wang L., Zhao C., Mathiopoulos P.T., Ohtsuki T.

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence （Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence）  117 2023年01月

ISSN  09521976

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Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a common used noninvasive test to quickly detect the heart problem with high precision. However, devices used to collect continuous ECG waveforms under free-living conditions have several operational difficulties. As an alternative, photoplethysmography (PPG) signals can be conveniently collected by pulse sensors, which can be mounted onto wearable devices. In this paper, we study the relation between ECG waveforms and PPG signals by proposing a novel growing hybrid polynomial network (GHPN)). Based on the projections between adjacent layers, the network is designed to approximate the target signals with the recorded inputs and the multi-scale dynamics of the input series are explored gradually through the growth of layers. Two public datasets are employed to evaluate the performance of the proposed approach on the accuracy of waveform reconstruction and heart rate (HR) detection with the widely used metrics. Compared with the reference ECG waveforms, the normalized mean square error (NMSE) of the proposed approach is 0.248 and 0.216 for PPG-Dalia and CapnoBase datasets, which is smaller than the comparison approaches. The average absolute value (AAE) between the detected HR and reference HR is 0.93 and 1.05 for PPG-Dalia and CapnoBase datasets, which exhibit higher HR detection accuracy. Experimental results obtained from benchmark datasets clearly show that the proposed method can achieve higher similarity on the reconstructed morphology with higher HR detection accuracy. Moreover, the proposed approach make it possible to employ PPG sensors for long-term monitoring of the heart actions with higher precision.

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Communication Efficient Heterogeneous Federated Learning based on Model Similarity

Li Z., Ohtsuki T., Gui G.

IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC （IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC）  2023-March 2023年

ISSN  15253511

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Federated Learning is now widely used to train neural networks under distributed datasets. One of the main challenges in Federated Learning is to address network training under local data heterogeneity. Existing work proposes that taking similarity into account as an influence factor in federated learning can improve the speed of model aggregation. We propose a novel approach that introduces Centered Kernel Alignment (CKA) into loss function to compute the similarity of feature maps in the output layer. Compared to existing methods, our method enables fast model aggregation and improves global model accuracy in non-IID scenario by using Resnet50.

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A Reinforcement Learning-Based Fire Warning and Suppression System Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Panahi F.H., Panahi F.H., Ohtsuki T.

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement （IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement）  72 2023年

ISSN  00189456

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This article discusses the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to detect, warn, and suppress forest fires. The proposed system consists of: 1) an energy harvesting-assisted surveillance UAV (SUAV) that detects and reports fires and 2) multiple ground-based firefighting UAVs (FUAVs) that travel to fire spots to suppress the fire. First, the SUAV carries out the forest fire detection using the onboard color and infrared cameras. The SUAV then uses fire alarm signals to warn/inform the ground-based FUAVs to begin the firefighting mission. The goal is to inform as many FUAVs as possible as the required task (extinguishing the fire) can be completed more effectively and faster with more FUAVs. To do this, the SUAV with onboard processing capabilities makes use of the advantages of reinforcement learning. In particular, we propose a double Q-learning-based trajectory design problem that enables the energy-constrained SUAV to find the optimal sequence of FUAVs to visit (optimal flying trajectory) in order to maximize the number of informed FUAVs while considering the limited execution time, as the crucial issue is to control fire from the beginning to prevent uncontrolled spread of fire.

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Evaluation of Source Data Selection for DTL Based CSI Feedback Method in FDD Massive MIMO Systems

Inoue M., Ohtsuki T., Yamamoto K., Gui G.

Proceedings - IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC （Proceedings - IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC）  2023-January   182 - 187 2023年

ISSN  23319860

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In frequency division duplexing (FDD) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), the downlink channel state information (CSI) feedback method based on deep transfer learning (DTL) has been proposed to obtain the downlink CSI at the Base Station (BS). In the CSI feedback method based on DTL, a target model for one channel environment is obtained by fine-tuning the parameters of a source model trained on a large number of the CSI dataset (source data) of another channel environment. The fine-tuning is done with a small number of the CSI dataset (target data) of the target channel environment. Thus, a target model can be obtained at a low learning cost. However, the performance of the target model could highly depend on the source data. In this paper, we investigate two metrics as criteria for selecting source data to obtain a target model with a high CSI reconstruction performance: (i) Jensen-Shannon Divergence (JSD), which represents the similarity between target and source data, and (ii) entropy, which represents the diversity of source data. The simulation results showed when the target channel model is non line-of-sight (NLOS), the source data with high entropy and low JSD tend to provide higher CSI reconstruction performance of the target model. These results indicate that the JSD and the entropy could be a source data selection metric.

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SAR Image Change Detection in Spatial-Frequency Domain Based on Attention Mechanism and Gated Linear Unit

Zhao C., Ma L., Wang L., Ohtsuki T., Mathiopoulos P.T., Wang Y.

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters （IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters）  20 2023年

ISSN  1545598X

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Change detection based on synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is an important application in the remote-sensing technology field. However, the lack of labeled data has been a difficult problem in SAR image detection, especially for pixel-level change detection. In this letter, we propose a novel unsupervised change detection algorithm, which improves the detection accuracy by exploring features from both spatial and frequency domains of SAR images. In particular, first clustering is used as preclassification to obtain pseudo-labels and then by incorporating classifiers and pseudo-labels in terms of feature learning, a novel unsupervised detection algorithm is proposed. To improve the sensitivity of the algorithm to changed details and enhance the antinoise ability of the change detection network, the attention mechanism (AM) is integrated into the network to fully extract important spatial structure information. Moreover, a multidomain fusion module is proposed to integrate spatial and frequency domain features into complementary feature representations. This module contains multiregion features weighted by the channel-spatial AM and deep features filtered out by the gated linear units (GLUs) in the frequency domain. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, it is compared against the other four SAR image change detection algorithms using three real datasets. The experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms the other four algorithms in terms of percent correct classification (PCC) and Kappa coefficient (KC).

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Multi-Person Position Estimation Based on Correlation between Received Signals Using MIMO FMCW Radar

Endo K., Ishikawa T., Yamamoto K., Ohtsuki T.

IEEE Access （IEEE Access）  11   2610 - 2620 2023年

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By using Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar, a range-Angle map can be obtained that displays the signal strength in two dimensions with respect to distance and angular directions. In this process, a threshold algorithm such as Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) is used to detect positions where the signal strength exceeds a certain threshold value, enabling position estimation of targets. Furthermore, a method has been proposed to use the curve length of the trajectory of the I/Q signal to emphasize the signal of the person's position on the range angle map. However, the conventional CFAR may cause false alarms when noise and clutter signals are strong. In this paper, we propose a new method for human location estimation using the MIMO FMCW radar. Comparing the reflected signals from people and clutter, we see that I/Q signal variations associated with human motion have little correlation with clutter from stationary objects or noise, and I/Q signal variations associated with clutter often have high correlation with signals at other positions. We focus on the fact that there are many positions where the clutter component signal has a high correlation, compared to the signal caused by a person. Using the correlation map that expresses the correlation between the received I/Q signals on the range-Angle plane, we evaluated the characteristics of noise and clutter components from walls on the correlation map by standard deviation. As a result, we can remove strong noise and clutter components caused from near walls, thus improving the accuracy of object location estimation.

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Max-Min Fair 3D Trajectory Design and Transmission Scheduling for Solar-Powered Fixed-Wing UAV-Assisted Data Collection

Sun C., Xiong X., Zhai Z., Ni W., Ohtsuki T., Wang X.

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications （IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications）  2023年

ISSN  15361276

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This paper presents a new three-dimensional (3D) trajectory design approach for a solar-powered, fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to harvest solar energy and collect data from multiple smart devices (SDs). The trajectory is optimized based on max-min fairness to balance the total amount of uploaded data and the fairness among the SDs. The key idea is that we develop non-trivial variable substitution and successive convex approximation (SCA) techniques to convexify data transmission, UAV energy consumption and mobility, and energy harvesting constraints under a persistent round-robin transmission schedule of the SDs. The resulting algorithm guarantees a locally optimal trajectory satisfying the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions. Another important aspect is that we further jointly optimize the transmission schedule along with the trajectory, and prove that absolute fairness in terms of uploaded data can be achieved among the SDs under the max-min fairness. The new algorithms apply to both line-of-sight (LoS)-dominant and probabilistic SD-UAV channels. Numerical results show that a 3D trajectory increases the uploaded data by 111%, compared to a two-dimensional (2D) trajectory. The proposed algorithms can balance the energy harvesting and data collection, and achieve fairness in both LoS-dominant and probabilistic SD-UAV channels.

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Investigation of Data Leakage in Deep Learning-based Blood Pressure Estimation using Photoplethysmogram/ Electrocardiogram

Yoshizawa R., Yamamoto K., Ohtsuki T.

IEEE Sensors Journal （IEEE Sensors Journal）  2023年

ISSN  1530437X

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Cuff-less blood pressure (BP) estimation methods using a deep learning model from photoplethysmogram (PPG) or electrocardiogram (ECG) have been actively studied in recent years. However, we found that most previous studies incur data leakage, where segments or records measured from the same subject appear in both the training and test datasets. Furthermore, many previous studies are suspected to have misinterpreted a record in the public dataset used for their evaluations as a subject. To investigate data leakage in BP estimation methods, this paper first organizes previous studies in terms of data leakage. We then quantitatively evaluate the effect of data leakage caused by the segment-level and the record-level train-test split using the public dataset, Cuff-Less Blood Pressure Estimation Data Set. Our experimental results showed that the segment-level split and record-level split erroneously improved the estimation accuracy of mean blood pressure from the (quasi-)subject-level split by the Pearson’s correlation coefficient of 0.56 and 0.40 when using PPG, and 0.82 and 0.69 when using ECG, respectively. These results confirmed that the train-test split used in many previous studies, including the one that described its evaluation as causing no data leakage, causes a high level of data leakage, and that a record in the Cuff-Less Blood Pressure Estimation Data Set, often misinterpreted as a subject in previous studies, is not a subject and that a high level of data leakage occurs when the record is considered as a subject.

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Intelligent Cellular Offloading with VLC-enabled Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Panahi F.H., Panahi F.H., Ohtsuki T.

IEEE Internet of Things Journal （IEEE Internet of Things Journal）  2023年

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This paper discusses a cellular network assisted by an energy-and spectral-efficient unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), in which the UAV is deployed to serve mobile users in the cellular network and enable mobile data offloading from a ground base station (GBS) by taking a circular flight route. We explore a visible light communication (VLC)-enabled UAV, in which a light-emitting diode (LED) is mounted on a rotary-wing UAV to offer communications to the users. Our aim is to simultaneously optimize both energy efficiency (EE) and spectral efficiency (SE) of the VLC-enabled UAV by jointly optimizing the common throughput of all users as well as the UAV’s trajectory and flying speed. We employ a unified metric, called resource efficiency (RE), and explore the RE optimization to obtain an adaptive EE-SE tradeoff. The problem posed is seen in a complex and non-convex shape, making it hard to solve. Motivated by the enormous achievement of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) in solving complex control problems, we propose a DRL-based approach to handle this non-convex and complicated optimization. The findings of the simulation reveal that the developed framework achieves a substantial performance in terms of the solution convergence as well as the promising quality of the solutions.

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Intelligent Cellular Offloading with VLC-enabled Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

F. H. Panahi, F. H. Panahi, and T. Ohtsuki

IEEE Internet of Things Journal 2023年

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Detecting Dementia from Face-Related Features with Automated Computational Methods," Bioengineering

C. Zheng, M. Bouazizi,T. Ohtsuki, M. Kitazawa, T. Horigome, and T. Kishimoto

Bioengineering 2023年

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Edge Device Identification Based on Federated Learning and Network Traffic Feature Engineering

He Z., Yin J., Wang Y., Gui G., Adebisi B., Ohtsuki T., Gacanin H., Sari H.

IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking （IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking）  8 （ 4 ） 1898 - 1909 2022年12月

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With the ubiquitous deployment and applications of Internet of Things (IoT), security issues pose a critical challenge to IoT devices. External attackers often utilize vulnerable IoT devices to invade the target's internal network and then further cause a security threat to the whole network. To prevent such attacks, it is necessary to develop a security mechanism to control the access of suspicious IoT devices and manage the internal devices. In recent years, deep learning (DL) algorithm has been widely used in the field of edge device identification (EDI), and has made great achievements. However, these previous methods are essentially centralized learning-based EDI (CentEDI) that trains all data together, which can not guarantee data security and not conducive to deployment on edge devices. To address this problem, we introduce a federated learning-based EDI (FedeEDI) method via network traffic to automatically identify edge devices connected to the whole network. Experimental results show that the training efficiency of our proposed FedeEDI method is much higher than that of the CentEDI method, although its classification accuracy is slightly reduced. In contrast to the CentEDI method, the proposed FedeEDI method has two main advantages: faster training speed and safer training process.

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Make Smart Decisions Faster: Deciding D2D Resource Allocation via Stackelberg Game Guided Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning

Shi D., Li L., Ohtsuki T., Pan M., Han Z., Poor H.V.

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing （IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing）  21 （ 12 ） 4426 - 4438 2022年12月

ISSN  15361233

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Device-to-Device (D2D) communication enabling direct data transmission between two mobile users has emerged as a vital component for 5G cellular networks to improve spectrum utilization and enhance system capacity. A critical issue for realizing these benefits in D2D-enabled networks is to properly allocate radio resources while coordinating the co-channel interference in a time-varying communication environment. In this paper, we propose a Stackelberg game (SG) guided multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL) approach, which allows D2D users to make smart power control and channel allocation decisions in a distributed manner. In particular, we define a crucial Stackelberg Q-value (ST-Q) to guide the learning direction, which can be calculated based on the equilibrium achieved in the Stackelberg game. With the guidance of the Stackelberg equilibrium, our approach converges faster with fewer iterations than the general MADRL method and thereby exhibits better performance in handling the network dynamics. After the initial training, each agent can infer timely D2D resource allocation strategies with distributed execution. Extensive simulations are conducted to validate the efficacy of our proposed scheme in developing timely resource allocation strategies. The results also show that our method outperforms the general MADRL based approach in terms of the average utility, channel capacity, and training time.

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A Denoising Method Using Deep Image Prior to Human-Target Detection Using MIMO FMCW Radar

Endo K., Yamamoto K., Ohtsuki T.

Sensors （Sensors）  22 （ 23 ）  2022年12月

ISSN  14248220

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A Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Frequency-Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar can provide a range-angle map that expresses the signal power against each range and angle. It is possible to estimate object locations by detecting the signal power that exceeds a threshold using an algorithm, such as Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR). However, noise and multipath components often exist over the range-angle map, which could produce false alarms for an undesired location depending on the threshold setting. In other words, the threshold setting is sensitive in noisy range-angle maps. Therefore, if the noise is reduced, the threshold can be easily set to reduce the number of false alarms. In this paper, we propose a method that improves the CFAR threshold tolerance by denoising a range-angle map using Deep Image Prior (DIP). DIP is an unsupervised deep-learning technique that enables image denoising. In the proposed method, DIP is applied to the range-angle map calculated by the Curve-Length (CL) method, and then the object location is detected over the denoised range-angle map based on Cell-Averaging CFAR (CA-CFAR), which is a typical threshold setting algorithm. Through the experiments to estimate human locations in indoor environments, we confirmed that the proposed method with DIP reduced the number of false alarms and estimated the human location accurately while improving the tolerance of the threshold setting, compared to the method without DIP.

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Constructing Mobile Crowdsourced COVID-19 Vulnerability Map With Geo-Indistinguishability

Chen R., Li L., Ma Y., Gong Y., Guo Y., Ohtsuki T., Pan M.

IEEE Internet of Things Journal （IEEE Internet of Things Journal）  9 （ 18 ） 17403 - 17416 2022年09月

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Preventing COVID-19 disease from spreading in communities will require proactive and effective healthcare resource allocations, such as vaccinations. A fine-grained COVID-19 vulnerability map will be essential to detect the high-risk communities and guild the effective vaccine policy. A mobile-crowdsourcing-based self-reporting approach is a promising solution. However, an accurate mobile-crowdsourcing-based map construction requests participants to report their actual locations, raising serious privacy concerns. To address this issue, we propose a novel approach to effectively construct a reliable community-level COVID-19 vulnerability map based on mobile crowdsourced COVID-19 self-reports without compromising participants' location privacy. We design a geo-perturbation scheme where participants can locally obfuscate their locations with the geo-indistinguishability guarantee to protect their location privacy against any adversaries' prior knowledge. To minimize the data utility loss caused by location perturbation, we first design an unbiased vulnerability estimator and formulate the location perturbation probability generation into a convex optimization. Its objective is to minimize the estimation error of the direct vulnerability estimator under the constraints of geo-indistinguishability. Given the perturbed locations, we integrate the perturbation probabilities with the spatial smoothing method to obtain reliable community-level vulnerability estimations that are robust to a small-sampling-size problem incurred by location perturbation. Considering the fast-spreading nature of coronavirus, we integrate the vulnerability estimates into the modified susceptible-infected-removed (SIR) model with vaccination for building a future trend map. It helps to provide a guideline for vaccine allocation when supply is limited. Extensive simulations based on real-world data demonstrate the proposed scheme superiority over the peer designs satisfying geo-indistinguishability in terms of estimation accuracy and reliability.

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Wi-Fi-Based Fall Detection Using Spectrogram Image of Channel State Information

Nakamura T., Bouazizi M., Yamamoto K., Ohtsuki T.

IEEE Internet of Things Journal （IEEE Internet of Things Journal）  9 （ 18 ） 17220 - 17234 2022年09月

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Wi-Fi channel state information (CSI)-based fall detection systems have a great potential compared with other alternatives since they are nonintrusive and nonspace limited. However, in the conventional work on Wi-Fi CSI-based fall detection, a phenomenon is commonly observed: the classification performance degrades when data in different environments are used for learning and testing. Nonetheless, when the signal-to-noise-power ratio (SNR) is small, the conventional methods cannot capture features of motion and cannot segment signals accurately. Therefore, there is a need to address these problems in order to build a robust fall detection system. In this article, we propose a spectrogram-image-based fall detection using Wi-Fi CSI. Unlike the conventional method, CSI is segmented with a certain sliding-time window, and then the classifier detects fall by using the spectrogram image generated from the segmented CSI. We use a pretrained convolutional neural network (CNN) optimized for binary classification of the spectrogram images of the fall and nonfall motions. We carried out experiments to evaluate the classification performance of our proposed method against the conventional one by using motion data in two different rooms for learning and testing. As a result, we confirmed that our proposed method outperforms the conventional one and reaches over 0.92 accuracy. In addition, compared with the conventional method, the fall detection performance of our method does not degrade even when using different environment data for learning and testing.

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Sub-GHz Two-Way Ranging Based on Phase Detection for Remote Keyless Entry Systems

Seto I., Otaka S., Yoshida H., Nonin K., Nishikawa M., Kato T., Nito Y., Ishiwata H., Otsuki T.

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology （IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology）  71 （ 9 ） 9705 - 9720 2022年09月

ISSN  00189545

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Remote keyless entry systems have penetrated the vehicular market due to its convenience. However, its vulnerability against relay attacks exploiting the wireless channel is a serious threat. One of the prominent countermeasures is radio ranging between the key fob and the vehicle. Taking into account radio regulations, usability and power consumption among other things, a suitable approach is necessary to devise. This article proposes sub-GHz two-way ranging based on phase detection which offers high tolerance against reference clock offset between a pair of transceiver devices and a novel compensation scheme against multipath effects. We present the operation principle and theoretical performance under a two-path model of radio propagation and additive white Gaussian noise. In field experiments with prototype devices, the ranging accuracy is validated. We show that the proposed ranging produces sufficient performance for remote keyless entry systems, confirming if the key fob is within a few meters of the vehicle.

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Inter-User Distance Estimation Based on a New Type of Fingerprint in Massive MIMO System for COVID-19 Contact Detection

Yang S., Bouazizi M., Cao Y., Ohtsuki T.

Sensors （Sensors）  22 （ 16 ）  2022年08月

ISSN  14248220

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In this paper, we address the challenging task of estimating the distance between different users in a Millimeter Wave (mmWave) massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (mMIMO) system. The conventional Time of Arrival (ToA) and Angle of Arrival (AoA) based methods need users under the Line-of-Sight (LoS) scenario. Under the Non-LoS (NLoS) scenario, the fingerprint-based method can extract the fingerprint that includes the location information of users from the channel state information (CSI). However, high accuracy CSI estimation involves a huge overhead and high computational complexity. Thus, we design a new type of fingerprint generated by beam sweeping. In other words, we do not have to know the CSI to generate fingerprint. In general, each user can record the Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) of the received beams by performing beam sweeping. Such measured RSSI values, formatted in a matrix, could be seen as beam energy image containing the angle and location information. However, we do not use the beam energy image as the fingerprint directly. Instead, we use the difference between two beam energy images as the fingerprint to train a Deep Neural Network (DNN) that learns the relationship between the fingerprints and the distance between these two users. Because the proposed fingerprint is rich in terms of the users’ location information, the DNN can easily learn the relationship between the difference between two beam energy images and the distance between those two users. We term it as the DNN-based inter-user distance (IUD) estimation method. Nonetheless, we investigate the possibility of using a super-resolution network to reduce the involved beam sweeping overhead. Using super-resolution to increase the resolution of low-resolution beam energy images obtained by the wide beam sweeping for IUD estimation can facilitate considerate improvement in accuracy performance. We evaluate the proposed DNN-based IUD estimation method by using original images of resolution 4 × 4, 8 × 8, and 16 × 16. Simulation results show that our method can achieve an average distance estimation error equal to 0.13 m for a coverage area of 60 × 30 m2. Moreover, our method outperforms the state-of-the-art IUD estimation methods that rely on users’ location information.

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