TY - GEN
T1 - Ripple
T2 - 12th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2015
AU - Roy, Nirupam
AU - Gowda, Mahanth
AU - Choudhury, Romit Roy
N1 - Funding Information:
We sincerely thank our shepherd Dr. Srinivasan Seshan and the anonymous reviewers for their valuable feedback. We are grateful to NSF for partially funding this research through grants CNS-1441638 and CNS-1430033. %blankline%
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This paper investigates the possibility of communicating through vibrations. By modulating the vibration motors available in all mobile phones, and decoding them through accelerometers, we aim to communicate small packets of information. Of course, this will not match the bit rates available through RF modalities, such as NFC or Bluetooth, which utilize a much larger bandwidth. However, where security is vital, vibratory communication may offer advantages. We develop Ripple, a system that achieves up to 200 bits/s of secure transmission using off-the-shelf vibration motor chips, and 80 bits/s on Android smartphones. This is an outcome of designing and integrating a range of techniques, including multicarrier modulation, orthogonal vibration division, vibration braking, side-channel jamming, etc. Not all these techniques are novel; some are borrowed and suitably modified for our purposes, while others are unique to this relatively new platform of vibratory communication.
AB - This paper investigates the possibility of communicating through vibrations. By modulating the vibration motors available in all mobile phones, and decoding them through accelerometers, we aim to communicate small packets of information. Of course, this will not match the bit rates available through RF modalities, such as NFC or Bluetooth, which utilize a much larger bandwidth. However, where security is vital, vibratory communication may offer advantages. We develop Ripple, a system that achieves up to 200 bits/s of secure transmission using off-the-shelf vibration motor chips, and 80 bits/s on Android smartphones. This is an outcome of designing and integrating a range of techniques, including multicarrier modulation, orthogonal vibration division, vibration braking, side-channel jamming, etc. Not all these techniques are novel; some are borrowed and suitably modified for our purposes, while others are unique to this relatively new platform of vibratory communication.
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M3 - Conference contribution
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T3 - Proceedings of the 12th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2015
SP - 265
EP - 278
BT - Proceedings of the 12th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2015
PB - USENIX
Y2 - 4 May 2015 through 6 May 2015
ER -