Contact Tracing is considered as the first and the most effective step towards containing an
outbreak, as resources for mass testing and large quantity of vaccines are highly unlikely …

Contact tracing can be defined as the identification and the monitoring of each person who
has been in contact with an infected person. However, the effectiveness of manual contact …

Smartphone-based contact-tracing apps are a promising solution to help scale up the
conventional contact-tracing process. However, low adoption rates have become a major …

With rising demand for indoor location-based services (LBS) such as location-based
marketing, mobile navigation, etc., there has been considerable interest in indoor …

Many proximity-based tracing (PCT) protocols have been proposed and deployed to combat
the spreading of COVID-19. In this article, we take a systematic approach to analyze PCT …

Covid-19 is primarily spread through contact with the virus, which may survive on surfaces
with a lifespan of hours or even days if not sanitized. To curb its spread, it is hence of vital …

The goal of contact tracing is to keep track of contact between individuals in order to inform
persons who have been exposed to a risk of infection. Performing contact tracing with the …

Contact tracing is widely considered as an effective procedure in the fight against epidemic
diseases. However, one of the challenges for technology based contact tracing is the high …

Future social networks will rely heavily on sensing data collected from users' mobile and
wearable devices. A crucial component of such sensing will be the full or partial access to …

Bluetooth Low Energy advertisements are increasingly used for proximity privacy-preserving
protocols. We investigate information leakage from BLE advertisements. Our analysis …