Publications

Tiny-Twin: A CPU-Native Full-stack Digital Twin for NextG Cellular Networks

Ali Mamaghani, Ushasi Ghosh, Ish Kumar Jain, Vicram Rajagopalan, Srinivas Shakkottai, Dinesh Bharadia. "Tiny-Twin: A CPU-Native Full-stack Digital Twin for NextG Cellular Networks." In 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN)
IEEE DySPAN 2026 Project page Paper

Satellites are closer than you think: A near field MIMO approach for Ground stations

Rohith Reddy Vennam, Luke Wilson, Ish Kumar Jain, Dinesh Bharadia. "Satellites are Closer Than You Think: A Near-Field MIMO Approach for Ground Stations." In IEEE INFOCOM 2026-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, IEEE, 2026.
IEEE INFOCOM 2026 [Submitted: July 2025, Accepted: Dec 2025] Project page Paper GitHub

Log Pruning for Efficient Q&A in 5G Networks

Ali Mamaghani, Qingyuan Zheng, Ushasi Ghosh, Vicram Rajagopalan, Srinivas Shakkottai, Dinesh Bharadia. "Log Pruning for Efficient Q&A in 5G Networks." In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Open & AI RAN, ACM MobiCom 2025, Hong Kong, China, 2025.
ACM Open-AI RAN 2025 Workshop Project page Paper

TuneTag: Impedance-Matched RFID Tag for Long-Range and Reliable Battery-Free Sensing

I. Bansal, N. Bhat, H. Govindarajan, A. Gupta and D. Bharadia, "TuneTag: Impedance-Matched RFID Tag for Long-Range and Reliable Battery-Free Sensing", in IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification, doi: 10.1109/JRFID.2025.3614590.
IEEE Journal of RFID Project page Paper GitHub

C-Shenron: A Realistic Radar Simulator for End-to-End Autonomous Driving in CARLA

Satyam Srivastava, Jerry Li, Pushkal Mishra, Kshitiz Bansal, Dinesh Bharadia
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2025 Project page Paper GitHub

SenSync: Real-Time and Accurate Passive Sensing

I. Bansal, N. Bhat, A. Gupta, H. Govindarajan and D. Bharadia, "SenSync: Real-Time and Accurate Passive Sensing," 2025 IEEE International Conference on RFID (RFID), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2025, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/RFID64926.2025.11015540.
IEEE RFID 2025 Project page Paper GitHub

Demo - C-Shenron: Radar Simulation Framework for CARLA

Pushkal Mishra, Satyam Srivastava, Jerry Li, Kshitiz Bansal, Dinesh Bharadia
Demo at SenSys 2025 Project page Paper

CommRad: Context-Aware Sensing-Driven Millimeter-Wave Networks

Ish Kumar Jain, Suriyaa MM, and Dinesh Bharadia
Sensys 2024 Project page Paper

ZenseTag: An RFID assisted Twin-Tag Single Antenna COTS Sensor Interface

Nagarjun Bhat, Agrim Gupta, Ishan Bansal, Harine Govindarajan, and Dinesh Bharadia. 2024. ZenseTag: An RFID assisted Twin-Tag Single Antenna COTS Sensor Interface. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 336–350.
ACM SenSys2024 Project page Paper

SPARC: Spatio-Temporal Adaptive Resource Control for Multi-site Spectrum Management in NextG Cellular Networks

Ushasi Ghosh, Azuka Chiejina, Nathan Stephenson, Vijay Shah, Srinivas Shakkottai, Dinesh Bharadia
CoNEXT 2024

Windex: Realtime Neural Whittle Indexing for Scalable Service Guarantees in NextG Cellular Networks

Archana Bura, Ushasi Ghosh, Srinivas Shakkottai, Dinesh Bharadia
Mobicom Demo 2024 Paper

mmSubArray: Enabling Joint Satellite-Terrestrial Networks in Millimeter-wave Band

Vennam, Rohith Reddy, et al. "mmSubArray: Enabling Joint Satellite and 5G Networks With Full-Spectrum Utilization in Millimeter-Wave Bands." (2024).
Small Satellite Conference 2024 Project page Paper GitHub

WAIS: Leveraging WiFi for Resource-Efficient SLAM

Aditya Arun, William Hunter, Roshan Ayyalasomayajula, Dinesh Bharadia
Mobisys 2024 Project page Paper

RFSynth: Data generation and testing platform for spectrum information systems

Sankar, H. P., Subbaraman, R., Hu, T., & Bharadia, D. (2024). RFSynth: Data generation and testing platform for spectrum information systems. In 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (IEEE DySPAN 24).
IEEE DySPAN 2024 Project page Paper GitHub

Blind Signal Characterization: Transformers, Triplet Losses and Beyond

Rajagopal, S., Mathuria, R., & Bharadia, D. (2024). Blind Signal Characterization: Transformers, Triplet Losses and Beyond. In IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (IEEE DySPAN 24).
IEEE DySPAN 2024 Project page Paper

Fourier Meets Gardner : Robust Blind Waveform Characterization

Mathuria, R., Rajagopal, S., & Bharadia, D. (2024). Fourier Meets Gardner: Robust Blind Waveform Characterization. In IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (IEEE DySPAN 24).
IEEE DySPAN 2024 Project page Paper

EdgeRIC: Empowering Real-time Intelligent Optimization and Control in NextG Networks

Woo Hyun Ko, Ushasi Ghosh, Ujwal Dinesha, Raini Wu, Srinivas Shakkottai, Dinesh Bharadia
NSDI 2024 Project page Paper GitHub

BeamArmor: Seamless Anti-Jamming in 5G Cellular Networks with MIMO Null-steering

Frederik Zumegen, Ish Kumar Jain, and Dinesh Bharadia
Hotmobile 2024 [Live Demo at Milcom'23 and Hotmobile'24] Project page Paper GitHub

SHENRON - Scalable, High Fidelity and EfficieNt Radar SimulatiON

Kshitiz Bansal, Gautham Reddy, Dinesh Bharadia
RAL 2023 Project page Paper GitHub

XRLoc: Accurate UWB Localization to Realize XR Deployments

Aditya Arun*, Shunsuke Saruwatari*, Sureel Shah, Dinesh Bharadia
Sensys 2023 Project page Paper GitHub

Practical Obfuscation of BLE Physical-Layer Fingerprints on Mobile Devices

Hadi Givehchian, Nishant Bhaskar, Alexander Redding, Han Zhao, Aaron Schulman, Dinesh Bharadia
IEEE S&P 2024 Project page Paper

Crescendo: Towards Wideband, Real-Time, High-Fidelity Spectrum Sensing Systems

Subbaraman, Raghav, Kevin Mills, Aaron Schulman, and Dinesh Bharadia. "Crescendo: Towards Wideband, Real-Time, High-Fidelity Spectrum Sensing Systems." In Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, pp. 1-14. 2023.
MobiCom 2023 Project page Paper GitHub

ForceSticker: Wireless, Batteryless, Thin & Flexible Force Sensors

Gupta, Agrim, et al. "ForceSticker: Wireless, Batteryless, Thin & Flexible Force Sensors." Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies 7.1 (2023): 1-32.
ACM IMWUT Vol. 7, No. 1, Article 13/ Ubicomp'23 Project page Paper

mmSpoof: Spoofing Attacks on Automotive FMCW Radars using Millimeter-wave Reflect Array

Vennam, R.R., Jain, I.K., Bansal, K., Orozco, J., Shukla, P., Ranganathan, A. and Bharadia, D., 2023, May. mmSpoof: Resilient Spoofing of Automotive Millimeter-wave Radars using Reflect Array. In 2023 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP) (pp. 1807-1821). IEEE.
IEEE S&P 2023 Project page Paper

WiROS: WiFi sensing toolbox for robotics

William Hunter*, Aditya Arun*, Dinesh Bharadia
IPSN Demo 2023 Project page Paper GitHub

Users are Closer than they Appear: Protecting User’s Location from WiFi APs

Roshan Ayyalasomayajula, Wei Sun, Aditya Arun, Dinesh Bharadia
HotMobile 2023 Paper

An LTE-Harvesting BLE-to-WiFi Backscattering Chip for Single-Device RFID-Like Interrogation

Shihkai Kuo, Manideep Dunna, Patrick P. Mercier, Dinesh Bharadia
ISSCC 2023 Paper

mmFlexible: Flexible Directional Frequency Multiplexing for Multi-user mmWave Networks

Ish Kumar Jain, Rohith Reddy Vennam, Raghav Subbaraman, and Dinesh Bharadia
Infocom 2023 [Submitted: July 2022, Accepted: Dec 2022, Presented: May 2023] Project page Paper GitHub

Delay Phased Array Project- mmFlexible [Infocom 2023], FlexLink [Mobihoc 2025]

Ish Kumar Jain, Rohith Reddy Vennam, Raghav Subbaraman, and Dinesh Bharadia
Infocom 2023 [Submitted: July 2022, Accepted: Dec 2022, Presented: May 2023], Mobihoc 2025 Project page Paper GitHub

High Resolution Spectral Analysis and Signal Segregation Using the Polyphase Channelizer

Richard Bell, Radhika Mathuria, Fred Harris, Peter Gerstoft, Dinesh Bharadia
2022 56th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers Project page Paper

VRProj: Delivering 360-degree Video With Viewport-Adaptive Truncation

Tian Qiu, Ish Kumar Jain, Raini Wu, Dinesh Bharadia, Pamela Cosman
WPMC 2022 Paper

Protecting Bluetooth User Privacy Through Obfuscation of Carrier Frequency Offset

Ali Nikoofard, Hadi Givehchian, Nishant Bhaskar, Aaron Schulman, Dinesh Bharadia, Patrick P. Mercier
IEEE TCAS II 2023 Paper

BSMA: scalable LoRa networks using full duplex gateways

Subbaraman, Raghav, Yeswanth Guntupalli, Shruti Jain, Rohit Kumar, Krishna Chintalapudi, and Dinesh Bharadia. "BSMA: scalable LoRa networks using full duplex gateways." In Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking, pp. 676-689. 2022.
MobiCom 2022 Project page Paper GitHub

Evaluating Physical-Layer BLE Location Tracking Attacks on Mobile Devices

Hadi Givehchian, Nishant Bhaskar, Eliana Rodriguez Herrera, Héctor Rodrigo López Soto, Christian Dameff, Dinesh Bharadia, Aaron Schulman
IEEE S&P 2022 Project page Paper

A WiFi and Bluetooth Backscattering Combo Chip Featuring Beam Steering via a Fully-Reflective Phased-Controlled Multi-Antenna Termination Technique Enabling Operation Over 56 Meters

Shihkai Kuo, Manideep Dunna, Patrick P. Mercier, Dinesh Bharadia
ISSCC 2022 Paper

P2SLAM: Bearing based WiFi SLAM for Indoor Robots

Aditya Arun, Roshan Ayyalasomayajula, William Hunter, Dinesh Bharadia
IEEE Robotics and Automation 2022 Project page Paper

Evaluating Physical-Layer BLE Location Tracking Attacks on Mobile Devices

H Givehchian, N Bhaskar, ER Herrera, HRL Soto, C Dameff, D Bharadia, A Schulman
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2022 -- Acceptance rate 14.7% (36 papers accepted out of 244 submitted) my group Project page

ZLeaks: Passive Inference Attacks on Zigbee based Smart Homes

N Shafqat, DJ Dubois, D Choffnes, A Schulman, D Bharadia, A Raghunathan,
ACM/IEEE ANCS 2021 Project page

ULoc: Low-Power, Scalable and cm-Accurate UWB-Tag Localization and Tracking for Indoor Applications

M Zhao, T Chang, A Arun, R Ayyalasomayajula, C Zhang, D Bharadia,
ACM UbiComp 2021 (Acceptance rate of close to 15%) Project page Paper

SSLIDE: Sound Source Localization for Indoors Based on Deep Learning

Y Wu, R Ayyalasomayajula, MJ Bianco, D Bharadia, P Gerstoft,
ICASSP 2021-- IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Project page Paper

WiForce: Wireless Sensing and Localization of Contact Forces on a Space Continuum.

A Gupta, C Girerd, M Dunna, Q Zhang, R Subbaraman, T Morimoto, D Bharadia,
NSDI 2021 (Acceptance rate 15% -- 40 papers accepted out of 255 submitted) Project page Paper

SyncScatter: Enabling WiFi like synchronization and range for WiFi backscatter Communication.

M Dunna, M Meng, PH Wang, C Zhang, PP Mercier, D Bharadia,
NSDI 2021 (Acceptance rate 15% -- 40 papers accepted out of 255 submitted) Project page Paper

Two beams are better than one: towards reliable and high throughput mmWave links

IK Jain, R Subbaraman, D Bharadia,
ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Project page Paper

Towards a wireless force sensor based on wave backscattering for medical applications

C Girerd, Q Zhang, A Gupta, M Dunna, D Bharadia, TK Morimoto
IEEE Sensors Journal Project page Paper

Sampling Training Data for Continual Learning Between Robots and the Cloud

S Chinchali, E Pergament, M Nakanoya, E Cidon, E Zhang, D Bharadia, M Pavone, S Katti,
ISER 2020 -- Experimental Robotics Project page Paper

Pointillism: accurate 3D bounding box estimation with multi-radars

K Bansal, K Rungta, S Zhu, D Bharadia
Sensys 2020 -- Acceptance rate 20% (43 papers accepted out of 213 submitted) Project page Paper

2 cites: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs\&hl=en\&cites=3637153603386786697

HarvestNet: Mining Valuable Training Data from High-Volume Robot Sensory Streams

S Chinchali, E Pergament, M Nakanoya, E Cidon, E Zhang, D Bharadia, M Pavone, S Katti,
ISER 2020 Project page Paper

DroneScale: drone load estimation via remote passive RF sensing

Phuc Nguyen, Vimal Kakaraparthi, Nam Bui, Nikshep Umamahesh, Nhat Pham, Hoang Truong, Yeswanth Guddeti, Dinesh Bharadia, Richard Han, Eric Frew, Daniel Massey, Tam Vu,
Sensys 2020 -- Acceptance rate 20% (43 papers accepted out of 213 submitted Project page

1 cites: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs\&hl=en\&cites=12285452767937590149

ScatterMIMO: Enabling virtual MIMO with smart surfaces

M Dunna, C Zhang, D Sievenpiper, D Bharadia
ACM Mobicom 2020 -- Acceptance rate 16% (62 papers accepted out of 384 submitted) Project page

27 cites: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs\&hl=en\&cites=9406824394284923402

Deep learning based wireless localization for indoor navigation

R Ayyalasomayajula, A Arun, C Wu, S Sharma, AR Sethi, D Vasisht, D Bharadia,
ACM Mobicom 2020 -- Acceptance rate 16% (62 papers accepted out of 384 submitted) Project page

25 cites: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs\&hl=en\&cites=34378211762698709

A low-power backscatter modulation system communicating across tens of meters with standards-compliant wi-fi transceivers

PHP Wang, C Zhang, H Yang, M Dunna, D Bharadia, PP Mercier,
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (ISSCC 2020) Project page

2 cites: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs\&hl=en\&cites=11843764222899462876

\(S^3\) Net: Semantic-Aware Self-supervised Depth Estimation with Monocular Videos and Synthetic Data

B Cheng, IS Saggu, R Shah, G Bansal, D Bharadia,
European Conference on Computer Vision (acceptance rate 26%) Project page

6 cites: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs\&hl=en\&cites=2729708241956805516

LocAP: Autonomous Millimeter Accurate Mapping of WiFi Infrastructure

Roshan Ayyalasomayajula, Aditya Arun, Chenfeng Wu, Shrivatsan Rajagopalan, Ish Jain, Dinesh Bharadia,
NSDI 2020 -- Acceptance rate 17.5% (48 papers accepted out of 275 submitted) Project page

7 cites: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs\&hl=en\&cites=966029656364373257

Sparsdr: Sparsity-proportional backhaul and compute for sdrs

M Khazraee, Y Guddeti, S Crow, AC Snoeren, K Levchenko, D Bharadia, A Schulman,
ACM Mobisys 2019 -- Acceptance rate 22 (39 papers accepted out of 172 submitted) Project page

5 cites: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs\&hl=en\&cites=17100681048462830739

Signet: Semantic instance aided unsupervised 3d geometry perception

Y Meng, Y Lu, A Raj, S Sunarjo, R Guo, T Javidi, G Bansal, D Bharadia,
IEEE/CVF CVPR 2019 Project page

26 cites: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs\&hl=en\&cites=9357944003335228407

Capttery: Scalable battery-like room-level wireless power

C Zhang, S Kumar, D Bharadia,
ACM Mobisys 2019 -- Acceptance rate 22 (39 papers accepted out of 172 submitted) Project page

4 cites: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs\&hl=en\&cites=16351981963794167443

Sweepsense: Sensing 5 ghz in 5 milliseconds with low-cost radios

Y Guddeti, R Subbaraman, M Khazraee, A Schulman, D Bharadia,
NSDI 2020 -- Acceptance rate 12.5% (30 papers accepted out of 240 submitted) Project page

10 cites: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs\&hl=en\&cites=14234708084808496076

BLoc: CSI-based accurate localization for BLE tags

R Ayyalasomayajula, D Vasisht, D Bharadia,
ACM CoNEXT 2018 -- Acceptance rate 17.2% (32 papers accepted out of 185 submitted) Project page

32 cites: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs\&hl=en\&cites=2387300467601962233

Freerider: Backscatter communication using commodity radios

P Zhang, C Josephson, D Bharadia, S Katti,
ACM CoNEXT 2017 -- Acceptance rate 18.3% (41 papers accepted out of 223 submitted) Project page

73 cites: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs\&hl=en\&cites=2207608068708370638

Enabling high-quality untethered virtual reality

O Abari, D Bharadia, A Duffield, D Katabi,
NSDI 2017 -- Acceptance rate 18% (46 papers accepted out of 255 submitted) Project page

126 cites: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs\&hl=en\&cites=5103195521437052288

Hitchhike: Practical backscatter using commodity wifi

P Zhang, D Bharadia, K Joshi, S Katti
ACM SENSYS 2016 -- (Best paper award nominee) Project page

165 cites: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs\&hl=en\&cites=3231133807055811837

Numfabric: Fast and flexible bandwidth allocation in datacenters

K Nagaraj, D Bharadia, H Mao, S Chinchali, M Alizadeh, S Katti,
ACM SIGCOMM 2016 Project page

81 cites: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs\&hl=en\&cites=12638641209357825109

Spotfi: Decimeter level localization using wifi

M Kotaru, K Joshi, D Bharadia, S Katti
ACM SIGCOMM 2015 Project page Paper

935 cites: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs\&hl=en\&cites=11027465511092921527

Backfi: High throughput wifi backscatter

D Bharadia, KR Joshi, M Kotaru, S Katti,
ACM SIGCOMM 2015 Project page Paper

359 cites: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs\&hl=en\&cites=9368376063280010959

Wideo: Fine-grained device-free motion tracing using RF backscatter

K Joshi, D Bharadia, M Kotaru, S Katti,
12th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation Project page Paper

152 cites: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs\&hl=en\&cites=16800494916549127560

Fastforward: Fast and constructive full duplex relays

D Bharadia, S Katti,
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review Project page Paper

96 cites: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs\&hl=en\&cites=1285871949197835477

Full duplex MIMO radios

D Bharadia, S Katti,
11th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation Project page Paper

419 cites: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs\&hl=en\&cites=7009557832919391403

Full duplex radios

D Bharadia, E McMilin, S Katti,
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2013 conference on SIGCOMM Project page Paper

2112 cites: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs\&hl=en\&cites=12399399471434081038

QualComp: a new lossy compressor for quality scores based on rate distortion theory

I Ochoa, H Asnani, D Bharadia, M Chowdhury, T Weissman, G Yona,
BMC bioinformatics 2013 Project page

58 cites: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs\&hl=en\&cites=7038725991341840687

Practical, real-time, full duplex wireless

M Jain, JI Choi, T Kim, D Bharadia, S Seth, K Srinivasan, P Levis, S Katti, P Sinha,
Mobicom 2011 Project page

1654 cites: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs\&hl=en\&cites=6988250277139539361

Relay and power allocation schemes for OFDM-based cognitive radio systems

D Bharadia, G Bansal, P Kaligineedi, VK Bhargava,
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications Project page

81 cites: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs\&hl=en\&cites=17628760006216262567