Collaborative Spectrum Monitoring

Datasets

ElectroSense provided access to large-scale spectrum datasets, including power spectral density (PSD) and I/Q data collected via distributed low-cost sensors. Users could download historical measurements or request data through the open API. Technology Classification Measurements

The full dataset of technology classification measurements as described in our Infocom '23 paper:

A Framework for Wireless Technology Classification using Crowd-sensing Platforms A. Scalingi, D. Giustiniano, R. Calvo, N. Apostolakis, G. Bovet The 18th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys), IEEE Infocom 2023, New York, USA, May 2023 URL

Open Source

The ElectroSense project published its hardware and software as open source. Designs for sensors and software components were made publicly available for collaboration and transparency.

Browse our repositories: ElectroSense on GitHub.

Publications

The ElectroSense team has produced several scientific papers describing the system architecture, signal processing methods, and big data analytics.

An extensive description of the ElectroSense project, its goals, technology and contribution to the scientific community can be found in our magazine article:

Electrosense: Open and Big Spectrum Data
S. Rajendran, R. Calvo-Palomino, M. Fuchs, B. Van den Bergh, H. Cordobés, D. Giustiniano, S. Pollin, V. Lenders
IEEE Communications Magazine, January 2018
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Citing ElectroSense

If you create a publication (including web pages, papers published by a third party, and publicly available presentations) using data from ElectroSense, you should cite the above magazine article.

Articles

Learning the unknown: Improving modulation classification performance in unseen scenarios
E. Perenda, S. Rajendran, G. Bovet, S. Pollin, M. Zheleva
IEEE INFOCOM 2021 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, 2021, pp. 1-10, May 2021 URL

Large Scale Collaborative Detection and Location of Threats in the Electromagnetic Space
D. Giustiniano, V. Lenders, S. Pollin
Book chapter in Palestini C. (eds) Advanced Technologies for Security Applications. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics, June 2020 URL

Large‐scale Wireless Spectrum Monitoring
S. Rajendran, S. Pollin
Book chapter in Spectrum Sharing (eds C.B. Papadias, T. Ratnarajah and D.T. Slock), April 2020 URL

SkySense: Terrestrial and Aerial Spectrum Use Analysed Using Lightweight Sensing Technology with Weather Balloons
B. Reynders, F. Minucci, E. Perenda, H. Sallouha, R. Calvo-Palomino, Y. Lizarribar, M. Fuchs, M. Schäfer, M. Engel, B. Van den Bergh, S. Pollin, D. Giustiniano, G. Bovet, V. Lenders
The 18th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys), 15-19 June 2020, Toronto, Canada URL

Electrosense+: Crowdsourcing Radio Spectrum Decoding using IoT Receivers
R. Calvo-Palomino, H. Cordobés de la Calle, M. Engel, M. Fuchs, P. Jain, M. Liechti, S. Rajendran, M. Schäfer, B. Van den Bergh, S. Pollin, D. Giustiniano, V. Lenders
Computer Networks, vol. 174, June 2020 URL

Crowdsourced wireless spectrum anomaly detection
S. Rajendran, V. Lenders, W. Meert, S. Pollin
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 694-703, June 2020 URL

Unsupervised Wireless Spectrum Anomaly Detection With Interpretable Features
S. Rajendran, W. Meert, V. Lenders, S. Pollin
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 637-647, September 2019 URL

Automatic Modulation Classification Using Parallel Fusion of Convolutional Neural Networks
E. Perenda, S. Rajendran, S. Pollin
Third International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking, 10-12 June 2019, Skopje, North Macedonia URL

Collaborative Wideband Signal Decoding using Non-coherent Receivers
R. Calvo-Palomino, H. Cordobes de la Calle, F. Ricciato, D. Giustiniano, V. Lenders
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2019), 14-16 April 2019, Montreal, Canada URL

SAIFE: Unsupervised Wireless Spectrum Anomaly Detection with Interpretable Features
S. Rajendran, W. Meert, V. Lenders, S. Pollin
IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN 2018), 22-25 October 2018, Seoul, South Korea URL

Deep Learning Models for Wireless Signal Classification with Distributed Low-Cost Spectrum Sensors
S. Rajendran, W. Meert, D. Giustiniano, V. Lenders, S. Pollin
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, 11 May 2018 URL

LTESS-track: A Precise and Fast Frequency Offset Estimation for Low-cost SDR Platforms
R. Calvo-Palomino, F. Ricciato, D. Giustiniano, V. Lenders
ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & Characterization (WINTECH), Oct 2017, Utah, USA URL

Measuring Spectrum Similarity in Distributed Radio Monitoring Systems
R. Calvo-Palomino, D. Giustiniano, V. Lenders
Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications (TIWDC 2017), 18-20 September 2017, Mondello (Palermo), Italy URL

Crowdsourcing Spectrum Data Decoding
R. Calvo-Palomino, D. Giustiniano, V. Lenders, A. Fakhreddine
IEEE INFOCOM 2017, 1-4 May 2017, Atlanta, GA, USA URL

A Software-defined Sensor Architecture for Large-scale Wideband Spectrum Monitoring
D. Pfammatter, D. Giustiniano, V. Lenders
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2015), 13-16 April 2015, Seattle, USA
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Demos

Electrosense - Spectrum Sensing with Increased Frequency Range (Demo)
F. Minucci, B. Van den Bergh, S. Rajendran, D. Giustiniano, H. Cordobés de la Calle, M. Fuchs, R. Calvo-Palomino, V. Lenders, S. Pollin
The 15th International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN 2018), 14-16 February 2018, Madrid, Spain
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Electrosense: Crowdsourcing Spectrum Monitoring (Demo)
B. Van den Bergh, D. Giustiniano, H. Cordobes de la Calle, M. Fuchs, R. Calvo-Palomino, S. Pollin, S. Rajendran, V. Lenders
IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN 2017), 6-9 March 2017, Baltimore, MD, USA
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A Low-cost Sensor Platform for Large-scale Wideband Spectrum Monitoring (Demo)
R. Calvo-Palomino, D. Pfammatter, D. Giustiniano, V. Lenders
ACM/IEEE IPSN 2015, 13-16 April 2015, Seattle, USA
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