@article{an2025radiotwin,volume={},pages={},title={RadioTwin: A Digital Building Material Twin for Wideband, Cross-link, Cross-band Wireless Channel Prediction},author={An, Zhenlin and Shangguan, Longfei and Kaewell, John and Pietraski, Philip and Jamieson, Kyle},journal={IEEE DySPAN},year={2025},publisher={IEEE}}
IEEE RAL
MetaSonic: Advancing Robot Localization with Directional Embedded Acoustic Signals
@article{wang2025metasonic,volume={},pages={},title={MetaSonic: Advancing Robot Localization with Directional Embedded Acoustic Signals},author={Wang, Junling and An, Zhenlin and Guo, Yi},journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},year={2025},publisher={IEEE}}
@inproceedings{tong2025commercial,title={Commercial RFIDs as Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces},author={Tong, Jingyu and Zhao, Xiaopeng and Dai, Donghui and An, Zhenlin and Yang, Lei},booktitle={IEEE INFOCOM},year={2025},organization={IEEE}}
@inproceedings{yang2025rfnoid,title={RFnoID: Protecting RFID Motion Privacy via Metasurface},author={Yang, Yanni and Shi, Zheng and An, Zhenlin and Pan, Runyu and Bu, Yanling and Zhang, Guoming and Hu, Pengfei and Cao, Jiannong},booktitle={IEEE INFOCOM},year={2025},organization={IEEE}}
@article{yang2024romeo,volume={},pages={},title={Romeo: Fault Detection of Rotating Machinery Via Fine-Grained Mmwave Velocity Signature},author={Yang, Yanni and Hu, Pengfei and Luo, Jun and An, Zhenlin and Cao, Jiannong and Yu, Dongxiao and Cheng, Xiuzhen},journal={IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing},year={2024},publisher={IEEE}}
Mobihoc
In-Sensor Machine Learning: Radio Frequency Neural Networks for Wireless Sensing
@inproceedings{tong2024insensor,title={In-Sensor Machine Learning: Radio Frequency Neural Networks for Wireless Sensing},author={Tong, Jingyu and An, Zhenlin and Zhao, Xiaopeng and Liao, Sicong and Yang, Lei},booktitle={Proceedings of the ACM Mobihoc},year={2024},organization={ACM}}
IEEE IOTJ
Pushing the Boundaries of High-Precision AoA Estimation with Enhanced Phase Estimation Protocol
@article{zhao2024pushing,title={Pushing the Boundaries of High-Precision AoA Estimation with Enhanced Phase Estimation Protocol},author={Zhao, Xiaopeng and Wang, Guosheng and An, Zhenlin and Pan, Qingrui and Lin, Qiongzheng and Yang, Lei},journal={IEEE Internet of Things Journal},volume={},pages={},year={2024},publisher={IEEE},}
@inproceedings{zhao2024understanding,title={Understanding Localization by a Tailored GPT},author={Zhao, Xiaopeng and Wang, Guosheng and An, Zhenlin and Pan, Qingrui and Yang, Lei},booktitle={Proceedings of the ACM MobiSys},year={2024},organization={ACM}}
NSDI
RFID+: Spatially Controllable Identification of UHF RFIDs via Controlled Magnetic Fields
@inproceedings{dai2024enabling,title={RFID+: Spatially Controllable Identification of UHF RFIDs via Controlled Magnetic Fields},author={Dai, Donghui and An, Zhenlin and Zheng, Gong and Pan, Qingrui and Yang, Lei},booktitle={Proceedings of the USENIX NSDI, 2024},year={2024},organization={USENIX}}
@inproceedings{gong2024enabling,title={Enabling Cross-Medium Wireless Networks with Miniature Mechanical Antennas},author={Gong, Zheng and An, Zhenlin and Dai, Donghui and Tong, Jingyu and Long, Shuijie and Yang, Lei},booktitle={Proceedings of the ACM MOBICOM},year={2024},organization={ACM}}
@inproceedings{yang2024binary,title={Binary Optical Machine Learning: Million-Scale Physical Neural Networks with Nano Neurons},author={Yang, Xueyuan and An, Zhenlin and Pan, Qingrui and Yang, Lei and Lei, Dangyuan and Fan, Yulong},booktitle={Proceedings of the ACM MOBICOM},year={2024},organization={ACM}}
@inproceedings{yang2024rfparrot,title={RF-Parrot: Wireless Eavesdropping on Wired Audio},author={Yang, Yanni and Wang, Genglin and An, Zhenlin and Hu, Pengfei and Cheng, Xiuzhen and Zhang, Guoming},booktitle={IEEE INFOCOM 2024},year={2024},organization={IEEE}}
2023
Sensys
XiTuXi: Sealing the Gaps in Cross-Technology Communication by Neural Machine Translation
@inproceedings{liao2023xituxi,title={XiTuXi: Sealing the Gaps in Cross-Technology Communication by Neural Machine Translation},author={Liao, Sicong and An, Zhenlin and Pan, Qingrui and Zhao, Xiaopeng and Tong, Jingyu and Yang, Lei},booktitle={Proceedings of the ACM Sensys},year={2023}}
title = {MagCode: Bringing NFC Feature to All Smartphones},author = {Dai, Donghui and An, Zhenlin and Pan, Qingrui and Yang, Lei},booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM MOBICOM},year = {2023}}
Demo
Radio Frequency Neural Networks for Wireless Sensing
@inproceedings{tong2023radio,title={Radio Frequency Neural Networks for Wireless Sensing},author={Tong, Jingyu and An, Zhenlin and Zhao, Xiaopeng and Liao, Sicong and Yang, Lei},booktitle={Proceedings of the ACM MOBICOM},year={2023}}
Earth Obs. Geoinf.
A Bi-LSTM approach for modelling movement uncertainty of crowdsourced human trajectories under complex urban environments
Yue Yu, Yepeng Yao, Zhewei Liu, Zhenlin An, Biyu Chen, Liang Chen, and Ruizhi Chen
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 2023
@article{yu2023bi,title={A Bi-LSTM approach for modelling movement uncertainty of crowdsourced human trajectories under complex urban environments},author={Yu, Yue and Yao, Yepeng and Liu, Zhewei and An, Zhenlin and Chen, Biyu and Chen, Liang and Chen, Ruizhi},journal={International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation},volume={122},pages={103412},year={2023},publisher={Elsevier},}
SECON
Revisiting Backscatter Frequency Drifts for Fingerprinting RFIDs: A Perspective of Frequency Resolution
@inproceedings{pan2023revisiting,title={Revisiting Backscatter Frequency Drifts for Fingerprinting RFIDs: A Perspective of Frequency Resolution},author={Pan, Qingrui and An, Zhenlin and Zhao, Xiaopeng and Yang, Lei},booktitle={IEEE SECON},year={2023}}
@inproceedings{zhao2023nerf2,title={NeRF2: Neural Radio-Frequency Radiance Fields},author={Zhao, Xiaopeng and An, Zhenlin and Pan, Qingrui and Yang, Lei},booktitle={Proceedings of the ACM MOBICOM 2023 Conference},year={2023},note={This paper received the Best Paper Runner-up Award at MobiCom 2023.}}
@inproceedings{dai2023inducing,title={Inducing wireless chargers to voice out for inaudible command attacks},author={Dai, Donghui and An, Zhenlin and Yang, Lei},booktitle={2023 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)},pages={503--520},year={2023},organization={IEEE Computer Society}}
@inproceedings{yang2023nfc,title={NFChain: A Practical Fingerprinting Scheme for NFC Tag Authentication},author={Yang, Yanni and Cao, Jiannong and An, Zhenlin and Wang, Yanwen and Hu, Pengfei and Zhang, Guoming},booktitle={IEEE INFOCOM},year={2023},organization={IEEE}}
@inproceedings{yang2023nfd,title={Transfer Beamforming via Beamforming for Transfer},author={Yang, Xueyuan and An, Zhenlin and Zhao, Xiaopeng and Yang, Lei},booktitle={IEEE INFOCOM},year={2023},organization={IEEE}}
@inproceedings{gong2022empowering,title={Empowering smart buildings with self-sensing concrete for structural health monitoring},author={Gong, Zheng and Han, Lubing and An, Zhenlin and Yang, Lei and Ding, Siqi and Xiang, Yu},booktitle={Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM},pages={560--575},year={2022}}
@article{an2022localizing,title={Localizing RFIDs in Pixel Dimensions},author={An, Zhenlin and Lin, Qiongzheng and Yang, Lei and Guo, Yi and Li, Ping},journal={ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)},year={2022},publisher={ACM New York, NY}}
@article{an2022tagcaster,title={Tagcaster: Activating Wireless Voice of Electronic Toll Collection Systems With Zero Start-Up Cost},author={An, Zhenlin and Lin, Qiongzheng and Yang, Lei and Xie, Lei},journal={IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking},year={2022},publisher={IEEE}}
@article{pan2022lsab,title={LSAB: Enhancing Spatio-Temporal Efficiency of AoA Tracking Systems},author={Pan, Qingrui and An, Zhenlin and Yang, Lei and Lin, Qiongzheng},journal={ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)},year={2022},publisher={ACM}}
@inproceedings{pan2022lsac,title={LSAB: Enhancing Spatio-Temporal Efficiency of AoA Tracking Systems},author={Pan, Qingrui and An, Zhenlin and Lin, Qiongzheng and Yang, Lei},booktitle={IEEE INFOCOM},pages={1858--1867},year={2022},organization={IEEE}}
Demo
Constructing smart buildings with in-concrete backscatter networks
@inproceedings{pan2022rf,title={RF-DNA: large-scale physical-layer identifications of RFIDs via dual natural attributes},author={Pan, Qingrui and An, Zhenlin and Yang, Xueyuan and Zhao, Xiaopeng and Yang, Lei},booktitle={Proceedings of ACM MobiCom},pages={419--431},year={2022}}
@inproceedings{dai2022inducing,title={Inducing wireless chargers to voice out},author={Dai, Donghui and An, Zhenlin and Yang, Lei},booktitle={Proceedings of ACM MobiCom},pages={808--810},year={2022}}
2021
IJGIS
RegNet: a neural network model for predicting regional desirability with VGI data
Wenzhong Shi, Zhewei Liu, Zhenlin An, and Pengfei Chen
International Journal of Geographical Information Science 2021
@article{shi2021regnet,title={RegNet: a neural network model for predicting regional desirability with VGI data},author={Shi, Wenzhong and Liu, Zhewei and An, Zhenlin and Chen, Pengfei},journal={International Journal of Geographical Information Science},volume={35},number={1},pages={175--192},year={2021},publisher={Taylor Francis}}
@article{an2021identifying,title={Identifying UHF RFIDs in Range of Readers With WiFi},author={An, Zhenlin and Yang, Lei and Lin, Qiongzheng},journal={IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking},number={01},pages={1--14},year={2021},publisher={IEEE Computer Society}}
@inproceedings{an2021one,author={An, Zhenlin and Lin, Qiongzheng and Zhao, Xiaopeng and Yang, Lei and Zheng, Dongliang and Wu, Guiqing and Chang, Shan},booktitle={Proceedings of ACM MobiCom},pages={108--120},year={2021}}
@inproceedings{an2021turbocharging,title={Turbocharging Deep Backscatter Through Constructive Power Surges with a Single RF Source},author={An, Zhenlin and Lin, Qiongzheng and Pan, Qingrui and Yang, Lei},booktitle={IEEE INFOCOM},pages={1--10},year={2021},organization={IEEE}}
Thesis
On cross-technology mutualism in the internet of things: communication and localization
@article{an2021cross,title={On cross-technology mutualism in the internet of things: communication and localization},author={An, Zhenlin and others},year={2021},publisher={Hong Kong Polytechnic University}}
@inproceedings{an2020general,title={General-purpose deep tracking platform across protocols for the internet of things},author={An, Zhenlin and Lin, Qiongzheng and Li, Ping and Yang, Lei},booktitle={Proceedings of ACM MobiSys},pages={94--106},year={2020}}
SECON
RFCamera: Identifying RFIDs in Pixel Dimensions
Qiongzheng Lin, Lei Yang, Zhenlin An, Yi Guo, and Ping Li
@inproceedings{lin2020rfcamera,title={RFCamera: Identifying RFIDs in Pixel Dimensions},author={Lin, Qiongzheng and Yang, Lei and An, Zhenlin and Guo, Yi and Li, Ping},booktitle={IEEE SECON},pages={1--9},year={2020},organization={IEEE}}
@article{an2020revitalizing,title={Revitalizing ultrasonic positioning systems for ultrasound-incapable smart devices},author={An, Zhenlin and Lin, Qiongzheng and Yang, Lei and Guo, Yi},journal={IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing},volume={20},number={5},pages={2007--2024},year={2020},publisher={IEEE}}
@article{an2020acquiring,title={Acquiring bloom filters across commercial RFIDs in physical layer},author={An, Zhenlin and Lin, Qiongzheng and Yang, Lei and Lou, Wei and Xie, Lei},journal={IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking},volume={28},number={4},pages={1804--1817},year={2020},publisher={IEEE}}
@inproceedings{lin2019rebooting,title={Rebooting ultrasonic positioning systems for ultrasound-incapable smart devices},author={Lin, Qiongzheng and An, Zhenlin and Yang, Lei},booktitle={Proceedings of ACM MobiCom},pages={1--16},year={2019}}
@article{lin2019tash,title={Tash: Toward selective reading as hash primitives for Gen2 RFIDs},author={Lin, Qiongzheng and Yang, Lei and Duan, Chunhui and An, Zhenlin},journal={IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking},volume={27},number={2},pages={819--834},year={2019},publisher={IEEE}}
@inproceedings{li2019towards,title={Towards physical-layer vibration sensing with rfids},author={Li, Ping and An, Zhenlin and Yang, Lei and Yang, Panlong},booktitle={IEEE INFOCOM 2019},pages={892--900},year={2019},organization={IEEE}}
@inproceedings{an2019embracing,title={Embracing Tag Collisions: Acquiring Bloom Filters across RFIDs in Physical Layer},author={An, Zhenlin and Lin, Qiongzheng and Yang, Lei and Lou, Wei},booktitle={IEEE INFOCOM},pages={1531--1539},year={2019},organization={IEEE}}
@inproceedings{an2019activating,title={Activating wireless voice for e-toll collection systems with zero start-up cost},author={An, Zhenlin and Yang, Lei and Lin, Qiongzheng},booktitle={Proceedings of ACM MobiCom},pages={1--3},year={2019}}
@article{li2019rfid,title={RFID harmonic for vibration sensing},author={Li, Ping and An, Zhenlin and Yang, Lei and Yang, Panlong and Lin, QiongZheng},journal={IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing},volume={20},number={4},pages={1614--1626},year={2019},publisher={IEEE}}
@inproceedings{an2018cross,title={Cross-Frequency Communication: Near-Field Identification of UHF RFIDs with WiFi!},author={An, Zhenlin and Lin, Qiongzheng and Yang, Lei},booktitle={Proceedings of ACM MobiCom},pages={623--638},year={2018}}
@inproceedings{yang2017analog,title={Analog on-tag hashing: Towards selective reading as hash primitives in Gen2 RFID systems},author={Yang, Lei and Lin, Qiongzheng and Duan, Chunhui and An, Zhenlin},booktitle={Proceedings of ACM MobiCom},pages={301--314},year={2017}}