Staff attendance information has always been an important part of corporate management. However, some opportunistic employees may consign others to punch their time cards, which hampers the authenticity of attendance and effectiveness of record keeping. Hence, it is necessary to develop an innovative anti-cheating system for office attendance. Radio-Frequency IDentification (RFID) offers new solutions to solve such problems because of its strong anti-interference capability and non-intrusiveness. In this paper, we present a smart attendance system that extracts distinguishable phase characteristics of individuals to enable recognition of various targets. A frequency distribution histogram is extracted as a fingerprint for recognition and the K-means clustering method is utilized for more fine-grained recognition of targets with similar features. Compared with traditional attendance mechanisms, RFID-based attendance systems are based on living biological characteristics, which greatly reduces the possibility of false records. To evaluate the performance of our system, we conducted extensive experiments. The results of which demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of our system with an average accuracy of $\mathrm{92}\mathrm{\%}$. Moreover, the system evaluation shows that our design is robust against differences in the clothing worn and time of day, which further verifies the successful performance of our system.

The 3-ary n-cube, denoted as $Q_n^3$, is an important interconnection network topology proposed for parallel computers, owing to its many desirable properties such as regular and symmetrical structure, and strong scalability, among others. In this paper, we first obtain an exact formula for the minimum wirelength to embed $Q_n^3$ into grids. We then propose a load balancing algorithm for embedding $Q_n^3$ into a square grid with minimum dilation and congestion. Finally, we derive an O(N²) algorithm for embedding $Q_n^3$ into a gird with balanced communication, where N is the number of nodes in $Q_n^3$. Simulation experiments are performed to verify the total wirelength and evaluate the network cost of our proposed embedding algorithm.

Device-free Passive (DfP) detection has received increasing attention for its ability to support various pervasive applications. Instead of relying on variable Received Signal Strength (RSS), most recent studies rely on finer-grained Channel State Information (CSI). However, existing methods have some limitations, in that they are effective only in the Line-Of-Sight (LOS) or for more than one moving individual. In this paper, we analyze the human motion effect on CSI and propose a novel scheme for Robust Passive Motion Detection (R-PMD). Since traditional low-pass filtering has a number of limitations with respect to data denoising, we adopt a novel Principal Component Analysis (PCA)-based filtering technique to capture the representative signals of human motion and extract the variance profile as the sensitive metric for human detection. In addition, existing schemes simply aggregate CSI values over all the antennas in MIMO systems. Instead, we investigate the sensing quality of each antenna and aggregate the best combination of antennas to achieve more accurate and robust detection. The R-PMD prototype uses off-the-shelf WiFi devices and the experimental results demonstrate that R-PMD achieves an average detection rate of 96.33% with a false alarm rate of 3.67%.