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In this paper, we propose BeamSense, a completely novel approach to implement standard-compliant Wi-Fi sensing applications. Wi-Fi sensing enables game-changing applications in remote healthcare, home entertainment, and home surveillance,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Khandaker Foysal Haque , Milin Zhang , Francesca Meneghello , Francesco Restuccia

Human Action Recognition using WiFi Channel State Information (CSI) has emerged as an attractive alternative to vision-based methods due to its ubiquity, device-agnostic nature, and inherent privacy-preserving capabilities. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Gang Liu , Yanling Hao , Yixuan Zou

Wi-Fi technology has evolved from simple communication routers to sensing devices. Wi-Fi sensing leverages conventional Wi-Fi transmissions to extract and analyze channel state information (CSI) for applications like proximity detection,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Ahmed Y. Radwan , Mustafa Yildirim , Navid Hasanzadeh , Hina Tabassum , Shahrokh Valaee

In a spoofing attack, an attacker impersonates a legitimate user to access or modify data belonging to the latter. Typical approaches for spoofing detection in the physical layer declare an attack when a change is observed in certain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-18 Daniel Romero , Tien Ngoc Ha , Peter Gerstoft

Recompositing channel state information (CSI) from the beamforming feedback matrix (BFM), which is a compressed version of CSI and can be captured because of its lack of encryption, is an alternative way of implementing firmware-agnostic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-06 Hiroki Shimomura , Yusuke Koda , Takamochi Kanda , Koji Yamamoto , Takayuki Nishio , Akihito Taya

Generating keys and keeping them secret is critical in secure communications. Due to the "open-air" nature, key distribution is more susceptible to attacks in wireless communications. An ingenious solution is to generate common secret keys…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-06 Jizhong Zhao , Wei Xi , Jinsong Han , Shaojie Tang , Xiangyang Li , Yunhao Liu , Yihong Gong , Zehua Zhou

The contact-free sensing nature of Wi-Fi has been leveraged to achieve privacy breaches, yet existing attacks relying on Wi-Fi CSI (channel state information) demand hacking Wi-Fi hardware to obtain desired CSIs. Since such hacking has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Jingyang Hu , Hongbo Wang , Tianyue Zheng , Jingzhi Hu , Zhe Chen , Hongbo Jiang , Jun Luo

The first step of a secure communication is authenticating legible users and detecting the malicious ones. In the last recent years, some promising schemes proposed using wireless medium network's features, in particular, channel state…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Amirhossein Yazdani Abyaneh , Ali Hosein Gharari Foumani , Vahid Pourahmadi

Authentication and encryption are traditionally treated as two separate processes in wireless networks, this paper integrates user authentication into the process of solving eavesdropping attacks. A compressed sensing (CS)-based framework…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Chaoqing Tang

We consider a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) surveillance system, in which multiple multi-antenna monitoring nodes (MNs) are deployed in either observing or jamming mode to disrupt the communication between a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Isabella W. G. da Silva , Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

Randomized MAC addresses aim to prevent passive device tracking, yet Wi-Fi management frames still leak structured behavioral patterns. Prior work has relied primarily on syntactic probe-request features such as Information Elements (IEs),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Abhishek K. Mishra , Mathieu Cunche

Radio frequency fingerprint (RFF) is a promising device identification technology, with recent research shifting from robustness to security due to growing concerns over vulnerabilities. To date, while the security of RFF against basic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zhou Xu , Guyue Li , Zhe Peng , Aiqun Hu

Existing Wi-Fi sensing systems rely on injecting high-rate probing packets to extract channel state information (CSI), leading to communication degradation and poor deployability. Although Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) is a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Gaofeng Dong , Kang Yang , Mani Srivastava

Machine learning drives Channel State Information (CSI)-based human sensing in modern wireless networks, enabling applications like device-free human activity recognition (HAR) and identification (HID). However, the susceptibility of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Shreevanth Krishnaa Gopalakrishnan , Stephen Hailes

In a spoofing attack, a malicious actor impersonates a legitimate user to access or manipulate data without authorization. The vulnerability of cryptographic security mechanisms to compromised user credentials motivates spoofing attack…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Tien Ngoc Ha , Daniel Romero

Channel prediction permits to acquire channel state information (CSI) without signaling overhead. However, almost all existing channel prediction methods necessitate the deployment of a dedicated model to accommodate a specific…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-20 Boxun Liu , Shijian Gao , Xuanyu Liu , Xiang Cheng , Liuqing Yang

Wi-Fi-based positioning promises a scalable and privacy-preserving solution for location-based services in indoor environments such as malls, airports, and campuses. RSS-based methods are widely deployable as RSS data is available on all…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Abdulkadir Bilge , Erdem Ergen , Burak Soner , Sinem Coleri

In recent years, Wi-Fi sensing has garnered significant attention due to its numerous benefits, such as privacy protection, low cost, and penetration ability. Extensive research has been conducted in this field, focusing on areas such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zijian Zhao , Tingwei Chen , Zhijie Cai , Xiaoyang Li , Hang Li , Qimei Chen , Guangxu Zhu

The intrinsic hardware imperfection of WiFi chipsets manifests itself in the transmitted signal, leading to a unique radiometric fingerprint. This fingerprint can be used as an additional means of authentication to enhance security. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Luis F. Abanto-Leon , Andreas Baeuml , Gek Hong , Sim , Matthias Hollick , Arash Asadi

CSI (Channel State Information) of WiFi systems contains the environment channel response between the transmitter and the receiver, so the people/objects and their movement in between can be sensed. To get CSI, the receiver performs channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Xianjun Jiao , Michael Mehari , Wei Liu , Muhammad Aslam , Ingrid Moerman