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Device-free human tracking is an essential ingredient for ubiquitous wireless sensing. Recent passive WiFi tracking systems face the challenges of inaccurate separation of dynamic human components and time-consuming estimation of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Zhongqin Wang , J. Andrew Zhang , Min Xu , Y. Jay Guo

The problem of mapping human close-range proximity networks has been tackled using a variety of technical approaches. Wearable electronic devices, in particular, have proven to be particularly successful in a variety of settings relevant…

We outline a contact-tracing strategy based on proximity sensing using mobile devices. We discuss what an ideal system should look like and what it can do. We show that, when adopted sufficiently broadly, such a contact-tracing strategy can…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Ye Xia , Gwendolyn Lee

The paper targets the problem of human motion detection using Wireless Local Area Network devices (WiFi) equipped with pattern reconfigurable antennas. Motion sensing is obtained by monitoring the body-induced alterations of the ambient…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Marco Santoboni , Riccardo Bersan , Stefano Savazzi , Alberto Zecchin , Vittorio Rampa Daniele Piazza

Inspired by the epidemic contact tracing technique, we propose a method to efficiently solve electromagnetics by tracing the energy distribution. The computational domain is adaptively decomposed, and the available computational resources…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Wending Mai , Ronald P. Jenkins , Yifan Chen , Douglas H. Werner

This paper examines the application of WiFi signals for real-world monitoring of daily activities in home healthcare scenarios. While the state-of-the-art of WiFi-based activity recognition is promising in lab environments, challenges arise…

This work proposes a tool to estimate the interference between nodes and links in a live wireless network by passive monitoring of wireless traffic. This approach requires deploying multiple sniffers across the network to capture wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-17 U Sinthuja , R Sridevi

As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to evolve, indoor location has become a critical element for enabling smart homes, behavioral monitoring, and elderly care. Existing WiFi-based human tracking solutions typically require specialized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Wei Guo , Shunsei Yamagishi , Lei Jing

Recent advancements in wireless perception technologies, including mmWave, WiFi, and acoustics, have expanded their application in human motion tracking and health monitoring. They are promising alternatives to traditional camera-based…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yin Li , Rajalakshmi Nandakumar

In the current COVID-19 pandemic, manual contact tracing has been proven very helpful to reach close contacts of infected users and slow down virus spreading. To improve its scalability, a number of automated contact tracing (ACT) solutions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Qiang Tang

The advancement in wireless communication technologies is becoming more demanding and pervasive. One of the fundamental parameters that limit the efficiency of the network are the security challenges. The communication network is vulnerable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Misbah Shafi , Rakesh Kumar Jha , Sanjeev Jain

As an important biomarker for human identification, human gait can be collected at a distance by passive sensors without subject cooperation, which plays an essential role in crime prevention, security detection and other human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Lang Deng , Jianfei Yang , Shenghai Yuan , Han Zou , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Lihua Xie

WiFi sensing based on channel state information (CSI) collected from commodity WiFi devices has shown great potential across a wide range of applications, including vital sign monitoring and indoor localization. Existing WiFi sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Ruiqi Kong , He Chen

Contact tracing is an effective tool in controlling the spread of infectious diseases such as COVID-19. It involves digital monitoring and recording of physical proximity between people over time with a central and trusted authority, so…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Craig Gotsman , Kai Hormann

Automated contact tracing is a key solution to control the spread of airborne transmittable diseases: it traces contacts among individuals in order to alert people about their potential risk of being infected. The current SARS-CoV-2…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Marco Casagrande , Mauro Conti , Eleonora Losiouk

Detection and interpretation of human activities have emerged as a challenging healthcare problem in areas such as assisted living and remote monitoring. Besides traditional approaches that rely on wearable devices and camera systems, WiFi…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-12-14 Bo Tan , Qingchao Chen , Kevin Chetty , Karl Woodbridge , Wenda Li , Robert Piechocki

One vision of future wireless networks is that they will be deeply integrated and embedded in our lives and will involve the use of personalized mobile devices. User behavior in such networks is bound to affect the network performance. It…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-06-30 Wei-jen Hsu , Debojyoti Dutta , Ahmed Helmy

WiFi sensing has been evolving rapidly in recent years. Empowered by propagation models and deep learning methods, many challenging applications are realized such as WiFi-based human activity recognition and gesture recognition. However, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Jianfei Yang , Xinyan Chen , Dazhuo Wang , Han Zou , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Sumei Sun , Lihua Xie

WiFi-based human activity recognition (HAR) holds significant application potential across various fields. To handle dynamic environments where new activities are continuously introduced, WiFi-based HAR systems must adapt by learning new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Rong Li , Tao Deng , Siwei Feng , Mingjie Sun , Juncheng Jia

Contact tracing is one of the most important tools for preventing the spread of infectious diseases, but as the experience of COVID-19 showed, it is also next-to-impossible to implement when the disease is spreading rapidly. We show how to…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-12 Aparajithan Venkateswaran , Jishnu Das , Tyler H. McCormick