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Due to its ubiquitous and contact-free nature, the use of WiFi infrastructure for performing sensing tasks has tremendous potential. However, the channel state information (CSI) measured by a WiFi receiver suffers from errors in both its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Vishnu V. Ratnam , Hao Chen , Hao Hsuan Chang , Abhishek Sehgal , Jianzhong , Zhang

New security and privacy concerns arise due to the growing popularity of voice assistant (VA) deployments in home and enterprise networks. A number of past research results have demonstrated how malicious actors can use hidden commands to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Zhengxian He , Mohit Narayan Rajput , Mustaque Ahamad

Deep learning technologies are pivotal in enhancing the performance of WiFi-based wireless sensing systems. However, they are inherently vulnerable to adversarial perturbation attacks, and regrettably, there is lacking serious attention to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Hangcheng Cao , Wenbin Huang , Guowen Xu , Xianhao Chen , Ziyang He , Jingyang Hu , Hongbo Jiang , Yuguang Fang

Covert wireless communications are critical for concealing the existence of any transmission from adversarial wardens, particularly in complex environments with multiple heterogeneous detectors. This paper proposes a novel adversarial AI…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-02 Afan Ali , Md. Jalil Piran , Huseyin Arslan

This paper introduces CSI-RFF, a new framework that leverages micro-signals embedded within Channel State Information (CSI) curves to realize Radio-Frequency Fingerprinting of commodity off-the-shelf (COTS) WiFi devices for open-set…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-27 Ruiqi Kong , He Chen

With the rapid development of wireless communication technology, wireless access points (AP) and internet of things (IoT) devices have been widely deployed in our surroundings. Various types of wireless signals (e.g., Wi-Fi, LoRa, LTE) are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Zheng Yang , Yi Zhang , Guoxuan Chi , Guidong Zhang

Modern optical mouse sensors, with their advanced precision and high responsiveness, possess an often overlooked vulnerability: they can be exploited for side-channel attacks. This paper introduces Mic-E-Mouse, the first-ever side-channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Mohamad Fakih , Rahul Dharmaji , Youssef Mahmoud , Halima Bouzidi , Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque

In a multi-agent system, agents can cooperatively learn a model from data by exchanging their estimated model parameters, without the need to exchange the locally available data used by the agents. This strategy, often called federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Halil Yigit Oksuz , Fabio Molinari , Henning Sprekeler , Jörg Raisch

We propose a method for covert communications using an IEEE 802.11 OFDM/QAM packet as a carrier. We show how to hide the covert message so that the transmitted signal does not violate the spectral mask specified by the standard, and we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-27 Daniel Chew , Christine Nguyen , Samuel Berhanu , Chris Baumgart , A. Brinton Cooper

A previously unknown form of compromising emanations has been discovered. LED status indicators on data communication equipment, under certain conditions, are shown to carry a modulated optical signal that is significantly correlated with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Joe Loughry , David A. Umphress

Over-the-air computation has the potential to increase the communication-efficiency of data-dependent distributed wireless systems, but is vulnerable to eavesdropping. We consider over-the-air computation over block-fading additive white…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Luis Maßny , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Radio-frequency identification(RFID) technology is widely applied in daily human life. The RFID cards are seen everywhere, from entrance guard to consumption. The information security of RFID cards, such as data confidentiality, tag…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Zheng Zhou , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

This work presents a seminal approach for synthesizing images from WiFi Channel State Information (CSI) in through-wall scenarios. Leveraging the strengths of WiFi, such as cost-effectiveness, illumination invariance, and wall-penetrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Julian Strohmayer , Rafael Sterzinger , Christian Stippel , Martin Kampel

Wi-Fi signals can be exploited by adversaries as a sensing side channel to eavesdrop on physical information. By monitoring propagation effects of radio waves within the victim's environment, attackers can remotely infer sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Johannes Kortz , Paul Staat , Christof Paar , Christian Zenger

In this paper, we design a simple, low-cost, and low-power wake-up receiver which can be used for an IEEE 802.11-compliant device to remotely wake up the other devices by utilizing its own wireless LAN (WLAN) signals. The employed wake-up…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hiroyuki Yomo , Yoshihisa Kondo , Noboru Miyamoto , Suhua Tang , Masahito Iwai , Tetsuya Ito

This paper presents a new radiometric fingerprint that is revealed by micro-signals in the channel state information (CSI) curves extracted from commodity Wi-Fi devices. We refer to this new fingerprint as "micro-CSI". Our experiments show…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-02 Ruiqi Kong , He Chen

Today, mobile phones are very popular, fast growing technology. Mobile phones of the present day are more and more like small computers. The so-called "smartphones" contain a wealth of information each. This information has been proven to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Bert Busstra , Nhien-An Le-Khac , M-Tahar Kechadi

The idea of exploiting the Wi-Fi bursts as the medium for sensing purposes, particularly for the human targets in the indoor environment, was cultivated in both radar and computer science communities and it has became a noticeable research…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-11 Bo Tan , Bo Sun

In recent years, WiFi sensing has been recognized as a promising technology to bring respiratory monitoring into everyday homes, thanks to its contactless nature and ubiquitous availability. However, existing WiFi-based respiratory…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Hefei Wang , Jianwei Liu , Yinghui He , Guanding Yu , Jinsong Han

Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are integrated circuits that implement reconfigurable hardware. They are used in modern systems, creating specialized, highly-optimized integrated circuits without the need to design and manufacture…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Ilias Giechaskiel , Kasper B. Rasmussen , Ken Eguro