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The wireless network technology WiFi finds more and more applications in the industrial field as for the exchange of information between the people or the equipment. It has the advantage of allowing a great flexibility of the network but…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-07-12 François Demontoux , Jean-Louis Miane

Current best practices heavily control user permissions on network systems. This effectively mitigates many insider threats regarding the collection and exfiltration of data. Many methods of covert communication involve crafting custom…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Kenton Born

Wi-Fi devices, akin to passive radars, can discern human activities within indoor settings due to the human body's interaction with electromagnetic signals. Current Wi-Fi sensing applications predominantly employ data-driven learning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Marco Cominelli , Francesco Gringoli , Lance M. Kaplan , Mani B. Srivastava , Trevor Bihl , Erik P. Blasch , Nandini Iyer , Federico Cerutti

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

Physical layer authentication relies on detecting unique imperfections in signals transmitted by radio devices to isolate their fingerprint. Recently, deep learning-based authenticators have increasingly been proposed to classify devices…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Samurdhi Karunaratne , Enes Krijestorac , Danijela Cabric

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

A method for detecting electronic data theft from computer networks is described, capable of recognizing patterns of remote exfiltration occurring over days to weeks. Normal traffic flow data, in the form of a host's ingress and egress…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Brian A. Powell

Efficiently receiving underwater sound remotely from air is a long-standing challenge in acoustics hindered by the large impedance mismatch at the water-air interface. Here we introduce and experimentally demonstrate a technique for remote…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-08-30 Jing-jing Liu , Zheng-wei Li , Bin Liang , Jian-chun Cheng , Andrea Alu

In this letter, we experimentally investigate a low-cost through-the-wall imaging exploiting Wi-Fi signals in an indoor environment from the perspective of holographic imaging. In our experiments, a pair of antennas in a synthetic aperture…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-12 Wei Zhong , Kai He , Lianlin Li

Wireless data aggregation (WDA), referring to aggregating data distributed at devices (e.g., sensors and smartphone), is a common operation in 5G-and-beyond machine-type communications to support Internet-of-Things (IoT), which lays the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Guangxu Zhu , Jie Xu , Kaibin Huang , Shuguang Cui

Recent research has shown that human motions and positions can be recognized through WiFi signals. The key intuition is that different motions and positions introduce different multi-path distortions in WiFi signals and generate different…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-30 Heju Li , Xukai Chen , Haohua Du , Xin He , Jianwei Qian , Peng-Jun Wan , Panlong Yang

Groundbreaking applications such as ChatGPT have heightened research interest in generative artificial intelligence (GAI). Essentially, GAI excels not only in content generation but also in signal processing, offering support for wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-23 Jiacheng Wang , Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato , Zehui Xiong , Jiawen Kang , Bo Ai , Zhu Han , Dong In Kim

WiFi is inherently vulnerable to eavesdropping because RF signals may penetrate many physical boundaries, such as walls and floors. LiFi, by contrast, is an optical method confined to line-of-sight and blocked by opaque surfaces. We present…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Shiqi Xu , Yuyang Du , Mingyue Zhang , Hongwei Cui , Soung Chang Liew

In sight of fundamental thermal limits on further substantial performance improvements of modern digital computational processing units, wave-based analog computation is becoming an enticing alternative. A wave, as it propagates through a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Philipp del Hougne , Geoffroy Lerosey

Wireless signals are commonly used for communications. Emerging applications are giving new functions to wireless signals, in which wireless sensing is the most attractive one. Channel state information (CSI) is not only the parameter for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Tongyang Xu

From an arbitrary given channel code over a discrete or Gaussian memoryless channel, we construct a wiretap code with the strong security. Our construction can achieve the wiretap capacity under mild assumptions. The key tool is the new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-06 Masahito Hayashi , Ryutaroh Matsumoto

WiFi channel state information (CSI) has emerged as a plausible modality for sensing different human vital signs, i.e. respiration and body motion, as a function of modulated wireless signals that travel between WiFi devices. Although a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-23 Kamran Ali , Mohammed Alloulah , Fahim Kawsar , Alex X. Liu

WiFi offloading has emerged as a key component of cellular operator strategy to meet the data needs of rich, mobile devices. As such, mobile devices tend to aggressively seek out WiFi in order to provide improved user Quality of Experience…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-02-05 Xueheng Hu , Lixing Song , Dirk Van Bruggen , Aaron Striegel

Recent research shows that colluded malware in different VMs sharing a single physical host may use a resource as a channel to leak critical information. Covert channels employ time or storage characteristics to transmit confidential…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-09 Mansaf Alam , Shuchi Sethi

Covert channels can be used to circumvent system and network policies by establishing communications that have not been considered in the design of the computing system. We construct a covert channel between different computing systems that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-06-06 Michael Hanspach , Michael Goetz