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In recent years WiFi became the primary source of information to locate a person or device indoor. Collecting RSSI values as reference measurements with known positions, known as WiFi fingerprinting, is commonly used in various positioning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Kahraman Kostas , Rabia Yasa Kostas , Francisco Zampella , Firas Alsehly

Mobile devices have been shipped with multiple wireless network interfaces in order to meet their diverse communication and networking demands. In this paper, we propose an A-GPS assisted scheme that discovers the nearest Wi-Fi network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-01-04 Feng Xia , Wei Zhang , Fangwei Ding , Ruonan Hao

Fingerprinting is a popular indoor localization technique since it can utilize existing infrastructures (e.g., access points). However, its site survey process is a labor-intensive and time-consuming task, which limits the application of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Fuqiang Gu , Milad Ramezani , Kourosh Khoshelham , Xiaoping Zheng , Ruiqin Zhou , Jianga Shang

Wi-Fi sensing has emerged as a versatile tool for tasks such as localization, gesture recognition, and vital-sign monitoring, enabling applications from smart environments to personalized healthcare. However, sensing accuracy often…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Fabian Portner , Francesco Gringoli , Matthias Hollick , Arash Asadi

It has been shown that the channel state information (CSI) of a Wi-Fi system can be exploited to localize Wi-Fi devices or track trajectory of a moving target. In the existing literature, both sensing tasks are treated separately and some…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Chunxi Chen , Jingwen Zhang , Chao Yu , Fan Liu , Rui Wang

With the rise of hailing services, people are increasingly relying on shared mobility (e.g., Uber, Lyft) drivers to pick up for transportation. However, such drivers and riders have difficulties finding each other in urban areas as GPS…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Sirajum Munir , Hongkai Chen , Shiwei Fang , Mahathir Monjur , Shan Lin , Shahriar Nirjon

In this paper, we show that attackers can exfiltrate data from air-gapped computers via Wi-Fi signals. Malware in a compromised air-gapped computer can generate signals in the Wi-Fi frequency bands. The signals are generated through the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Mordechai Guri

With the increasing need for wireless data transfer, Wi-Fi networks have rapidly grown in recent years providing high throughput and easy deployment. Nowadays, Access Points (APs) can be found easily wherever we go, therefore Wi-Fi sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-13 Danilo Avola , Marco Cascio , Luigi Cinque , Daniele Pannone

The Internet of Things (IoT) has boomed in recent years, with an ever-growing number of connected devices and a corresponding exponential increase in network traffic. As a result, IoT devices have become potential witnesses of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Fabio Palmese , Alessandro E. C. Redondi

WiFi-based home monitoring has emerged as a compelling alternative to traditional camera- and sensor-based solutions, offering wide coverage with minimal intrusion by leveraging existing wireless infrastructure. This paper presents key…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-06 Guozhen Zhu , Yuqian Hu , Chenshu Wu , Wei-Hsiang Wang , Beibei Wang , K. J. Ray Liu

To ensure an unprecedented degree of flexibility, next-generation Industry 4.0/5.0 production plants increasingly rely on mobile devices, e.g., autonomous mobile robots and wearables. In these cases, a major requirement is getting rid of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Pietro Chiavassa , Stefano Scanzio , Gianluca Cena

Because each indoor site has its own radio propagation characteristics, a site survey process is essential to optimize a Wi-Fi ranging strategy for range-based positioning solutions. This paper studies an unsupervised learning technique…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Jeongsik Choi

Radio map in general refers to the geographical signal power spectrum density, formed by the superposition of concurrent wireless transmissions, as a function of location, frequency and time. It contains rich and useful information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Suzhi Bi , Jiangbin Lyu , Zhi Ding , Rui Zhang

While commonly used for communication purposes, an increasing number of recent studies consider WiFi for sensing. In particular, wireless signals are altered (e.g., reflected and attenuated) by the human body and objects in the environment.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Philipp H. Kindt , Cristian Turetta , Florenc Demrozi , Alejandro Masrur , Graziano Pravadelli , Samarjit Chakraborty

Mobile device localization in wireless sensor networks is a challenging task. It has already been addressed when the WiFI propagation maps of the access points are modeled deterministically. However, this procedure does not take into…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-09-27 Thierry Dumont , Sylvain Le Corff

Personal indoor localization is usually accomplished by fusing information from various sensors. A common choice is to use the WiFi adapter that provides information about Access Points that can be found in the vicinity. Unfortunately,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Jan Wietrzykowski , Michał Nowicki , Piotr Skrzypczyński

Data-driven Wi-Fi localization and tracking have shown great promise due to their lower reliance on specialized hardware compared to model-based methods. However, most existing data collection techniques provide only coarse-grained ground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Zijian Zhao , Tingwei Chen , Fanyi Meng , Zhijie Cai , Hang Li , Xiaoyang Li , Guangxu Zhu

As WiFi grows ever more popular, airtime contention becomes an increasing problem. One way to alleviate this is through network policy enforcement. Unfortunately, WiFi lacks protocol support for configuring policies for its usage, and since…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Toke Høiland-Jørgensen , Per Hurtig , Anna Brunstrom

We study six months of human mobility data, including WiFi and GPS traces recorded with high temporal resolution, and find that time series of WiFi scans contain a strong latent location signal. In fact, due to inherent stability and low…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-08-24 Piotr Sapiezynski , Arkadiusz Stopczynski , Radu Gatej , Sune Lehmann

The fact that almost every person owns a smartphone device that can be precisely located is both empowering and worrying. If methods for accurate tracking of devices (and their owners) via WiFi probing are developed in a responsible way,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Syed Salman Alam , Muhammad Al-Qurishi , Riad Souissi