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Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are envisioned as a potentially transformative technology for future wireless communications. However, RISs' inability to process signals and the attendant increased channel dimension have brought…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Jieao Zhu , Kunzan Liu , Zhongzhichao Wan , Linglong Dai , Tie Jun Cui , H. Vincent Poor

Wi-Fi sensing is a transformative approach that enables a large of applications through CSI analysis. The challenge lies in the high computational and communication costs with the increasing granularity of CSI data. In this letter, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-08 Jichen Bian

To establish reliable and long-range millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication, beamforming is deemed to be a promising solution. Although beamforming can be done in the digital and analog domains, both approaches are hindered by several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-01 ohaned Chraiti , Dmitry Chizhik , Jinfeng Du , Reinaldo A. Valenzuela , Ali Ghrayeb , Chadi Assi

Ambient intelligence, continuously understanding human presence, activity, and physiology in physical spaces, is fundamental to smart environments, health monitoring, and human-computer interaction. WiFi infrastructure provides a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Guozhen Zhu , Yuqian Hu , Sakila Jayaweera , Weihang Gao , Wei-Hsiang Wang , Jiaxuan Zhang , Beibei Wang , Chenshu Wu , K. J. Ray Liu

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication, utilizing beamforming techniques to address the inherent path loss limitation, is considered as one of the key technologies to support ever increasing high throughput and low latency demands of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Muhammad Baqer Mollah , Honggang Wang , Mohammad Ataul Karim , Hua Fang

Device-free Wi-Fi sensing has numerous benefits in practical settings, as it eliminates the requirement for dedicated sensing devices and can be accomplished using current low-cost Wi-Fi devices. With the development of Wi-Fi standards,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 Wenbo Ding , Yang Li , Dongsheng Wang , Bin Zhao , Yunrong Zhu , Yibo Zhang , Yumeng Miao

In this article, we present a survey of recent advances in passive human behaviour recognition in indoor areas using the channel state information (CSI) of commercial WiFi systems. Movement of human body causes a change in the wireless…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Siamak Yousefi , Hirokazu Narui , Sankalp Dayal , Stefano Ermon , Shahrokh Valaee

In the last years, several machine learning-based techniques have been proposed to monitor human movements from Wi-Fi channel readings. However, the development of domain-adaptive algorithms that robustly work across different environments…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Francesca Meneghello , Nicolò Dal Fabbro , Domenico Garlisi , Ilenia Tinnirello , Michele Rossi

Beyond data communications, commercial-off-the-shelf Wi-Fi devices can be used to monitor human activities, track device locomotion, and sense the ambient environment. In particular, spatial beam attributes that are inherently available in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Pu Wang , Ye Wang

Transmit beamforming is one of the key techniques used in the existing IEEE 802.11 WiFi standards and future generations such as 11be and 11bn, a.k.a., ultra high reliability (UHR). The paper gives an overview of the current standardization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Ziming He

The emerging convergence of next-generation wireless networks and agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is inspiring a new vision: embodied intelligent network entities utilize environmental sensing to refine their physical-layer (PHY)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Haotian Zhang , Shijian Gao , Xiang Cheng

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

This paper considers joint beamformer design towards maximizing the mutual information in a coherent wireless sensor network with noisy observation and multiple antennae. Leveraging the weighted minimum mean square error and block…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-12 Yang Liu , Jing Li , Xuanxuan Lu

The development of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems has recently gained interest for its ability to offer a variety of services including resources sharing and new applications, for example, localization, tracking, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-17 Mohamed Abdalgader , Nadia Adem

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are being used in various applications such as structural health monitoring and industrial control. Since energy efficiency is one of the major design factors, the existing WSNs primarily rely on low-power,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Chia-Chi Li , Vikram K. Ramanna , Daniel Webber , Cole Hunter , Tyler Hack , Behnam Dezfouli

Beamforming is indispensable in the operation of 60-GHz millimeter-wave directional multi-gigabit Wi-Fi. Simple power method and its extensions enable the transmitting and receiving antenna arrays to form a beam for single spatial stream.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Keang-Po Ho , Shi Cheng , Jianhan Liu

Wi-Fi sensing has been extensively explored for various applications, including vital sign monitoring, human activity recognition, indoor localization, and tracking. However, practical implementation in real-world scenarios is hindered by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 He Wang , Yunpeng Ge , Ivan Wang-Hei Ho

Deep learning has been widely adopted for WiFi CSI-based human activity recognition (HAR) due to its ability to learn spatio-temporal features in a privacy-preserving and cost-effective manner. However, DL-based models generalize poorly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Ahmed Y. Radwan , Hina Tabassum

With the growing demand for device-free and privacy-preserving sensing solutions, Wi-Fi sensing has emerged as a promising approach for human pose estimation (HPE). However, existing methods often process vast amounts of channel state…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Toan Gian , Dung T. Tran , Viet Quoc Pham , Francesco Restuccia , Van-Dinh Nguyen

Indoor humidity is a crucial factor affecting people's health and well-being. Wireless humidity sensing techniques are scalable and low-cost, making them a promising solution for measuring humidity in indoor environments without requiring…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Yirui Deng , Deepak Mishra , Shaghik Atakaramians , Aruna Seneviratne