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Recently, Wi-Fi signals have emerged as a powerful tool for contactless sensing. During the sensing process, obtaining target direction information can provide valuable contextual insights for various applications. Existing direction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-27 Zhaoxin Chang , Shuguang Xiao , Fusang Zhang , Xujun Ma , Badii Jouaber , Qingfeng Zhang , Daqing Zhang

WiFi-based sensing has aroused immense attention over recent years. The rationale is that the signal fluctuations caused by humans carry the information of human behavior which can be extracted from the channel state information of WiFi.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Xie Zhang , Chengpei Tang , Yasong An , Kang Yin

Given the rapid advancements in wireless communication and terminal devices, high-speed and convenient WiFi has permeated various aspects of people's lives, and attention has been drawn to the location services that WiFi can provide.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-03 Jiyu Jiao , Xiaojun Wang , Chenlin He

This study experimentally validated the possibility of angle of departure (AoD) estimation using multiple signal classification (MUSIC) with only WiFi control frames for beamforming feedback (BFF), defined in IEEE 802.11ac/ax. The examined…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Sohei Itahara , Sota Kondo , Kota Yamashita , Takayuki Nishio , Koji Yamamoto , Yusuke Koda

This paper proposes a joint active and passive beamforming design for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided wireless communication systems, adopting a piece-wise near-field channel model. While a traditional near-field channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Weijian Chen , Zai Yang , Zhiqiang Wei , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Michail Matthaiou

Quality patient-provider communication is critical to improve clinical care and patient outcomes. While progress has been made with communication skills training for clinicians, significant gaps exist in how to best monitor, measure, and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Zhiyuan Wang , Nusayer Hassan , Virginia LeBaron , Tabor E. Flickinger , David Ling , James Edwards , Congyu Wu , Mehdi Boukhechba , Laura E. Barnes

4D human perception plays an essential role in a myriad of applications, such as home automation and metaverse avatar simulation. However, existing solutions which mainly rely on cameras and wearable devices are either privacy intrusive or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Jianfei Yang , He Huang , Yunjiao Zhou , Xinyan Chen , Yuecong Xu , Shenghai Yuan , Han Zou , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Lihua Xie

Wi-Fi technology has strong potentials in indoor and outdoor sensing applications, it has several important features which makes it an appealing option compared to other sensing technologies. This paper presents a survey on different…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-02 A. M. Khalili , Abdel-Hamid Soliman , Md Asaduzzaman , Alison Griffiths

Traditional physical layer secure beamforming is achieved via precoding before signal transmission using channel state information (CSI). However, imperfect CSI will compromise the performance with imperfect beamforming and potential…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Tongyang Xu , Zhongxiang Wei , Tianhua Xu , Gan Zheng

A novel location-aware beamforming scheme for millimeter wave communication is proposed for line of sight (LOS) and low mobility scenarios, in which computer vision is introduced to derive the required position or spatial angular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Tianqi Xiang , Yaxin Wang , Huiwen Li , Boren Guo , Xin Zhang

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

Vision-based methods are commonly used in robotic arm activity recognition. These approaches typically rely on line-of-sight (LoS) and raise privacy concerns, particularly in smart home applications. Passive Wi-Fi sensing represents a new…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Rojin Zandi , Kian Behzad , Elaheh Motamedi , Hojjat Salehinejad , Milad Siami

The high directionality of millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems has proven effective in reducing the attack surface against eavesdropping, thus improving the physical layer security. However, even with highly directional beams,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-20 Afifa Ishtiaq , Arash Asadi , Ladan Khaloopour , Waqar Ahmed , Vahid Jamali , Matthias Hollick

Massive MIMO basestations, operating with frequency-division duplexing (FDD), require the users to feedback their channel state information (CSI) in order to design the precoding matrices. Given the powerful capabilities of deep neural…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Yu Zhang , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Using RF signals for wireless sensing has gained increasing attention. However, due to the unwanted multi-path fading in uncontrollable radio environments, the accuracy of RF sensing is limited. Instead of passively adapting to the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-26 Jingzhi Hu , Hongliang Zhang , Kaigui Bian , Marco Di Renzo , Zhu Han , Lingyang Song

Collaborative beamforming enables nodes in a wireless network to transmit a common message over long distances in an energy efficient fashion. However, the process of making available the same message to all collaborating nodes introduces…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-01-22 Lun Dong , Athina P. Petropulu , H. Vincent Poor

The contact-free sensing nature of Wi-Fi has been leveraged to achieve privacy breaches, yet existing attacks relying on Wi-Fi CSI (channel state information) demand hacking Wi-Fi hardware to obtain desired CSIs. Since such hacking has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Jingyang Hu , Hongbo Wang , Tianyue Zheng , Jingzhi Hu , Zhe Chen , Hongbo Jiang , Jun Luo

Wi-Fi Channel State Information (CSI) enables device-free human activity recognition, but existing multi-user approaches assume a fixed set of known users during both training and inference. This closed-set assumption limits deployment, as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Kemal Bayik , Olayinka Ajayi , Daniel Roggen , Philip Birch

The use of WiFi signals to sense the physical environment is gaining popularity, with some common applications being motion detection and transmitter localization. Standard-compliant WiFi provides a cost effective, easy and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Florian Euchner , Stephan ten Brink

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