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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

Wi-Fi signals may help realize low-cost and non-invasive human sensing, yet it can also be exploited by eavesdroppers to capture private information. Very few studies rise to handle this privacy concern so far; they either jam all sensing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Jun Luo , Hangcheng Cao , Hongbo Jiang , Yanbing Yang , Zhe Chen

Wireless devices resorting to event-triggered communications have been proved to suffer critical privacy issues, due to the intrinsic leakage associated with radio-frequency (RF) emissions. In this paper, we move the attack frontier forward…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Gabriele Oligeri , Savio Sciancalepore , Simone Raponi , Roberto Di Pietro

Previous contact tracing systems required the users to perform many manual actions, such as installing smartphone applications, joining wireless networks, or carrying custom user devices. This increases the barrier to entry and lowers the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-07 Brosnan Yuen , Yifeng Bie , Duncan Cairns , Geoffrey Harper , Jason Xu , Charles Chang , Xiaodai Dong , Tao Lu

In this paper, we propose BeamSense, a completely novel approach to implement standard-compliant Wi-Fi sensing applications. Wi-Fi sensing enables game-changing applications in remote healthcare, home entertainment, and home surveillance,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Khandaker Foysal Haque , Milin Zhang , Francesca Meneghello , Francesco Restuccia

Wireless communication is susceptible to adversarial eavesdropping due to the broadcast nature of the wireless medium. In this paper it is shown how eavesdropping can be alleviated by exploiting the superposition property of the wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xiaojun Tang , Ruoheng Liu , Predrag Spasojevic , H. Vincent Poor

Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the most fast-growing field in high technologies nowadays. Therefore, lots of electronic devices include wireless connections with several communication protocols (WiFi, ZigBee, Sigfox, LoRa and so on).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Guillaume Fournier , Pierre Matoussowsky , Pascal Cotret

Traditional global positioning systems often underperform indoors, whereas Wi-Fi has become an effective medium for various radio sensing services. Specifically, utilizing channel state information (CSI) from Wi-Fi networks provides a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-04 Pei Tang , Jingtao Guo , Ivan Wang-Hei Ho

WiFi-based device localization is a key enabling technology for smart applications, which has attracted numerous research studies in the past decade. Most of the existing approaches rely on Line-of-Sight (LoS) signals to work, while a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Yimiao Sun , Yuan He , Jiacheng Zhang , Xin Na , Yande Chen , Weiguo Wang , Xiuzhen Guo

Privacy issues related to video camera feeds have led to a growing need for suitable alternatives that provide functionalities such as user authentication, activity classification and tracking in a noninvasive manner. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Vinoj Jayasundara , Hirunima Jayasekara , Tharaka Samarasinghe , Kasun T. Hemachandra

Contact tracing is a well-established and effective approach for the containment of the spread of infectious diseases. While Bluetooth-based contact tracing method using phones has become popular recently, these approaches suffer from the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Amee Trivedi , Camellia Zakaria , Rajesh Balan , Prashant Shenoy

Wireless communications are particularly vulnerable to eavesdropping attacks due to their broadcast nature. To effectively deal with eavesdroppers, existing security techniques usually require accurate channel state information (CSI), e.g.,…

Comparing to well protected data frames, Wi-Fi management frames (MFs) are extremely vulnerable to various attacks. Since MFs are transmitted without encryption, attackers can forge them easily. Such attacks can be detected in cooperative…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Zhiping Jiang , Jizhong Zhao , Xiang-Yang Li , JinSong Han , Wei Xi

The lack of adequate training data is one of the major hurdles in WiFi-based activity recognition systems. In this paper, we propose Wi-Fringe, which is a WiFi CSI-based device-free human gesture recognition system that recognizes named…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-20 Md Tamzeed Islam , Shahriar Nirjon

We present DeepCSI, a novel approach to Wi-Fi radio fingerprinting (RFP) which leverages standard-compliant beamforming feedback matrices to authenticate MU-MIMO Wi-Fi devices on the move. By capturing unique imperfections in off-the-shelf…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Francesca Meneghello , Michele Rossi , Francesco Restuccia

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

Generating keys and keeping them secret is critical in secure communications. Due to the "open-air" nature, key distribution is more susceptible to attacks in wireless communications. An ingenious solution is to generate common secret keys…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-06 Jizhong Zhao , Wei Xi , Jinsong Han , Shaojie Tang , Xiangyang Li , Yunhao Liu , Yihong Gong , Zehua Zhou

Wi-Fi sensing is an emerging technology that uses channel state information (CSI) from ambient Wi-Fi signals to monitor human activity without the need for dedicated sensors. Wi-Fi sensing does not only represent a pivotal technology in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Paolo Cerutti , Fabio Palmese , Marco Cominelli , Alessandro E. C. Redondi

Eavesdropping from the user's smartphone is a well-known threat to the user's safety and privacy. Existing studies show that loudspeaker reverberation can inject speech into motion sensor readings, leading to speech eavesdropping. While…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad , Cong Shi , Zhengkun Ye , Tianming Zhao , Yan Wang , Yingying Chen , Nitesh Saxena

Due to the openness of the wireless medium, smartphone users are susceptible to user privacy attacks, where user privacy information is inferred from encrypted Wi-Fi wireless traffic. Existing attacks are limited to recognizing mobile apps…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Yong Huang , Zhibo Dong , Xiaoguang Yang , Dalong Zhang , Qingxian Wang , Zhihua Wang
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