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With the popularity of wireless charging, energy access protection and cybersecurity are gaining importance, especially in public places. Currently, the most common energy encryption method uses frequency and associated impedance variation.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Hui Wang , Nima Tashakor , Xiaoyang Tian , Hans D. Schotten , Stefan M. Goetz

WiFi technology has been applied to various places due to the increasing requirement of high-speed Internet access. Recently, besides network services, WiFi sensing is appealing in smart homes since it is device-free, cost-effective and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Jianfei Yang , Xinyan Chen , Han Zou , Dazhuo Wang , Qianwen Xu , Lihua Xie

Wi-Fi sensing can classify human activities because each activity causes unique changes to the channel state information (CSI). Existing WiFi sensing suffers from limited scalability as the system needs to be retrained whenever new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-07 Guolin Yin , Junqing Zhang , Guanxiong Shen , Yingying Chen

With the rapid evolution of wireless technologies, Wi-Fi has expanded beyond its original role in data transmission to support various emerging applications, particularly in physical-layer security, including device authentication, user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Jingzhe Zhang , Yitong Shen , Ning Wang , Yili Ren

Wi-Fi Channel State Information (CSI) has been extensively studied for sensing activities. However, its practical application in user authentication still needs to be explored. This study presents a novel approach to biometric…

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

Silent speech interfaces (SSIs) enable silent interaction in noise-sensitive or privacy-sensitive settings. However, existing SSIs face practical deployment trade-offs among privacy, user experience, and energy consumption, and most remain…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ye Tian , Haohua Du , Chao Gu , Junyang Zhang , Shanyue Wang , Hao Zhou , Jiahui Hou , Xiang-Yang Li

Due to the severe multipath effect, no satisfactory device-free methods have ever been found for indoor speed estimation problem, especially in non-line-of-sight scenarios, where the direct path between the source and observer is blocked.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-11 Feng Zhang , Chen Chen , Beibei Wang , K. J. Ray Liu

Smartphone motion sensors provide a concealed mechanism for eavesdropping on acoustic information, like touchtones, emitted by a device. Eavesdropping on touchtones exposes credit card information, banking pins, and social security card…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Connor Bolton , Yan Long , Jun Han , Josiah Hester , Kevin Fu

Secure communication over a wiretap channel is considered in the disadvantaged wireless environment, where the eavesdropper channel is (possibly much) better than the main channel. We present a method to exploit inherent vulnerabilities of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-05-12 Azadeh Sheikholeslami , Dennis Goeckel , Hossein Pishro-Nik

Conventional wireless security assumes wireless communications are rightful and aims to protect them against malicious eavesdropping and jamming attacks. However, emerging infrastructure-free mobile communication networks are likely to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-26 Jie Xu , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

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

Passkeys have recently emerged as a passwordless authentication mechanism, yet their usability in captive portals remains unexplored. This paper presents an empirical, comparative usability study of passkeys and passwords in a Wi-Fi hotspot…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Martiño Rivera-Dourado , Rubén Pérez-Jove , Alejandro Pazos , Jose Vázquez-Naya

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

Wireless communication is susceptible to eavesdropping attacks because of its broadcast nature. This paper illustrates how interference can be used to counter eavesdropping and assist secrecy. In particular, a wire-tap channel with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Xiaojun Tang , Ruoheng Liu , Predrag Spasojevic , H. Vincent Poor

The intrinsic hardware imperfection of WiFi chipsets manifests itself in the transmitted signal, leading to a unique radiometric fingerprint. This fingerprint can be used as an additional means of authentication to enhance security. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Luis F. Abanto-Leon , Andreas Baeuml , Gek Hong , Sim , Matthias Hollick , Arash Asadi

A shared secret key is necessary for encrypted communications. Since Wi-Fi relies on OFDM, we suggest a method to generate such a key by utilizing Wi-Fi's channel state information (CSI). CSI is typically reciprocal but very sensitive to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Tomer Avrahami , Ofer Amrani , Avishai Wool

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

Human pose estimation is fundamental to intelligent perception in the Internet of Things (IoT), enabling applications ranging from smart healthcare to human-computer interaction. While WiFi-based methods have gained traction, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yi Dao , Lankai Zhang , Hao Liu , Haiwei Zhang , Wenbo Wang

Sleep deprivation is a public health concern that significantly impacts one's well-being and performance. Sleep is an intimate experience, and state-of-the-art sleep monitoring solutions are highly-personalized to individual users. With a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Priyanka Mary Mammen , Camellia Zakaria , Tergel Molom-Ochir , Amee Trivedi , Prashant Shenoy , Rajesh Balan