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Thanks to the ubiquitousness of Wi-Fi access points and devices, Wi-Fi sensing enables transformative applications in remote health care, security, and surveillance. Existing work has explored the usage of machine learning on channel state…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Niloofar Bahadori , Jonathan Ashdown , Francesco Restuccia

Emerging ultra-low-power tiny scale computing devices in Cyber-Physical Systems %and Internet of Things (IoT) run on harvested energy, are intermittently powered, have limited computational capability, and perform sensing and actuation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Yang Su , Michael Chesser , Yansong Gao , Alanson P. Sample , Damith C. Ranasinghe

Development and testing of multi-robot systems employing wireless signal-based sensing requires access to suitable hardware, such as channel monitoring WiFi transceivers, which can pose significant limitations. The WiFi Sensor for Robotics…

This paper introduces CSI-RFF, a new framework that leverages micro-signals embedded within Channel State Information (CSI) curves to realize Radio-Frequency Fingerprinting of commodity off-the-shelf (COTS) WiFi devices for open-set…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-27 Ruiqi Kong , He Chen

Wi-Fi sensing has become an attractive option for non-invasive monitoring of human activities and vital signs. This paper explores the feasibility of using state-of-the-art commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) devices for Wi-Fi sensing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jiuyu Liu , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli

Wi-Fi contact-free sensing systems have attracted widespread attention due to their ubiquity and convenience. The integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) technology utilizes off-the-shelf Wi-Fi communication signals for sensing, which…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Yiming Zhao , Xuanqi Meng , Xinyu Tong , Xiulong Liu , Xin Xie , Wenyu Qu

Detecting whether a target crosses the given zone (e.g., a door) can enable various practical applications in smart homes, including intelligent security and people counting. The traditional infrared-based approach only covers a line and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Weiyan Shi , Xuanzhi Wang , Kai Niu , Leye Wang , Daqing Zhang

Wireless signal-based human sensing technologies, such as WiFi, millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar, and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), enable the detection and interpretation of human presence, posture, and activities, thereby providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Zhenkui Yang , Zeyi Huang , Ge Wang , Han Ding , Tony Xiao Han , Fei Wang

WiFi sensing technology has shown superiority in smart homes among various sensors for its cost-effective and privacy-preserving merits. It is empowered by Channel State Information (CSI) extracted from WiFi signals and advanced machine…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Jianfei Yang , Xinyan Chen , Han Zou , Dazhuo Wang , Lihua Xie

The proliferation of sensitive information being stored online highlights the pressing need for secure and efficient user authentication methods. To address this issue, this paper presents a novel zero-effort two-factor authentication (2FA)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Ali Abdullah S. AlQahtani , Thamraa Alshayeb

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

Secure communication over a memoryless wiretap channel in the presence of a passive eavesdropper is considered. Traditional information-theoretic security methods require an advantage for the main channel over the eavesdropper channel to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-11-18 Azadeh Sheikholeslami , Dennis Goeckel , Hossein Pishro-Nik

Probe requests help mobile devices discover active Wi-Fi networks. They often contain a multitude of data that can be used to identify and track devices and thereby their users. The past years have been a cat-and-mouse game of improving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Johanna Ansohn McDougall , Christian Burkert , Daniel Demmler , Monina Schwarz , Vincent Hubbe , Hannes Federrath

Wi-Fi sensing has emerged as a powerful non-intrusive technology for recognizing human activities, monitoring vital signs, and enabling context-aware applications using commercial wireless devices. However, the performance of Wi-Fi sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Fei Wang , Tingting Zhang , Wei Xi , Han Ding , Ge Wang , Di Zhang , Yuanhao Cui , Fan Liu , Jinsong Han , Jie Xu , Tony Xiao Han

Security against eavesdropping is one of the key concerns in the design of any communication system. Many common considerations of the security of a wireless communication channel rely on comparing the signal level measured by Bob (the…

This paper proposes passive WiFi indoor localization. Instead of using WiFi signals received by mobile devices as fingerprints, we use signals received by routers to locate the mobile carrier. Consequently, software installation on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Minh Tu Hoang , Brosnan Yuen , Kai Ren , Ahmed Elmoogy , Xiaodai Dong , Tao Lu , Hung Le Nguyen Robert Westendorp , Kishore Reddy Tarimala

Nowadays smartphones come embedded with multiple motion sensors, such as an accelerometer, a gyroscope and an orientation sensor. With these sensors, apps can gather more information and therefore provide end users with more functionality.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Yihang Song , Madhur Kukreti , Rahul Rawat , Urs Hengartner

Eavesdropping on sounds emitted by mobile device loudspeakers can capture sensitive digital information, such as SMS verification codes, credit card numbers, and withdrawal passwords, which poses significant security risks. Existing schemes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yangyang Gu , Xianglong Li , Haolin Wu , Jing Chen , Kun He , Ruiying Du , Cong Wu

Gesture tracking technology provides users with a hands free interactive experience without the need to hold or touch devices. However, current gesture tracking research has primarily focused on tracking accuracy while neglecting issues of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Bojun Zhang

The rapid growth of electric vehicles (EVs) has driven the development of roadway wireless charging technology, effectively extending EV driving range. However, wireless charging introduces significant cybersecurity challenges. Any receiver…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Hui Wang , Hans D. Schotten , Stefan M. Goetz