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The idea of exploiting the Wi-Fi bursts as the medium for sensing purposes, particularly for the human targets in the indoor environment, was cultivated in both radar and computer science communities and it has became a noticeable research…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-11 Bo Tan , Bo Sun

Physical layer authentication relies on detecting unique imperfections in signals transmitted by radio devices to isolate their fingerprint. Recently, deep learning-based authenticators have increasingly been proposed to classify devices…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Samurdhi Karunaratne , Enes Krijestorac , Danijela Cabric

In this paper, we study the problem of physical layer security in large-scale multiple input multiple output (LS-MIMO) systems. The large number of antenna elements in LS-MIMO system is exploited to enhance transmission security and improve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-29 Xiaoming Chen , Chau Yuen , Zhaoyang Zhang

In this paper, we study multibeam satellite secure communication through physical (PHY) layer security techniques, i.e., joint power control and beamforming. By first assuming that the Channel State Information (CSI) is available and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Jiang Lei , Zhu Han , M. A. Vázquez-Castro , Are Hjørungnes

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

Recently, Wi-Fi has caught tremendous attention for its ubiquity, and, motivated by Wi-Fi's low cost and privacy preservation, researchers have been putting lots of investigation into its potential on action recognition and even person…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Jen-Yin Chang , Kuan-Ying Lee , Yu-Lin Wei , Kate Ching-Ju Lin , Winston Hsu

The robust beamforming design in multi-functional reconfigurable intelligent surface (MF-RIS) assisted wireless networks is investigated in this work, where the MF-RIS supports signal reflection, refraction, and amplification to address the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Ailing Zheng , Wanli Ni , Wen Wang , Hui Tian , Chau Yuen

Existing Wi-Fi sensing systems rely on injecting high-rate probing packets to extract channel state information (CSI), leading to communication degradation and poor deployability. Although Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) is a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Gaofeng Dong , Kang Yang , Mani Srivastava

Deep learning-based channel state information (CSI) feedback schemes demonstrate strong compression capabilities but are typically constrained to fixed system configurations, limiting their generalization and flexibility. To address this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-08 Xuanyu Liu , Shijian Gao , Boxun Liu , Xiang Cheng , Liuqing Yang

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

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

Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) is becoming increasingly popular, especially in applications with constrained power, such as the Internet of Things (IoT). Due to subtle manufacturing variations, wireless devices have…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-11 Lu Yang , Seyit Camtepe , Yansong Gao , Vicky Liu , Dhammika Jayalath

Person re-identification (ReID), as a crucial technology in the field of security, plays an important role in security detection and people counting. Current security and monitoring systems largely rely on visual information, which may…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Chen Mao , Chong Tan , Jingqi Hu , Min Zheng

Beamforming is a widely used method of provisioning high quality wireless channels that leads to high data rates and simple decoding structures. It requires feedback of Channel State Information (CSI) from receiver to transmitter, and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-02 Yiyue Wu , Andreas Achtzehn , Marina Petrova , Petri Mahonen , Robert Calderbank

iBeacon protocol is widely deployed to provide location-based services. By receiving its BLE advertisements, nearby devices can estimate the proximity to the iBeacon or calculate indoor positions. However, the open nature of these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Xin Na , Xiuzhen Guo , Yuan He , Rui Xi

We consider a robust beamforming problem where large amount of downlink (DL) channel state information (CSI) data available at a multiple antenna access point (AP) is used to improve the link quality to a user equipment (UE) for beyond-5G…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Sai Subramanyam Thoota , Joao Vieira , Erik G. Larsson

Coordinated beamforming (Co-BF) is a key multi-access-point coordination (MAPC) technique for dense Wi-Fi deployments, but its performance can be hindered by the large channel state information (CSI) feedback required through channel…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Ibrahim Aboushehada , Boris Bellalta , Giovanni Geraci , Lorenzo Galati Giordano

Channel adaptive signalling, which is based on feedback, can result in almost any performance metric enhancement. Unlike the radio frequency (RF) channel, the optical wireless communications (OWCs) channel is fairly static. This feature…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Mohammad Dehghani Soltani , Xiping Wu , Majid Safari , Harald Haas

The wireless medium contains domain-specific information that can be used to complement and enhance traditional security mechanisms. In this paper we propose ways to exploit the fact that, in a typically rich scattering environment, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-07-29 Liang Xiao , Larry Greenstein , Narayan Mandayam , Wade Trappe

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…