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The potentials of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) are all based on the available instantaneous channel state information (CSI) at the base station (BS). Therefore, the user in frequency-division duplexing (FDD) systems has to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Jiajia Guo , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin

The proliferation of surveillance cameras has greatly improved the physical security of many security-critical properties including buildings, stores, and homes. However, recent surveillance camera looping attacks demonstrate new security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Nitya Lakshmanan , Inkyu Bang , Min Suk Kang , Jun Han , Jong Taek Lee

The Internet of Things (IoT) is ubiquitous thanks to the rapid development of wireless technologies. However, the broadcast nature of wireless transmissions results in great vulnerability to device authentication. Physical layer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yijia Guo , Junqing Zhang , Y. -W. Peter Hong

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

In intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided wireless communication systems, channel state information (CSI) is crucial to achieve its promising passive beamforming gains. However, CSI errors are inevitable in practice and generally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Ming-Min Zhao , An Liu , Rui Zhang

This work focuses on the synergy of physical layer covert transmission and millimeter wave (mmWave) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) to improve the performance, and enable secure internet of things (IoT) systems. Specifically, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Lingyun Xu , Bowen Wang , Ziyang Cheng

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

Accurate channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter is critical for maximizing spectral efficiency on the downlink of multi-antenna networks. In this work we analyze a novel form of physical layer attacks on such closed-loop…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-25 Amitav Mukherjee , A. Lee Swindlehurst

In this paper, we consider a multi-antenna system where the receiver should harvest energy from the transmitter by wireless energy transfer to support its wireless information transmission. In order to maximize the harvesting energy, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-25 Xiaoming Chen , Chau Yuen , Zhaoyang Zhang

Static and hard-coded layer-two network identifiers are well known to present security vulnerabilities and endanger user privacy. In this work, we introduce a new privacy attack against Wi-Fi access points listed on secondhand marketplaces.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Steven Su , Erik Rye , Dave Levin , Robert Beverly

Base station cooperation improves the sum-rates that can be achieved in cellular systems. Conventional cooperation techniques require sharing large amounts of information over finite-capacity backhaul links and assume that base stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-12-08 Ramya Bhagavatula , Robert W. Heath

Wi-Fi sensing has emerged as a versatile tool for tasks such as localization, gesture recognition, and vital-sign monitoring, enabling applications from smart environments to personalized healthcare. However, sensing accuracy often…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Fabian Portner , Francesco Gringoli , Matthias Hollick , Arash Asadi

Channel state information (CSI) feedback is necessary for the frequency division duplexing (FDD) multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems due to the channel non-reciprocity. With the help of deep learning, many works have succeeded in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Zhilin Lu , Xudong Zhang , Rui Zeng , Jintao Wang

Compressed beamforming algorithm is used in the current Wi-Fi standard to reduce the beamforming feedback overhead (BFO). However, with each new amendment of the standard the number of supported antennas in Wi-Fi devices increases, leading…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-08 Mrugen Deshmukh , Zinan Lin , Hanqing Lou , Mahmoud Kamel , Rui Yang , Ismail Guvenc

Feedback of quantized channel state information (CSI), called limited feedback, enables transmit beamforming in multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems with a small amount of overhead. Due to its efficiency, beamforming with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-05-05 Kaibin Huang , Robert W. Heath , Jeffrey G. Andrews

The pinching-antenna system (PASS) introduces new degrees of freedom (DoFs) for physical layer security (PLS) through pinching beamforming. In this paper, a couple of scenarios for secure beamforming for PASS are studied. 1) For the case…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-04 Mingjun Sun , Chongjun Ouyang , Shaochuan Wu , Yuanwei Liu

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

To determine the transmission strategy for joint wireless information and energy transfer (JWIET) in the MIMO interference channel (IFC), the information access point (IAP) and energy access point (EAP) require the channel state information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-13 Jaehyun Park , Bruno Clerckx

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

Channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter is of importance to the performance of physical layer security based on multi-antenna networks. Specifically, CSI is not only beneficial to improve the capacity of the legitimate channel,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xiaoming Chen , Rui Yin