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Enabling WiFi Sensing on New-generation WiFi Cards

Published: 12 January 2024 Publication History

Abstract

The last few years have witnessed the rapid development of WiFi sensing with a large spectrum of applications enabled. However, existing works mainly leverage the obsolete 802.11n WiFi cards (i.e., Intel 5300 and Atheros AR9k series cards) for sensing. On the other hand, the mainstream WiFi protocols currently in use are 802.11ac/ax and commodity WiFi products on the market are equipped with new-generation WiFi chips such as Broadcom BCM43794 and Qualcomm QCN5054. After conducting some benchmark experiments, we find that WiFi sensing has problems working on these new cards. The new communication features (e.g., MU-MIMO) designed to facilitate data transmissions negatively impact WiFi sensing. Conventional CSI base signals such as CSI amplitude and/or CSI phase difference between antennas which worked well on Intel 5300 802.11n WiFi card may fail on new cards. In this paper, we propose delicate signal processing schemes to make wireless sensing work well on these new WiFi cards. We employ two typical sensing applications, i.e., human respiration monitoring and human trajectory tracking to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed schemes. We believe it is critical to ensure WiFi sensing compatible with the latest WiFi protocols and this work moves one important step towards real-life adoption of WiFi sensing.

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Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies  Volume 7, Issue 4
December 2023
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