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Volume 20, Number 1, February 2015
Sensorless Sensing with WiFi
Zimu Zhou, Chenshu Wu, Zheng Yang , and Yunhao Liu
Abstract: Can WiFi signals be used for sensing purpose? The growing PHY layer capabilities of WiFi has made
it possible to reuse WiFi signals for both communication and sensing. Sensing via WiFi would enable remote
sensing without wearable sensors, simultaneous perception and data transmission without extra communication
infrastructure, and contactless sensing in privacy-preserving mode. Due to the popularity of WiFi devices and the
ubiquitous deployment of WiFi networks, WiFi-based sensing networks, if fully connected, would potentially rank as
one of the world’s largest wireless sensor networks. Yet the concept of wireless and sensorless sensing is not the
simple combination of WiFi and radar. It seeks breakthroughs from dedicated radar systems, and aims to balance
between low cost and high accuracy, to meet the rising demand for pervasive environment perception in everyday
life. Despite increasing research interest, wireless sensing is still in its infancy. Through introductions on basic
principles and working prototypes, we review the feasibilities and limitations of wireless, sensorless, and contactless
sensing via WiFi. We envision this article as a brief primer on wireless sensing for interested readers to explore this
open and largely unexplored field and create next-generation wireless and mobile computing applications.
Key words: Channel State Information (CSI); sensorless sensing; WiFi; indoor localization; device-free human
detection; activity recognition; wireless networks; ubiquitous computing
1 Introduction
Technological advances have extended the role of
wireless signals from a sole communication medium to
a contactless sensing platform, especially indoors. In
indoor environments, wireless signals often propagate
via both the direct path and multiple reflection
and scattering paths, resulting in multiple aliased
signals superposing at the receiver. As the physical
space constrains the propagation of wireless signals,
the wireless signals in turn convey information that
characterizes the environment they pass through. Herein
the environment refers to the physical space where
Zimu Zhou, Chenshu Wu, Zheng Yang, and Yunhao Liu are
with School of Software and TNList, Tsinghua University,
Beijing 100084, China. E-mail: fzhouzimu, wu, yang,
yunhaog@greenorbs.com.
To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Manuscript received: 2014-12-05; accepted: 2014-12-28
wireless signals propagate, which includes both
ambient objects (e.g., walls and furniture) and humans
(e.g., their locations and postures). As shown in Fig. 1,
sensorless sensing with WiFi infers the surrounding
environments by analyzing received WiFi signals, with
increasing levels of sensing contexts.
It is not a brand-new concept to exploit wireless
signals for contactless environment sensing. Aircraft
radar systems, as a representative, detect the presence
of outdoor aircrafts and determine their range, type,
and other information by analyzing either the wireless
signals emitted by the aircrafts themselves or those
broadcast by the radar transmitters and reflected by the
aircrafts afterwards. Recent research has also explored
Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) signals for indoor radar
systems[1]
. Primarily designed for military context,
however, these techniques either rely on dedicated
hardware or extremely wide bandwidth to obtain high
time resolution and accurate range measurements,
impeding their pervasive deployment in daily life.
2 Tsinghua Science and Technology, February 2015, 20(1): 1-6
Fig. 1 Illustration of setups and sensing tasks for wireless sensing in multipath propagation environments.
On the other hand, contactless sensing technology is
of rising demand in our everyday world. For instance,
passive human detection has raised extensive research
interest in the past decade[2–5]
. By Passive (also termed
as device-free or non-invasive), it refers to detecting
users via wireless signals, while the users carry no
radio-enabled devices[2]
. Such contactless and privacy-
preserving mode can stimulate various applications
including security surveillance, intrusion detection,
elderly monitoring, remote health-care, and innovative
human-computer interaction.
One solution to passive human detection is to deploy
extra sensors like UWB radar systems. Yet a more
attractive alternative is to reuse the ubiquitous WiFi
infrastructure for pervasive, cost-effective, and easy-to-
use passive human sensing. Such WiFi-based sensing
is challenging in two aspects: Standard WiFi signals
have limited bandwidth and insufficient time resolution
compared with dedicated radar signals; commercial
WiFi hardware often fails to support sophisticated radar
signal processing. It is thus urgent to break away
from traditional radar systems and develop theory and
technology for high-resolution wireless sensing with
off-the-shelf WiFi infrastructure.
Although neither WiFi nor radar alone yields
new concepts, their combination sparks interesting
innovations in mobile computing. Pioneer researchers
have termed this largely unexplored field as Wireless
Sensing, Sensorless Sensing or Radio Tomography
Imaging[3]
, and we will use wireless sensing and
sensorless sensing throughout this paper. In this paper,
we reviewed the emergence of wireless, sensorless, and
contactless sensing via WiFi. We focus on the principles
and the infrastructure advances that enable wireless and
sensorless sensing on commodity devices. Over the past
five years researchers have developed a series of WiFi-
based contactless sensing prototypes with increasing
functionalities[6–10]
and we expect wireless, sensorless,
and contactless sensing to leap towards industrial
products in the coming few years.
2 From Received Signal Strength (RSS) to
Channel State Information (CSI)
How can we infer environment information from
wireless signals? As a toy example, weak WiFi
signal strength may indicate long distance from the
access point. Though intuitive, RSS is widely used
to infer environment information such as propagation
distances. The past two decades have witnessed
various sensing applications using RSS, with RSS-
based localization as the most representative.
2.1 Received signal strength
RSS acts as a common proxy for channel quality and
is accessible in numerous wireless communication
technologies including RFID, GSM, WiFi, and
Bluetooth. Researchers also utilize RSS for sensing,
such as indoor localization and passive human
detection. In theory, it is feasible to substitute RSS
into propagation models to estimate propagation
distance, or take a set of RSS from multiple access
points as fingerprints for each location, or infer human
motions from RSS fluctuations. However, in typical
indoor environments, wireless signals often propagate
via multiple paths, a phenomenon called multipath
propagation. In presence of multipath propagation,
RSS may no longer decrease monotonically
with propagation distance, thus limiting ranging
accuracy. Multipath propagation can also lead to
unpredictable RSS fluctuations. Studies showed that
RSS can fluctuate up to 5 dB in one minute even
for a static link[11]
. Such multipath-induced RSS
fluctuation may cause false match in fingerprint-based
localization. Since RSS is single-valued, it fails to
depict multipath propagation, making it less robust and
reliable. Hence RSS-based sensing applications often
resort to dense deployed wireless links to avoid the
impact of multipath via redundancy[3]
.
Zimu Zhou et al.: Sensorless Sensing with WiFi 3
2.2 Channel state information
Since RSS is only a MAC layer feature, recent efforts
have dived into the PHY layer to combat the impact
of multipath. Multipath propagation can be depicted
by Channel Impulse Response (CIR). Under the time-
invariant assumption, CIR can be modeled as a temporal
linear filter:
h. / D
NX
iD1
ai e jÂi ı . i / (1)
where ai , Âi , and i denote the amplitude, phase, and
delay of the i-th path. N is the number of paths and
ı. / is the Dirac delta function. Each impulse represents
a propagation path resolvable by time delays. Multipath
propagation also leads to constructive and destructive
phase superposition, which exhibits frequency-selective
fading. Therefore multipath propagation can also be
characterized by Channel Frequency Response (CFR),
the Fourier transform of CIR given infinite bandwidth.
Obtaining high-resolution CIR or CFR often involves
dedicated channel sounders. Yet the physical layer
of WiFi, especially Orthogonal Frequency Division
Multiplex (OFDM) based WiFi standards (e.g., IEEE
802.11a/g/n), offers a sampled CFR at the granularity
of subcarriers. With only slight firmware modification
and commercial WiFi network interface cards[12]
, these
sampled versions of CFR measurements can be revealed
to upper layers in the format of CSI. Each CSI estimates
the amplitude and phase of one OFDM subcarrier:
H.fk/ D kH.fk/kej †H
(2)
where H.fk/ is the CSI at the subcarrier of central
frequency fk, amplitude kH.fk/k, and phase †H.
2.3 RSS vs. CSI
Compared with RSS, CSI is able to depict multipath
propagation to certain extent, making it an upgrade
for RSS. Analogously speaking, CSI is to RSS what
a rainbow is to a sunbeam. As shown in Fig. 2, CSI
Fig. 2 An analogous illustration of RSS and CSI.
separates signals of different wavelengths via OFDM,
while RSS only provides a single-valued amplitude
of superposed paths. As physical layer information,
CSI conveys channel information invisible in MAC
layer RSS. On one hand, CSI estimates CFR on
multiple subcarriers, thus depicting the frequency-
selective fading of WiFi channels. On the other hand,
CSI measures not only the amplitude of each subcarrier,
but its phase as well. Thus CSI provides richer channel
information in the frequency domain. Since CIR is the
inverse Fourier transform of CFR, CSI also enables
coarse-grained path distinction in the time domain.
CSI brings more than richer information. With proper
processing, CSI can exhibit site-specific patterns in
different environments, while retaining stable overall
structure in the same environment. Hence we may
extract finer-grained and more robust signal features
from CSI via machine learning and signal processing,
rather than obtain only a single value by simply
adding up the amplitudes over subcarriers (a similar
processing approach as RSS). Although currently CSI
is only accessible on certain platforms, the continuing
popularity of WiFi and its ubiquitous deployment still
make CSI a relatively pervasive signal feature.
However, the resolution of CSI is limited by the
operating bandwidth of WiFi. Even with a bandwidth
of 40 MHz (IEEE 802.11n with channel bounding),
its time resolution still fails to distinguish individual
paths. We envision WiFi standards with increasingly
wider bandwidth (e.g., IEEE 802.11ac) would provide
finer-grained multipath propagation information in
future.
3 Sensorless Sensing via WiFi
How does CSI benefit wireless sensing? As an upgrade
for RSS, it is natural to adopt CSI to boost performance
of RSS-based sensing applications. For instance, in
RSS-based localization, RSS can be used as either
a location-specific fingerprint or to calculate the
distance between the mobile client and the access
point. Similarly, CSI can be employed as a finer-
grained fingerprint as it carries both amplitude and
phase information across subcarriers; or for more
accurate ranging by accounting for frequency-selective
fading. Here we refer interested readers to Ref. [13] for
a more comprehensive overview on CSI-based indoor
localization. To sum up, RSS-based applications often
4 Tsinghua Science and Technology, February 2015, 20(1): 1-6
consider multipath harmful, since RSS is unable to
resolve multipath propagation and suffers unpredictable
fluctuation in dense multipath propagation. In contrast,
CSI manages to resolve multipath effect at subcarrier
level. Though coarse-grained, CSI offers opportunities
to harness multipath in wireless sensing applications.
3.1 Sensing the environment
In multipath environments, propagation paths can be
broadly classified into Line-Of-Sight (LOS) and Non-
Line-Of-Sight (NLOS) paths, where NLOS paths often
pose major challenges for wireless communication
and mobile computing applications. Severe NLOS
propagation may deteriorate communication
quality and degrade theoretical signal propagation
models. A prerequisite to avoid the impact of NLOS
propagation is to identify the availability of the LOS
path. Since CSI depicts multipath at the granularity
of subcarriers, researchers have explored CSI for
LOS identification[14, 15]
. Zhou et al.[14]
extracted
statistical features from CSI amplitudes in both the
time and frequency domains, and leveraged receiver
mobility to distinguish LOS and NLOS paths based
on their difference in spatial stability. Wu et al.[15]
utilized CSI phases of multiple antennas for real-
time LOS identification for both static and mobile
scenarios[15]
. Phase information offers an orthogonal
dimension to traditional amplitude-based features,
and has been successfully adopted in a range of
applications, e.g., millimeter-level localization[16]
.
Another concrete environment characteristic is the
shape and the size of rooms and corridors, which
make up part of the floor plan. Floor plan is
often assumed to be offered by service providers
and researchers have shown increasing interest to
draw floor plans by combining wireless and inertial
sensing. Some works also demonstrated the feasibility
of using wireless sensing alone to recover part of the
floor plan information. For instance, Wang et al.[17]
distinguished straight pathways, right-angle, and arc
corners by analyzing the difference in the trend of
CSI changing rates when the WiFi device moves. With
channel measurements on multiple receiving antennas,
the authors in Ref. [18] developed a space scanning
scheme by calculating the angle-of-arrivals of multiple
propagation paths and inferring the locations of the
reflecting walls. Despite its bulky size, the working
prototype holds promise for scanning the physical space
wirelessly and contactlessly.
3.2 Sensing humans
Humans, as part of the environments wireless signals
propagate within, are of utmost interest in wireless
sensing. In passive human detection, CSI can detect tiny
human-induced variations from both LOS and NLOS
paths, thereby enhancing detection sensitivity and
expanding sensing coverage. Zhou et al.[4]
utilized CSI
as finer-grained fingerprints to achieve omnidirectional
passive human detection on a single transmitter-receiver
link, where the user approaching the receiver from
all directions can be detected. With fusion of multiple
links, CSI also facilitates fine-grained passive human
localization[19]
. Xi et al.[5]
extended human detection to
multi-user scenarios by correlating the variation of CSI
to the number of humans nearby for device-free crowd
counting.
Pioneer research has marched beyond detecting
simply the presence of humans. On the one hand,
CSI-based wireless sensing shifts from locating users in
the physical coordinates to offering more context-aware
information. Some work demonstrated the feasibility
of general-purposed daily activity recognition by using
CSI as fingerprints for the hybrid of locations and
activity patterns[7]
. Others targeted at more concrete
scenarios, e.g., fall detection[20]
, adopting similar
principles with scenario-tailored optimization. On the
other hand, ambitious CSI-based sensing applications
strive to detect micro body-part motions at increasingly
finer granularity. Some reported over 90% accuracy
of distinguishing multiple whole-body[6]
and body-
part gestures[9]
, while others claimed accurate breath
detection[10]
or even lips reading[8]
. Nevertheless,
researchers have reached no concursus on to what extent
of motion granularity and variety is CSI capable of
distinguishing in practice.
3.3 One leap further: WiFi radar
Over the past five years, CSI has spawned various
applications and its application scenarios continue to
expand. As an upgrade for RSS, it is natural to
improve performance of some applications simply by
replacing RSS with CSI. CSI also enables various
applications infeasible with RSS alone, such as
gesture recognition, breath detection, and complex
environment sensing. Nevertheless, CSI is not a
panacea, and its improvement in sensing granularity is
still incomparable with radar signals. Some envisioned
Zimu Zhou et al.: Sensorless Sensing with WiFi 5
applications might have already gone beyond the
capability of CSI.
Apart from further exploring and exploiting the
frequency diversity and the phase information of
CSI, researchers also began to identify its limitations
in practice, as well as seek other techniques to
extend CSI-based sensing to general WiFi-based
sensorless sensing or WiFi radar. In Ref. [21],
researchers pointed out via ambiguity function analysis
that the range resolution of WiFi-compatible passive
bistatic radars can only reach meters, which is
fundamentally constrained by the bandwidth of
WiFi signals. To overcome this intrinsic constraint,
researchers alternatively incorporate Multi-Input-Multi-
Output (MIMO) technology. Researchers in Ref. [22]
exploited antenna cancellation techniques to eliminate
the impact of static clutters to enable through-wall
sensing of human movements. In Ref. [23], the authors
achieved computational imaging using WiFi, and built
a MIMO-based prototype on software defined radio
platforms. They experimentally demonstrated that the
size, material, and orientation of the target objects can
significantly affect the performance of WiFi imaging,
and a one-fit-all solution is still to be explored.
4 Conclusions
Wireless and sensorless sensing seeks breakthroughs
in the contradiction between the limitation of WiFi
and the growing demand for environment perception in
daily life, seeks a balance between low cost and high
accuracy, explores solutions via frequency diversity
and spatial diversity, and creates applications that are
previously infeasible in wireless communications and
mobile computing. We envision technological advances
would boost the capability of wireless sensing to finer
granularity and higher sensitivity, which will in turn
foster various new applications. This article only serves
as an introduction on the concept of wireless and
sensorless sensing, and we refer interested readers to
the corresponding references for in-depth information.
If we consider WiFi as a side sensor, then WiFi-based
sensorless sensing can be regarded as one of the world’s
largest wireless sensor networks, spreading over office
buildings, shopping malls, other public places and
homes, and silently watching the activities of humans
therein. Living inside such a network, every individual
in the physical world has been bestowed with unique
being in the digital world. So the next time you want
a secret meeting, after shutting the doors, pulling down
the curtains, and even checking for wiretaps beneath the
table, do not forget to turn off the WiFi!
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Zimu Zhou is a PhD candidate in the
Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology. He received his
BEng degree in 2011 from Tsinghua
University. His main research interests
include wireless networks and mobile
computing. He is a student member of
IEEE and ACM.
Chenshu Wu received his BEng degree
from Tsinghua University, China, in
2010. He is now a PhD student in
Department of Computer Science and
Technology, Tsinghua University. He is
a member of Tsinghua National Lab for
Information Science and Technology.
His research interests include wireless
ad-hocnsor networks and pervasive computing. He is a student
member of the IEEE and the ACM.
Zheng Yang received his BEng degree
from Tsinghua University in 2006 and
his PhD degree in computer science from
Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology in 2010. He is currently
an associate researcher in Tsinghua
University. His main research interests
include wireless ad-hoc sensor networks
and mobile computing. He is a member of the IEEE and the
ACM.
Yunhao Liu received his BEng degree
from Tsinghua University in 1995, and
MS and PhD degrees in computer science
and engineering from Michigan State
University in 2003 and 2004, respectively.
Yunhao is now Chang Jiang Chair
Professor and Dean of School of Software
at Tsinghua University, China. Yunhao is
an ACM Distinguished Speaker, and now serves as the Chair of
ACM China Council and also serves as the Associate Editors-
in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed
Systems, and Associate Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on
Networking and ACM Transactions on Sensor Network. He is a
Fellow of IEEE.

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Sensorless sensing with wi fi

  • 1. TSINGHUA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY I S S N l l 1 0 0 7 - 0 2 1 4 l l 0 1 / 1 1 l l p p 1- 6 Volume 20, Number 1, February 2015 Sensorless Sensing with WiFi Zimu Zhou, Chenshu Wu, Zheng Yang , and Yunhao Liu Abstract: Can WiFi signals be used for sensing purpose? The growing PHY layer capabilities of WiFi has made it possible to reuse WiFi signals for both communication and sensing. Sensing via WiFi would enable remote sensing without wearable sensors, simultaneous perception and data transmission without extra communication infrastructure, and contactless sensing in privacy-preserving mode. Due to the popularity of WiFi devices and the ubiquitous deployment of WiFi networks, WiFi-based sensing networks, if fully connected, would potentially rank as one of the world’s largest wireless sensor networks. Yet the concept of wireless and sensorless sensing is not the simple combination of WiFi and radar. It seeks breakthroughs from dedicated radar systems, and aims to balance between low cost and high accuracy, to meet the rising demand for pervasive environment perception in everyday life. Despite increasing research interest, wireless sensing is still in its infancy. Through introductions on basic principles and working prototypes, we review the feasibilities and limitations of wireless, sensorless, and contactless sensing via WiFi. We envision this article as a brief primer on wireless sensing for interested readers to explore this open and largely unexplored field and create next-generation wireless and mobile computing applications. Key words: Channel State Information (CSI); sensorless sensing; WiFi; indoor localization; device-free human detection; activity recognition; wireless networks; ubiquitous computing 1 Introduction Technological advances have extended the role of wireless signals from a sole communication medium to a contactless sensing platform, especially indoors. In indoor environments, wireless signals often propagate via both the direct path and multiple reflection and scattering paths, resulting in multiple aliased signals superposing at the receiver. As the physical space constrains the propagation of wireless signals, the wireless signals in turn convey information that characterizes the environment they pass through. Herein the environment refers to the physical space where Zimu Zhou, Chenshu Wu, Zheng Yang, and Yunhao Liu are with School of Software and TNList, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. E-mail: fzhouzimu, wu, yang, yunhaog@greenorbs.com. To whom correspondence should be addressed. Manuscript received: 2014-12-05; accepted: 2014-12-28 wireless signals propagate, which includes both ambient objects (e.g., walls and furniture) and humans (e.g., their locations and postures). As shown in Fig. 1, sensorless sensing with WiFi infers the surrounding environments by analyzing received WiFi signals, with increasing levels of sensing contexts. It is not a brand-new concept to exploit wireless signals for contactless environment sensing. Aircraft radar systems, as a representative, detect the presence of outdoor aircrafts and determine their range, type, and other information by analyzing either the wireless signals emitted by the aircrafts themselves or those broadcast by the radar transmitters and reflected by the aircrafts afterwards. Recent research has also explored Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) signals for indoor radar systems[1] . Primarily designed for military context, however, these techniques either rely on dedicated hardware or extremely wide bandwidth to obtain high time resolution and accurate range measurements, impeding their pervasive deployment in daily life.
  • 2. 2 Tsinghua Science and Technology, February 2015, 20(1): 1-6 Fig. 1 Illustration of setups and sensing tasks for wireless sensing in multipath propagation environments. On the other hand, contactless sensing technology is of rising demand in our everyday world. For instance, passive human detection has raised extensive research interest in the past decade[2–5] . By Passive (also termed as device-free or non-invasive), it refers to detecting users via wireless signals, while the users carry no radio-enabled devices[2] . Such contactless and privacy- preserving mode can stimulate various applications including security surveillance, intrusion detection, elderly monitoring, remote health-care, and innovative human-computer interaction. One solution to passive human detection is to deploy extra sensors like UWB radar systems. Yet a more attractive alternative is to reuse the ubiquitous WiFi infrastructure for pervasive, cost-effective, and easy-to- use passive human sensing. Such WiFi-based sensing is challenging in two aspects: Standard WiFi signals have limited bandwidth and insufficient time resolution compared with dedicated radar signals; commercial WiFi hardware often fails to support sophisticated radar signal processing. It is thus urgent to break away from traditional radar systems and develop theory and technology for high-resolution wireless sensing with off-the-shelf WiFi infrastructure. Although neither WiFi nor radar alone yields new concepts, their combination sparks interesting innovations in mobile computing. Pioneer researchers have termed this largely unexplored field as Wireless Sensing, Sensorless Sensing or Radio Tomography Imaging[3] , and we will use wireless sensing and sensorless sensing throughout this paper. In this paper, we reviewed the emergence of wireless, sensorless, and contactless sensing via WiFi. We focus on the principles and the infrastructure advances that enable wireless and sensorless sensing on commodity devices. Over the past five years researchers have developed a series of WiFi- based contactless sensing prototypes with increasing functionalities[6–10] and we expect wireless, sensorless, and contactless sensing to leap towards industrial products in the coming few years. 2 From Received Signal Strength (RSS) to Channel State Information (CSI) How can we infer environment information from wireless signals? As a toy example, weak WiFi signal strength may indicate long distance from the access point. Though intuitive, RSS is widely used to infer environment information such as propagation distances. The past two decades have witnessed various sensing applications using RSS, with RSS- based localization as the most representative. 2.1 Received signal strength RSS acts as a common proxy for channel quality and is accessible in numerous wireless communication technologies including RFID, GSM, WiFi, and Bluetooth. Researchers also utilize RSS for sensing, such as indoor localization and passive human detection. In theory, it is feasible to substitute RSS into propagation models to estimate propagation distance, or take a set of RSS from multiple access points as fingerprints for each location, or infer human motions from RSS fluctuations. However, in typical indoor environments, wireless signals often propagate via multiple paths, a phenomenon called multipath propagation. In presence of multipath propagation, RSS may no longer decrease monotonically with propagation distance, thus limiting ranging accuracy. Multipath propagation can also lead to unpredictable RSS fluctuations. Studies showed that RSS can fluctuate up to 5 dB in one minute even for a static link[11] . Such multipath-induced RSS fluctuation may cause false match in fingerprint-based localization. Since RSS is single-valued, it fails to depict multipath propagation, making it less robust and reliable. Hence RSS-based sensing applications often resort to dense deployed wireless links to avoid the impact of multipath via redundancy[3] .
  • 3. Zimu Zhou et al.: Sensorless Sensing with WiFi 3 2.2 Channel state information Since RSS is only a MAC layer feature, recent efforts have dived into the PHY layer to combat the impact of multipath. Multipath propagation can be depicted by Channel Impulse Response (CIR). Under the time- invariant assumption, CIR can be modeled as a temporal linear filter: h. / D NX iD1 ai e jÂi ı . i / (1) where ai , Âi , and i denote the amplitude, phase, and delay of the i-th path. N is the number of paths and ı. / is the Dirac delta function. Each impulse represents a propagation path resolvable by time delays. Multipath propagation also leads to constructive and destructive phase superposition, which exhibits frequency-selective fading. Therefore multipath propagation can also be characterized by Channel Frequency Response (CFR), the Fourier transform of CIR given infinite bandwidth. Obtaining high-resolution CIR or CFR often involves dedicated channel sounders. Yet the physical layer of WiFi, especially Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) based WiFi standards (e.g., IEEE 802.11a/g/n), offers a sampled CFR at the granularity of subcarriers. With only slight firmware modification and commercial WiFi network interface cards[12] , these sampled versions of CFR measurements can be revealed to upper layers in the format of CSI. Each CSI estimates the amplitude and phase of one OFDM subcarrier: H.fk/ D kH.fk/kej †H (2) where H.fk/ is the CSI at the subcarrier of central frequency fk, amplitude kH.fk/k, and phase †H. 2.3 RSS vs. CSI Compared with RSS, CSI is able to depict multipath propagation to certain extent, making it an upgrade for RSS. Analogously speaking, CSI is to RSS what a rainbow is to a sunbeam. As shown in Fig. 2, CSI Fig. 2 An analogous illustration of RSS and CSI. separates signals of different wavelengths via OFDM, while RSS only provides a single-valued amplitude of superposed paths. As physical layer information, CSI conveys channel information invisible in MAC layer RSS. On one hand, CSI estimates CFR on multiple subcarriers, thus depicting the frequency- selective fading of WiFi channels. On the other hand, CSI measures not only the amplitude of each subcarrier, but its phase as well. Thus CSI provides richer channel information in the frequency domain. Since CIR is the inverse Fourier transform of CFR, CSI also enables coarse-grained path distinction in the time domain. CSI brings more than richer information. With proper processing, CSI can exhibit site-specific patterns in different environments, while retaining stable overall structure in the same environment. Hence we may extract finer-grained and more robust signal features from CSI via machine learning and signal processing, rather than obtain only a single value by simply adding up the amplitudes over subcarriers (a similar processing approach as RSS). Although currently CSI is only accessible on certain platforms, the continuing popularity of WiFi and its ubiquitous deployment still make CSI a relatively pervasive signal feature. However, the resolution of CSI is limited by the operating bandwidth of WiFi. Even with a bandwidth of 40 MHz (IEEE 802.11n with channel bounding), its time resolution still fails to distinguish individual paths. We envision WiFi standards with increasingly wider bandwidth (e.g., IEEE 802.11ac) would provide finer-grained multipath propagation information in future. 3 Sensorless Sensing via WiFi How does CSI benefit wireless sensing? As an upgrade for RSS, it is natural to adopt CSI to boost performance of RSS-based sensing applications. For instance, in RSS-based localization, RSS can be used as either a location-specific fingerprint or to calculate the distance between the mobile client and the access point. Similarly, CSI can be employed as a finer- grained fingerprint as it carries both amplitude and phase information across subcarriers; or for more accurate ranging by accounting for frequency-selective fading. Here we refer interested readers to Ref. [13] for a more comprehensive overview on CSI-based indoor localization. To sum up, RSS-based applications often
  • 4. 4 Tsinghua Science and Technology, February 2015, 20(1): 1-6 consider multipath harmful, since RSS is unable to resolve multipath propagation and suffers unpredictable fluctuation in dense multipath propagation. In contrast, CSI manages to resolve multipath effect at subcarrier level. Though coarse-grained, CSI offers opportunities to harness multipath in wireless sensing applications. 3.1 Sensing the environment In multipath environments, propagation paths can be broadly classified into Line-Of-Sight (LOS) and Non- Line-Of-Sight (NLOS) paths, where NLOS paths often pose major challenges for wireless communication and mobile computing applications. Severe NLOS propagation may deteriorate communication quality and degrade theoretical signal propagation models. A prerequisite to avoid the impact of NLOS propagation is to identify the availability of the LOS path. Since CSI depicts multipath at the granularity of subcarriers, researchers have explored CSI for LOS identification[14, 15] . Zhou et al.[14] extracted statistical features from CSI amplitudes in both the time and frequency domains, and leveraged receiver mobility to distinguish LOS and NLOS paths based on their difference in spatial stability. Wu et al.[15] utilized CSI phases of multiple antennas for real- time LOS identification for both static and mobile scenarios[15] . Phase information offers an orthogonal dimension to traditional amplitude-based features, and has been successfully adopted in a range of applications, e.g., millimeter-level localization[16] . Another concrete environment characteristic is the shape and the size of rooms and corridors, which make up part of the floor plan. Floor plan is often assumed to be offered by service providers and researchers have shown increasing interest to draw floor plans by combining wireless and inertial sensing. Some works also demonstrated the feasibility of using wireless sensing alone to recover part of the floor plan information. For instance, Wang et al.[17] distinguished straight pathways, right-angle, and arc corners by analyzing the difference in the trend of CSI changing rates when the WiFi device moves. With channel measurements on multiple receiving antennas, the authors in Ref. [18] developed a space scanning scheme by calculating the angle-of-arrivals of multiple propagation paths and inferring the locations of the reflecting walls. Despite its bulky size, the working prototype holds promise for scanning the physical space wirelessly and contactlessly. 3.2 Sensing humans Humans, as part of the environments wireless signals propagate within, are of utmost interest in wireless sensing. In passive human detection, CSI can detect tiny human-induced variations from both LOS and NLOS paths, thereby enhancing detection sensitivity and expanding sensing coverage. Zhou et al.[4] utilized CSI as finer-grained fingerprints to achieve omnidirectional passive human detection on a single transmitter-receiver link, where the user approaching the receiver from all directions can be detected. With fusion of multiple links, CSI also facilitates fine-grained passive human localization[19] . Xi et al.[5] extended human detection to multi-user scenarios by correlating the variation of CSI to the number of humans nearby for device-free crowd counting. Pioneer research has marched beyond detecting simply the presence of humans. On the one hand, CSI-based wireless sensing shifts from locating users in the physical coordinates to offering more context-aware information. Some work demonstrated the feasibility of general-purposed daily activity recognition by using CSI as fingerprints for the hybrid of locations and activity patterns[7] . Others targeted at more concrete scenarios, e.g., fall detection[20] , adopting similar principles with scenario-tailored optimization. On the other hand, ambitious CSI-based sensing applications strive to detect micro body-part motions at increasingly finer granularity. Some reported over 90% accuracy of distinguishing multiple whole-body[6] and body- part gestures[9] , while others claimed accurate breath detection[10] or even lips reading[8] . Nevertheless, researchers have reached no concursus on to what extent of motion granularity and variety is CSI capable of distinguishing in practice. 3.3 One leap further: WiFi radar Over the past five years, CSI has spawned various applications and its application scenarios continue to expand. As an upgrade for RSS, it is natural to improve performance of some applications simply by replacing RSS with CSI. CSI also enables various applications infeasible with RSS alone, such as gesture recognition, breath detection, and complex environment sensing. Nevertheless, CSI is not a panacea, and its improvement in sensing granularity is still incomparable with radar signals. Some envisioned
  • 5. Zimu Zhou et al.: Sensorless Sensing with WiFi 5 applications might have already gone beyond the capability of CSI. Apart from further exploring and exploiting the frequency diversity and the phase information of CSI, researchers also began to identify its limitations in practice, as well as seek other techniques to extend CSI-based sensing to general WiFi-based sensorless sensing or WiFi radar. In Ref. [21], researchers pointed out via ambiguity function analysis that the range resolution of WiFi-compatible passive bistatic radars can only reach meters, which is fundamentally constrained by the bandwidth of WiFi signals. To overcome this intrinsic constraint, researchers alternatively incorporate Multi-Input-Multi- Output (MIMO) technology. Researchers in Ref. [22] exploited antenna cancellation techniques to eliminate the impact of static clutters to enable through-wall sensing of human movements. In Ref. [23], the authors achieved computational imaging using WiFi, and built a MIMO-based prototype on software defined radio platforms. They experimentally demonstrated that the size, material, and orientation of the target objects can significantly affect the performance of WiFi imaging, and a one-fit-all solution is still to be explored. 4 Conclusions Wireless and sensorless sensing seeks breakthroughs in the contradiction between the limitation of WiFi and the growing demand for environment perception in daily life, seeks a balance between low cost and high accuracy, explores solutions via frequency diversity and spatial diversity, and creates applications that are previously infeasible in wireless communications and mobile computing. We envision technological advances would boost the capability of wireless sensing to finer granularity and higher sensitivity, which will in turn foster various new applications. 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