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A Survey on the Applications of Wi-Fi Sensing

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With the increasing demand for wireless data, more and more Wi-Fi devices are being constructed. Recently, people are not satisfied that Wi-Fi is only used for data exchange. Wi-Fi starts to be used for sensing in various scenarios. To understand the fundamental technology and the development trends of Wi-Fi sensing, this paper provides a comprehensive survey of resent application and performance of Wi-Fi sensing to describe the fundamental technology. Based on the sensing objects, this paper divides Wi-Fi sensing into two categories: dynamic sensing and static sensing. With the emergence of new Wi-Fi technology, Wi-Fi sensing will be developed. This paper also analyses two research trends of Wi-Fi sensing including multi-antenna fusion and multi-sensor fusion, three research challenges: limitation, robustness, and practicality, promising research directions in applications of Wi-Fi sensing.

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This work supports in part by National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2018YFB2004200), Industrial Internet Innovation and Development Project of China (2019), National Science Foundation of China (No. 61872100).

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    Fan Li, Chao Li, Yang Lv, Haoshan Xu, Xinhao Wang & Zhenlei Yu

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Li, F., Li, C., Lv, Y., Xu, H., Wang, X., Yu, Z. (2021). A Survey on the Applications of Wi-Fi Sensing. In: Sun, X., Zhang, X., Xia, Z., Bertino, E. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Security. ICAIS 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1424. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78621-2_51

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