Presentation 2022-01-20
[Short Paper] A Study of Beamforming Feedback-based Model-driven Angle of Departure Estimation
Sohei Itahara, Takayuki Nishio, Koji Yamamoto,
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Abstract(in English) This paper introduces the angle of departure (AoD) estimation method [1] using the multiple signal classification (MUSIC) with only WiFi control frames for beamforming feedback (BFF), defined in IEEE 802.11ac/ax. Although channel state information (CSI) enables model-driven AoD estimation, most BFF-based sensing techniques are data-driven because they only contain the right singular vectors of CSI and subcarrier-averaged stream gain. Specifically, we find that right singular vectors with a subcarrier-averaged stream gain of zero have the same role as the noise subspace vectors in the CSI-based MUSIC algorithm. Numerical evaluations confirm that the proposed BFF-based MUSIC successfully estimates the AoDs and gains for all propagation paths. Meanwhile, this result implies a potential privacy risk; a malicious sniffer can carry out AoD estimation only with unencrypted BFF frames.
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Keyword(in English) Wireless sensing / channel state information / angle of departure / beamforming feedback
Paper # SeMI2021-68
Date of Issue 2022-01-13 (SeMI)

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Conference Date 2022/1/20(2days)
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Chair Koji Yamamoto(Kyoto Univ.)
Vice Chair Kazuya Monden(Hitachi) / Yasunori Owada(NICT)
Secretary Kazuya Monden(Cyber Univ.) / Yasunori Owada(Waseda Univ.)
Assistant Yuki Katsumata(NTT DOCOMO) / Akihito Taya(Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) / Yu Nakayama(Tokyo Univ. of Agri. and Tech.)

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Title (in English) [Short Paper] A Study of Beamforming Feedback-based Model-driven Angle of Departure Estimation
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Keyword(1) Wireless sensing
Keyword(2) channel state information
Keyword(3) angle of departure
Keyword(4) beamforming feedback
1st Author's Name Sohei Itahara
1st Author's Affiliation Kyoto University(Kyoto Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Takayuki Nishio
2nd Author's Affiliation Kyoto University/Tokyo Institute of Technology(Kyoto Univ./Tokyo Tech.)
3rd Author's Name Koji Yamamoto
3rd Author's Affiliation Kyoto University(Kyoto Univ.)
Date 2022-01-20
Paper # SeMI2021-68
Volume (vol) vol.121
Number (no) SeMI-333
Page pp.pp.59-61(SeMI),
#Pages 3
Date of Issue 2022-01-13 (SeMI)