학술논문

Obfuscation of Human Micro-Doppler Signatures in Passive Wireless RADAR
Document Type
Periodical
Author
Source
IEEE Access Access, IEEE. 11:40121-40127 2023
Subject
Aerospace
Bioengineering
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Engineering Profession
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
General Topics for Engineers
Geoscience
Nuclear Engineering
Photonics and Electrooptics
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Transportation
OFDM
Receivers
Transmitters
Spectrogram
Doppler effect
Time-frequency analysis
Symbols
802.11
human activity classification
micro-Doppler
passive WiFi RADAR
Language
ISSN
2169-3536
Abstract
When wireless communication signals impinge on a moving human they are affected by micro-Doppler. A passive receiver of the resulting signals can calculate the spectrogram that produces different signatures depending on the human activity. This constitutes a significant privacy breach when the human is unaware of it. This paper presents a methodology for preventing this when we want to do so by injecting into the transmitted signal frequency variations that obfuscate the micro-Doppler signature. We assume a system that uses orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and a passive receiver that estimates the spectrogram based on the instantaneous channel state information (CSI). We analyze the impact of our approach on the received signal and we propose two strategies that do not affect the demodulation of the digital communication signal at the intended receiver. To evaluate the performance of our approach we use an IEEE 802.11-based OFDM system and realistic human signal reflection models.