backbone_conceptual_papers.csv

Rank,Year,Title,Authors,Venue or Source,Main Role,Application Relevance,Security Relevance,Paper URL,Code URL,Notes
1,2024,Practical Adversarial Attack on WiFi Sensing Through Unnoticeable Communication Packet Perturbation,"Li; Xu; Du; Liu; Shi",ACM MobiCom 2024,"Physical-layer WiFi sensing attack proof-of-concept","WiFi sensing; activity recognition; vital-sign monitoring context","Direct physical-layer adversarial impact on CSI-based sensing",https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3636534.3649367,,"Core paper showing WiFi sensing can be attacked through communication-packet and preamble-related perturbation."
2,2024,Security Analysis of WiFi-based Sensing Systems: Threats from Perturbation Attacks,"Cao; Huang; Xu; Chen; He",arXiv preprint,"Black-box and universal perturbation threat model for WiFi sensing","WiFi sensing; gesture recognition; respiratory monitoring; authentication; localization","Direct adversarial perturbation evidence across WiFi sensing services",https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15587,,"Broadens the threat model beyond one task or one dataset."
3,2025,Adversarial OFDM Spectrum Modification to Manipulate Channel State Information Systems,"Huang; Deng; Zhang; Wang; Wang",IEEE DySPAN 2025,"OFDM/subcarrier-level CSI manipulation proof-of-concept","CSI-based sensing and wireless measurement integrity","Direct physical-layer CSI manipulation evidence",https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11115902/,,"Supports the EE foundation that CSI itself can be manipulated at the OFDM/subcarrier level."
4,2022,WiCAM: Imperceptible Adversarial Attack on Deep Learning based WiFi Sensing,"Xu; Zheng; Li; Zhang; Liu",IEEE ICDCS 2022,"Imperceptible adversarial attack on deep-learning WiFi sensing","WiFi HAR; gesture recognition; user identification","Direct adversarial CSI perturbation evidence",https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9918564/,,"Shows attention-guided subcarrier perturbation against WiFi sensing models."
5,2019,Certified Adversarial Robustness via Randomized Smoothing,"Cohen; Rosenfeld; Kolter",ICML / PMLR 2019,"Certified robustness theory for software-only hardening","General trustworthy AI; robustness framework","Defense theory supporting certified robustness evaluation",https://proceedings.mlr.press/v97/cohen19c.html,https://github.com/locuslab/smoothing,"Not WiFi-specific, but provides theoretical foundation for certified robustness."