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Cross-Room Passive WiFi Tracking: Joint Estimation of Target Trajectory and Virtual Transmitter Location

Heping Wang·Zhongqin Wang·Henk Wymeersch·J. Andrew Zhang
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Indoor bistatic WiFi sensing must often operate across rooms, where intervening walls block the direct line-of-sight (LOS) path between the transmitter (Tx) and receiver (Rx). Recovering a human trajectory from channel-state-information (CSI)-derived delay, angle-of-arrival (AoA), and Doppler estimates is difficult because the Tx position is often unknown and NLOS propagation is inconsistent with direct-path geometry. This paper presents CoTrack, a self-calibrating passive WiFi tracking scheme that does not require the Tx position. CoTrack extracts one dominant human-induced response and represents its transmitter-side propagation by a virtual Tx, which it estimates jointly with the human trajectory. Because similar measurements can be explained by different virtual-Tx--trajectory pairs, CoTrack uses multi-start nonlinear least squares and accepts an initialization only when the best-fitting candidates concentrate around a common virtual-Tx position. It then applies online alternating optimization for continuous tracking. We analyze the local identifiability of the joint estimation problem and derive the corresponding Cramér--Rao bound. Across six LOS and cross-room NLOS experiments, CoTrack achieves a median trajectory error of 1.14m(80th percentile: 1.42m) and a median virtual-Tx discrepancy of 0.47m(80th percentile: 0.54m).

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Heping Wang, Zhongqin Wang, Henk Wymeersch, J. Andrew Zhang. 2026-09-28. Cross-Room Passive WiFi Tracking: Joint Estimation of Target Trajectory and Virtual Transmitter Location. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.34797

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