Spiking-Aided Neural Architecture for Efficient and Robust WiFi Sensing

Abstract This paper introduces a spiking-aided wifi sensing network (SWS-Net), a novel hybrid neural architecture that integrates Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) with conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) for robust WiFi-based indoor sensing. WiFi signals offer a low-cost and device-free solution for recognizing human activities, gestures, identities and etc. However, their susceptibility to multipath fading and environmental noise poses significant challenges. Inspired by the human brain’s capability to process noisy information, SWS-Net leverages the noise-resilient dynamics of spiking neurons alongside the feature extraction ability of ANNs. We present a theoretical analysis comparing the noise-handling capacities of SNNs and ANNs, and show how their combination yields both improved robustness and training efficiency. Experimental results across three WiFi sensing tasks demonstrate that SWS-Net consistently achieves higher accuracy and faster convergence compared to baseline models, validating its effectiveness in challenging indoor environments.