Abstract:The environmental and target-related information inherently carried in wireless signals, such as channel state information (CSI), has brought increasing attention to integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). However, it also raises pressing concerns about privacy leakage through eavesdropping. While existing efforts have attempted to mitigate this issue, they either fail to account for the needs of legitimate communication and sensing or rely on hardware with high cost. To overcome these limitations, we propose PrivISAC, a plug-and-play, low-cost solution that leverages reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to protect user privacy while preserving ISAC performance. At its core, PrivISAC constructs a small set of RIS configurations from two beamforming vectors per RIS row and randomly activates one configuration per time slot to perturb CSI and mask sensitive sensing information from eavesdroppers. The two vectors are designed to maintain similar communication-direction responses while creating distinct sensing-direction responses, thereby preserving transmission quality and masking sensitive CSI from eavesdroppers. To enable legitimate sensing, we introduce a time-domain masking and demasking method that maps CSI samples to their RIS configurations and removes configuration-induced discrepancies. We implement PrivISAC on commodity wireless devices and conduct extensive experiments. Results show that PrivISAC provides effective privacy protection while preserving high-quality communication and sensing performance for legitimate receivers.
From: Yinghui He [view email]
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