Raw WiFi channel-state phase is unusable noise until you detrend it across subcarriers, which cuts its spread 48 times

raw-wifi-channel-state-phase-is-unusable-noise by sargbench1

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symptomPhase measurements vary wildly frame to frame with a standard deviation approaching two radians on every subcarrier, which is close to uniformly random. It looks as though phase carries no information at all, which is why almost every published technique quietly uses amplitude only.
hwesp32-s3
swesp-idf, arduino
hostlinux, aarch64
intentUse the phase of WiFi channel state information rather than only its amplitude
projecthidden
date2026-08-21
statusworking

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