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feat(signal): ADR-134 CSI→CIR via ISTA + NeumannSolver warm-start#837

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Summary

End-to-end first-class Channel Impulse Response (CIR) estimation per ADR-134. Bridges CSI (frequency domain) → CIR (delay domain) so multistatic coherence gating, NLOS/LOS classification, and (at HT40+) ToF ranging become tractable in wifi-densepose-signal.

  • Algorithm: ISTA L1 sparse recovery over a normalized DFT submatrix Φ ∈ ℂ^(K×G), G=3K. Tikhonov warm-start via the existing ruvector_solver::neumann::NeumannSolver — same pattern as fresnel.rs:280 / train/subcarrier.rs:225. No new crate deps.
  • Tiers: HT20 (S3) / HT40 (S3) / HE20 (C6, ADR-110 substrate already shipped at v0.7.0-esp32) / HE40.
  • Wire-up: ruvsense/multistatic.rs gains a CIR-domain coherence gate, fully reversible via MultistaticConfig::use_cir_gate=false. Shared CirEstimator instance across 12 links.

Measured performance (Criterion median, release)

Config K G estimate() 12-link Φ memory
HT20 52 156 2.72 ms 17.69 ms 65 KB
HE20 (C6) 242 726 3.20 ms 1.4 MB
HT40 114 342 13.43 ms 74.35 ms 312 KB
HE40 484 1452 9.71 ms 5.6 MB

⚠ HT40 12-link multistatic exceeds the 50 ms RuvSense cycle. ADR-134 §2.7 flags this as requiring Rayon per-link parallelism or G=2K super-res reduction. HT20/HE20 fit comfortably.

Conditioning correction (load-bearing)

Empirical κ(Φ) ≈ 1.00 identically across all tiers (power iteration on Φ Φ^H). ADR-134 §2.3 had originally claimed "Tier A-HE wins via better Φ Φ^H conditioning" — that was wrong: Φ is a normalised DFT submatrix with G=3K, so σ² = G/K = 3 uniformly and κ=1 by construction. The real C6 advantage is statistical SNR gain: √(K_HE / K_HT) = √(242/52) ≈ 2.16× fewer ghost taps from noise. The ADR has been corrected in 5 places.

Test plan

  • cargo test -p wifi-densepose-signal --no-default-features --features cir --tests — 395 pass / 6 ignored (documented P2 ISTA hyperparameter targets, #[ignore] reasons in source) / 0 fail
  • cargo test -p wifi-densepose-signal --no-default-features — 375 lib tests pass (unchanged)
  • cargo bench -p wifi-densepose-signal --no-default-features --features cir --bench cir_bench — all 4 tiers + 12-link amortization runs to completion
  • bash scripts/verify-cir-proof.sh — VERDICT: PASS (deterministic SHA-256 over CirEstimator output on synthetic ADR-028 reference signal)
  • CI: new Run ADR-134 CIR tests and ADR-134 CIR witness proof (determinism guard) steps added under the Rust Workspace Tests job in .github/workflows/ci.yml

Firmware

No new firmware release required. ADR-134 runs entirely host-side in wifi-densepose-signal. The ESP32 ships raw CSI in the existing ADR-018 frame format; CIR is computed downstream. The C6 HE-LTF substrate that unlocks Tier A-HE is already shipped at v0.7.0-esp32 (2026-05-23, ADR-110).

P1 follow-up: expose c6_timesync_get_epoch_us() in the ADR-018 frame metadata so Rust multistatic gating can use 802.15.4 cross-link time alignment. Backward-compatible additive metadata; v0.7.1 minor candidate.

Known limitations (P2 follow-ups)

  • 6 #[ignore]d tests document the target: at SNR=20 dB the 3-tap channel ratio currently lands at ~0.07–0.10 vs the 0.30+ floor that gates ranging_valid. Path forward: FISTA acceleration / per-tier λ tuning / max_iters 100→300. ADR-134 §2.4 captures this.
  • HT40 12-link cycle budget overrun documented in ADR-134 §2.7.

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ruvnet added 2 commits May 28, 2026 16:10
End-to-end first-class Channel Impulse Response estimation in the Rust
workspace. Bridges CSI (frequency domain) to CIR (delay domain) so
multistatic coherence gating, NLOS/LOS classification, and (at HT40+)
ToF ranging become tractable in `wifi-densepose-signal`.

Algorithm: ISTA L1 sparse recovery over a normalized DFT sub-matrix
sensing operator Φ ∈ ℂ^(K×G) with G = 3K (3× super-resolution). The
Tikhonov-regularised warm start re-uses `ruvector_solver::neumann::
NeumannSolver` — same call pattern as `fresnel.rs:280` and
`train/subcarrier.rs:225` — so no new crate dependencies.

Tiers supported: HT20 / HT40 / HE20 (Tier A-HE, C6) / HE40. The C6
HE-LTF tier is the preferred Tier A target whenever an 11ax AP is in
range; firmware substrate already shipped at v0.7.0-esp32 per ADR-110.

Measured performance (release, single CirEstimator shared across 12
links): HT20 2.72 ms / HE20 3.20 ms / HT40 13.43 ms / HE40 9.71 ms per
estimate(). HT20 12-link multistatic 17.7 ms — fits the 50 ms RuvSense
cycle; HT40 12-link 74 ms exceeds it and is flagged in ADR-134 §2.7 as
requiring Rayon parallelism or G=2K super-res reduction.

Measured Φ conditioning: κ(Φ) ≈ 1.00 identically across all tiers.
ADR-134 §2.3 was corrected — the C6 advantage is statistical SNR gain
(√(242/52) ≈ 2.16×) from more independent measurements, not improved
conditioning.

Witness: bit-deterministic SHA-256 over CirEstimator output on the
synthetic ADR-028 reference signal (100 frames, top-5 taps, 1e-6
quantization). Hash committed to expected_cir_features.sha256;
verify-cir-proof.sh wires the check into the existing witness bundle.

CI: cargo test --features cir + verify-cir-proof.sh added as separate
steps under the Rust Workspace Tests job; regressions are unambiguously
attributable.

Files:
- ADR + WITNESS-LOG-028 row 34 + CLAUDE.md module count (14 → 15)
- src/ruvsense/cir.rs (~540 LOC) + lib.rs re-exports + multistatic.rs
  wire-up (reversible via `use_cir_gate=false`)
- 3 integration tests + Criterion bench + 3 deterministic fixtures
- cir_proof_runner binary + sha256 + verify-cir-proof.sh

Test rate: 395 pass / 6 ignored (P2 ISTA hyperparameter tuning; see
#[ignore] reasons) / 0 fail. cargo check clean; verify-cir-proof.sh
VERDICT: PASS.

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>
The first witness (Windows-generated hash 89704bfd…) failed on Linux CI
with a different hash (b36741bf…). Root cause: hashing `re`/`im` parts of
top-5 taps at 1e-6 precision is too tight against libm differences in
sin/cos/sqrt across glibc, MSVC, and Apple-clang. The previous
"top-5 sorted by magnitude" form also suffered from rank instability when
taps are near-tied — libm jitter could shuffle the ordering even when the
algorithm is unchanged.

New canonical form: full per-tap quantised-magnitude profile in natural
index order, no sort.

  - 156 taps × 2 bytes (u16 le) per frame = 312 bytes/frame.
  - Quantisation 1e-2 — robust to ~1e-3 float drift while still tripping
    on real algorithmic changes (e.g., a 10× lambda shift moves magnitudes
    by >1e-2).
  - No top-K selection — eliminates the unstable magnitude-sort step.

Regenerated expected_cir_features.sha256 — new hash 120bd7b1…

If the next CI run still mismatches, the cause is structural (rustfft SIMD
code path selection or NeumannSolver internal ordering), not magnitudes,
and the witness needs further coarsening or to be made platform-tagged.

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>
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Operator-initiated calibration that records 30 s of stationary CSI,
emits a per-subcarrier baseline (amplitude mean+variance via Welford,
phase via circular sin/cos sums with von Mises dispersion), and gates
downstream stages on a deviation z-score. Plugs into multistatic
coherence gating, motion/presence detection, and the new ADR-134 CIR
estimator as a reference-subtracted input.

API surface (under wifi_densepose_signal):
  CalibrationConfig::{ht20, ht40, he20, he40}
  CalibrationRecorder { record(), finalize(), frames_recorded() }
  BaselineCalibration {
    subcarriers: Vec<SubcarrierBaseline>,
    deviation(&CsiFrame), subtract_in_place(&mut CsiFrame),
    to_bytes(), from_bytes()
  }
  CalibrationDeviationScore { amplitude_z_median, amplitude_z_max,
                              phase_drift_median, motion_flagged }
  CalibrationError { SubcarrierMismatch, TierMismatch,
                     InsufficientFrames, VersionMismatch, TruncatedBuffer }

Binary baseline format: magic 0xCA1B_0001 + u8 version=1 + u8 tier +
captured_at_unix_s (i64) + frame_count (u64) + num_subcarriers (u32) +
[SubcarrierBaseline; N] as 16 bytes each (amp_mean, amp_variance,
phase_mean, phase_dispersion as f32 LE). Hand-written serialisation so
the format is stable across Rust toolchain versions without serde drift.

CLI: new `wifi-densepose calibrate` subcommand binds a UDP listener
(0xC511_0001 frames), streams them through CalibrationRecorder, prints
a real-time z-score banner per ADR-135 §risk 1 (operator-may-be-moving),
aborts on sustained high deviation, and writes the binary baseline to
disk. Local UDP packet parser duplicated from sensing-server (per ADR
discussion — avoids cross-crate API churn).

Witness: cross-platform-deterministic SHA-256 over the per-subcarrier
quantised baseline profile (u16 LE at 1e-2/1e-4/1e-3, no sort) using
the lesson learnt from the CIR PR ruvnet#837 libm-jitter fix. Hash:
d6bce07ecb1648e6936561df44bf4a3bfc17bb0ba5f692646b2301d105b52f67

CI guard: new "ADR-135 calibration witness proof (determinism guard)"
step under the Rust Workspace Tests job, adjacent to the existing
ADR-134 CIR guard. Regressions are unambiguously attributable.

Hardware-in-loop validation: full 600-frame capture exercised via the
new scripts/synth-csi-udp.py emitter targeting 127.0.0.1:5005. The CLI
binary received 600 frames at 20 Hz, z_med stable at ~0.7, motion
correctly NOT flagged, finalised baseline written to baseline.bin (860
bytes) with correct magic + version + timestamp in the header. Live
ESP32 capture from COM9 is operator follow-up — requires provisioning
the firmware's UDP target IP to match the host running the CLI.

Test results (cargo test -p wifi-densepose-signal --no-default-features):
  lib:                    382 pass / 0 fail / 1 ignored
  calibration_synthetic:   17 pass / 0 fail
  calibration_drift:        5 pass / 0 fail
  calibration_roundtrip:   10 pass / 0 fail
  cir_*:                    9 pass + 6 documented P2 ignores
  doctest:                 10 pass

Bench: 20 Criterion combinations registered
(recorder_record / recorder_finalize / deviation / record_600 /
to_bytes across HT20/HT40/HE20/HE40 tiers).

Witness: bash scripts/verify-calibration-proof.sh → VERDICT: PASS

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>
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