Toward Realistic Wi-Fi Fault Diagnosis: A Multi-Modal Benchmark

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Main Authors: Zhang, Junjian, Deng, Haobo, Li, Xinxin, Zhao, Ming, Tang, Fengxiao, Kato, Nei
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Published: 2026
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author Zhang, Junjian
Deng, Haobo
Li, Xinxin
Zhao, Ming
Tang, Fengxiao
Kato, Nei
author_facet Zhang, Junjian
Deng, Haobo
Li, Xinxin
Zhao, Ming
Tang, Fengxiao
Kato, Nei
contents Intelligent network operation and maintenance systems in modern networks continuously generate large volumes of multi-modal operational data. However, Wi-Fi fault diagnosis under heterogeneous operational environments remains insufficiently understood. We build a real-world Wi-Fi testbed deployed in campus working environments with an automated fault injection system, and collect a multi-modal Wi-Fi fault dataset containing over 10,000 fault samples across diverse wireless scenarios. To the best of our knowledge, this is among the first publicly available datasets jointly capturing heterogeneous cross-layer operational observations for Wi-Fi fault diagnosis. Based on this dataset, we establish a unified benchmark spanning multiple diagnosis tasks, operational modalities, and representative diagnosis paradigms. Experimental results indicate that effectively leveraging heterogeneous operational data remains challenging for existing diagnosis approaches. We further evaluate emerging LLM-based approaches and develop a reasoningoriented evaluation framework to assess the consistency between generated diagnostic analyses and actual network conditions. Our findings suggest several important considerations for future multi-modal Wi-Fi diagnosis.
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spellingShingle Toward Realistic Wi-Fi Fault Diagnosis: A Multi-Modal Benchmark
Zhang, Junjian
Deng, Haobo
Li, Xinxin
Zhao, Ming
Tang, Fengxiao
Kato, Nei
Networking and Internet Architecture
Intelligent network operation and maintenance systems in modern networks continuously generate large volumes of multi-modal operational data. However, Wi-Fi fault diagnosis under heterogeneous operational environments remains insufficiently understood. We build a real-world Wi-Fi testbed deployed in campus working environments with an automated fault injection system, and collect a multi-modal Wi-Fi fault dataset containing over 10,000 fault samples across diverse wireless scenarios. To the best of our knowledge, this is among the first publicly available datasets jointly capturing heterogeneous cross-layer operational observations for Wi-Fi fault diagnosis. Based on this dataset, we establish a unified benchmark spanning multiple diagnosis tasks, operational modalities, and representative diagnosis paradigms. Experimental results indicate that effectively leveraging heterogeneous operational data remains challenging for existing diagnosis approaches. We further evaluate emerging LLM-based approaches and develop a reasoningoriented evaluation framework to assess the consistency between generated diagnostic analyses and actual network conditions. Our findings suggest several important considerations for future multi-modal Wi-Fi diagnosis.
title Toward Realistic Wi-Fi Fault Diagnosis: A Multi-Modal Benchmark
topic Networking and Internet Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22008