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Devices authentication is one crucial aspect of any communication system. Recently, the physical layer approach radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting has gained increased interest as it provides an extra layer of security without requiring…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-13 Da Huang , Akram Al-Hourani , Kandeepan Sithamparanathan , Wayne S. T. Rowe

RF devices can be identified by unique imperfections embedded in the signals they transmit called RF fingerprints. The closed set classification of such devices, where the identification must be made among an authorized set of transmitters,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Samurdhi Karunaratne , Samer Hanna , Danijela Cabric

In spite of intense research efforts, deep neural networks remain vulnerable to adversarial examples: an input that forces the network to confidently produce incorrect outputs. Adversarial examples are typically generated by an attack…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-02 David Aaron Nicholson , Vincent Emanuele

By adding users as a new dimension to connectivity, on-body Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices have gained considerable momentum in recent years, while raising serious privacy and safety issues. Existing approaches to authenticate these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Yong Huang , Wei Wang , Hao Wang , Tao Jiang , Qian Zhang

This paper advances the state of the art by proposing the first comprehensive analysis and experimental evaluation of adversarial learning attacks to wireless deep learning systems. We postulate a series of adversarial attacks, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Francesco Restuccia , Salvatore D'Oro , Amani Al-Shawabka , Bruno Costa Rendon , Kaushik Chowdhury , Stratis Ioannidis , Tommaso Melodia

This paper presents channel-aware adversarial attacks against deep learning-based wireless signal classifiers. There is a transmitter that transmits signals with different modulation types. A deep neural network is used at each receiver to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Brian Kim , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Kemal Davaslioglu , Tugba Erpek , Sennur Ulukus

Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (RFF) has evolved as an effective solution for authenticating devices by leveraging the unique imperfections in hardware components involved in the signal generation process. In this work, we propose a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Raju Dhakal , Prashant Shekhar , Laxima Niure Kandel

Recent device fingerprinting approaches rely on deep learning to extract device-specific features solely from raw RF signals to identify, classify and authenticate wireless devices. One widely known issue lies in the inability of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Bechir Hamdaoui , Abdurrahman Elmaghbub

As a promising non-password authentication technology, radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting can greatly improve wireless security. Recent work has shown that RF fingerprinting based on deep learning can significantly outperform conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-01 Weidong Wang , Cheng Luo , Jiancheng An , Lu Gan , Hongshu Liao , Chau Yuen

Deep Learning (DL) has become a key technology that assists radio frequency (RF) signal classification applications, such as modulation classification. However, the DL models are vulnerable to adversarial machine learning threats, such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Younes Salmi , Hanna Bogucka

Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) is becoming increasingly popular, especially in applications with constrained power, such as the Internet of Things (IoT). Due to subtle manufacturing variations, wireless devices have…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-11 Lu Yang , Seyit Camtepe , Yansong Gao , Vicky Liu , Dhammika Jayalath

In a spoofing attack, a malicious actor impersonates a legitimate user to access or manipulate data without authorization. The vulnerability of cryptographic security mechanisms to compromised user credentials motivates spoofing attack…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Tien Ngoc Ha , Daniel Romero

Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) is a key technique for wireless network security, leveraging intrinsic hardware imperfections to enable transmitter identification. Although deep neural networks are effective at extracting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuhao Pan , Xiucheng Wang , Fushuo Huo , Nan Cheng , Wenchao Xu

Photorealistic image generation has reached a new level of quality due to the breakthroughs of generative adversarial networks (GANs). Yet, the dark side of such deepfakes, the malicious use of generated media, raises concerns about visual…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Ning Yu , Vladislav Skripniuk , Sahar Abdelnabi , Mario Fritz

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly being used in a variety of traditional radiofrequency (RF) problems. Previous work has shown that while DNN classifiers are typically more accurate than traditional signal processing algorithms,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Roman A. Sandler , Peter K. Relich , Cloud Cho , Sean Holloway

Generative models are gaining significant attention as potential catalysts for a novel industrial revolution. Since automated sample generation can be useful to solve privacy and data scarcity issues that usually affect learned biometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Saverio Cavasin , Daniele Mari , Simone Milani , Mauro Conti

Wireless networks are vulnerable to physical layer spoofing attacks due to the wireless broadcast nature, thus, integrating communications and security (ICAS) is urgently needed for 6G endogenous security. In this letter, we propose an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Ning Gao , Qiying Huang , Cen Li , Shi Jin , Michail Matthaiou

Radio frequency fingerprint (RFF) is a promising device identification technology, with recent research shifting from robustness to security due to growing concerns over vulnerabilities. To date, while the security of RFF against basic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zhou Xu , Guyue Li , Zhe Peng , Aiqun Hu

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have made remarkable progress in synthesizing realistic-looking images that effectively outsmart even humans. Although several detection methods can recognize these deep fakes by checking for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Vera Wesselkamp , Konrad Rieck , Daniel Arp , Erwin Quiring

Machine learning provides automated means to capture complex dynamics of wireless spectrum and support better understanding of spectrum resources and their efficient utilization. As communication systems become smarter with cognitive radio…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Yi Shi