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Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (RFF) is one of the promising passive authentication approaches for improving the security of the Internet of Things (IoT). However, with the proliferation of low-power IoT devices, it becomes imperative to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-23 Jiabao Yu , Aiqun Hu , Fen Zhou , Yuexiu Xing , Yi Yu , Guyue Li , Linning Peng

The Radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting technique makes highly secure device authentication possible for future networks by exploiting hardware imperfections introduced during manufacturing. Although this technique has received considerable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Chuanting Zhang , Shuping Dang , Junqing Zhang , Haixia Zhang , Mark A. Beach

The vehicular-to-everything (V2X) technology has recently drawn a number of attentions from both academic and industrial areas. However, the openness of the wireless communication system makes it more vulnerable to identity impersonation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-05 Tianshu Chen , Hong Shen , Aiqun Hu , Weihang He , Jie Xu , Hongxing Hu

Securing Internet of Things (IoT) devices presents increasing challenges due to their limited computational and energy resources. Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification (RFFI) emerges as a promising authentication technique to identify…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-10 Guolin Yin , Junqing Zhang , Yuan Ding , Simon Cotton

Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) is an emerging device authentication technique, which exploits the hardware characteristics of the RF front-end as device identifiers. RFFI is implemented in the wireless receiver and acts…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-08 Guanxiong Shen , Junqing Zhang , Alan Marshall , Roger Woods , Joseph Cavallaro , Liquan Chen

Radio frequency fingerprint (RFF) identification technology, which exploits relatively stable hardware imperfections, is highly susceptible to constantly changing channel effects. Although various channel-robust RFF feature extraction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Xuan Yang , Dongming Li , Yi Lou , Xianglin Fan

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

With the rapid proliferation of wireless and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, ensuring secure and reliable device identification has become a significant challenge. Traditional security techniques, such as IP or MAC address-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Liu Yang , Qiang Li , Xiaoyang Ren

Ultra-low latency, the hallmark of fifth-generation mobile communications (5G), imposes exacting timing demands on identification as well. Current cryptographic solutions introduce additional computational overhead, which results in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yingjie Sun , Guyue Li , Hongfu Chou , Aiqun Hu

Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (RFF) using deep learning has gained attention as a complementary approach to cryptographic authentication, offering resistance to spoofing, replay attacks, and key leakage. While most RFF approaches rely on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Fawaz Abdul Razak , Yasin Yilmaz

Fingerprint recognition has been utilized for cellphone authentication, airport security and beyond. Many different features and algorithms have been proposed to improve fingerprint recognition. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Shervin Minaee , Elham Azimi , Amirali Abdolrashidi

Radio frequency interference (RFI) detection and excision are key steps in the data-processing pipeline of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). Because of its high sensitivity and large data rate, FAST requires…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-14 Zhicheng Yang , Ce Yu , Jian Xiao , Bo Zhang

Radio Frequency fingerprints (RFF) authentication is one of the methods for the physical-layer information security, which uses the hardware characteristics of the transmitter to identify its real identity. In order to improve the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Yan Yan , Hong-lin Yuan , Zhi-hua Bao , Guo-an Zhang

We address the critical problem of interference rejection in radio-frequency (RF) signals using a data-driven approach that leverages deep-learning methods. A primary contribution of this paper is the introduction of the RF Challenge, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Alejandro Lancho , Amir Weiss , Gary C. F. Lee , Tejas Jayashankar , Binoy Kurien , Yury Polyanskiy , Gregory W. Wornell

This paper presents DeepCRF, a new framework that harnesses deep learning to extract subtle micro-signals from channel state information (CSI) measurements, enabling robust and resilient radio-frequency fingerprinting (RFF) of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Ruiqi Kong , He Chen

Improving the generalization ability of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is critical for their practical uses, which has been a longstanding challenge. Some theoretical studies have uncovered that DNNs have preferences for some frequency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Shiqi Lin , Zhizheng Zhang , Zhipeng Huang , Yan Lu , Cuiling Lan , Peng Chu , Quanzeng You , Jiang Wang , Zicheng Liu , Amey Parulkar , Viraj Navkal , Zhibo Chen

Researchers have demonstrated various techniques for fingerprinting and identifying devices. Previous approaches have identified devices from their network traffic or transmitted signals while relying on software or operating system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Ioannis Agadakos , Nikolaos Agadakos , Jason Polakis , Mohamed R. Amer

Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) exploits device-specific hardware impairments for transmitter recognition, but its performance is highly vulnerable to receiver variations and changing wireless channels in cross-receiver…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Jiashuo He , Yumeng Wang , Feiyang He , Sai Huang , Yiheng Liu , Shuo Chang , Zhiyong Feng

Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (RFF) offers a unique method for identifying devices at the physical (PHY) layer based on their RF emissions due to intrinsic hardware differences. Nevertheless, RFF techniques depend on the ability to extract…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Muhammad Irfan , Savio Sciancalepore , Gabriele Oligeri

This work introduces DeepCRF, a deep learning framework designed for channel state information-based radio frequency fingerprinting (CSI-RFF). The considered CSI-RFF is built on micro-CSI, a recently discovered radio-frequency (RF)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Ruiqi Kong , He Chen