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Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) is an emerging method for authenticating Internet of Things (IoT) devices. RFFI exploits the intrinsic and unique hardware imperfections for classifying IoT devices. Deep learning-based RFFI…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jie Ma , Junqing Zhang , Guanxiong Shen , Linning Peng , Alan Marshall

Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) can uniquely classify wireless devices by analyzing the received signal distortions caused by the intrinsic hardware impairments. The state-of-the-art deep learning techniques such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Guanxiong Shen , Junqing Zhang , Alan Marshall , Mikko Valkama , Joseph Cavallaro

Radio fingerprinting provides a reliable and energy-efficient IoT authentication strategy. By mapping inputs onto a very large feature space, deep learning algorithms can be trained to fingerprint large populations of devices operating…

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Recompositing channel state information (CSI) from the beamforming feedback matrix (BFM), which is a compressed version of CSI and can be captured because of its lack of encryption, is an alternative way of implementing firmware-agnostic…

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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

Deep learning can be used to classify waveform characteristics (e.g., modulation) with accuracy levels that are hardly attainable with traditional techniques. Recent research has demonstrated that one of the most crucial challenges in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Francesco Restuccia , Salvatore D'Oro , Amani Al-Shawabka , Bruno Costa Rendon , Stratis Ioannidis , Tommaso Melodia

Thanks to the ubiquitous deployment of Wi-Fi hotspots, channel state information (CSI)-based Wi-Fi sensing can unleash game-changing applications in many fields, such as healthcare, security, and entertainment. However, despite one decade…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Marco Cominelli , Francesco Gringoli , Francesco Restuccia

Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) can classify wireless devices by analyzing the signal distortions caused by the intrinsic hardware impairments. State-of-the-art neural networks have been adopted for RFFI. However, many…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-08 Guanxiong Shen , Junqing Zhang , Alan Marshall , Mikko Valkama , Joseph Cavallaro

Radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting exploits hardware imperfections for device identification, but distinguishing between same-model devices remains challenging due to their minimal hardware variations. Existing datasets for RF…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Zewei Guo , Zhen Jia , JinXiao Zhu , Wenhao Huang , Yin Chen

RF fingerprinting leverages circuit-level variability of transmitters to identify them using signals they send. Signals used for identification are impacted by a wireless channel and receiver circuitry, creating additional impairments that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-13 Samer Hanna , Samurdhi Karunaratne , Danijela Cabric

In Internet of Things (IoT), radio frequency fingerprints (RFF) technology has been widely used for passive security authentication to identify the special emitter. However, few works took advantage of independent oscillator distortions at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-12 Xiaofang Chen , Wenbo Xu , Yue Wang

Wi-Fi sensing is an emerging technology that uses channel state information (CSI) from ambient Wi-Fi signals to monitor human activity without the need for dedicated sensors. Wi-Fi sensing does not only represent a pivotal technology in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Paolo Cerutti , Fabio Palmese , Marco Cominelli , Alessandro E. C. Redondi

In multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, the high-resolution channel information (CSI) is required at the base station (BS) to ensure optimal performance, especially in the case of multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) systems. In the absence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Pranav Madadi , Jeongho Jeon , Joonyoung Cho , Caleb Lo , Juho Lee , Jianzhong Zhang

Physical layer (PHY) steganography conceals secrets by making subtle modifications to transmitted radio waveforms, which can be applied to establish covert communication systems. Given the widespread deployment of Wi-Fi infrastructures,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Jiamu Guo , Hailang Jia , Guanxiong Shen , Junqing Zhang , Linning Peng , Liquan Chen

Channel state information (CSI)-based fingerprinting via neural networks (NNs) is a promising approach to enable accurate indoor and outdoor positioning of user equipments (UEs), even under challenging propagation conditions. In this paper,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Emre Gönültaş , Eric Lei , Jack Langerman , Howard Huang , Christoph Studer

With the rapid evolution of wireless technologies, Wi-Fi has expanded beyond its original role in data transmission to support various emerging applications, particularly in physical-layer security, including device authentication, user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Jingzhe Zhang , Yitong Shen , Ning Wang , Yili Ren

With the ever-increasing demand for high-speed wireless data transmission, beamforming techniques have been proven to be crucial in improving the data rate and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the receiver. However, they require feedback…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-08 Mrugen Deshmukh , Zinan Lin , Hanqing Lou , Mahmoud Kamel , Rui Yang , Ismail Guvenc

SiFo, a wireless foundation model-based framework, is proposed for low-overhead site-specific channel state information (CSI) feedback. In 3GPP NR, Type-II feedback provides an expressive codebook-based CSI representation, but it requires…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Cheng-Jie Zhao , Zhaolin Wang , Zongyao Zhao , Yuanwei Liu

Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification (RFFI) technology uniquely identifies emitters by analyzing unique distortions in the transmitted signal caused by non-ideal hardware. Recently, RFFI based on deep learning methods has gained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-07 Ying Zhang , Qiang Li , Hongli Liu , Liu Yang , Jian Yang

In Internet of Things, where billions of devices with limited resources are communicating with each other, security has become a major stumbling block affecting the progress of this technology. Existing authentication schemes-based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Sekhar Rajendran , Zhi Sun , Feng Lin , Kui Ren