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With wearable devices such as smartwatches on the rise in the consumer electronics market, securing these wearables is vital. However, the current security mechanisms only focus on validating the user not the device itself. Indeed,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Hidayet Aksu , A. Selcuk Uluagac , Elizabeth S. Bentley

The popularity of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices makes it increasingly important to be able to fingerprint them, for example in order to detect if there are misbehaving or even malicious IoT devices in one's network. The aim of this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Poonam Yadav , Angelo Feraudo , Budi Arief , Siamak F. Shahandashti , Vassilios G. Vassilakis

802.11 device fingerprinting is the action of characterizing a target device through its wireless traffic. This results in a signature that may be used for identification, network monitoring or intrusion detection. The fingerprinting method…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-04-28 Christoph Neumann , Olivier Heen , Stéphane Onno

The device fingerprinting technique extracts fingerprints based on the hardware characteristics of the device to identify the device. The primary goal of device fingerprinting is to accurately and uniquely identify a device, which requires…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Dawei Li , Di Liu , Yangkun Ren , Ziyi Wang , Yu Sun , Zhenyu Guan , Qianhong Wu , Jianwei Liu

The proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) has introduced a massive influx of devices into the market, bringing with them significant security vulnerabilities. In this diverse ecosystem, robust IoT device identification is a critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Kahraman Kostas

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

In this paper, we propose Device Authentication Code (DAC), a novel method for authenticating IoT devices with wireless interface by exploiting their radio frequency (RF) signatures. The proposed DAC is based on RF fingerprinting,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Joshua Bassey , Xiangfang Li , Lijun Qian

Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices are known to be the source of many security problems, and as such, they would greatly benefit from automated management. This requires robustly identifying devices so that appropriate network security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Roman Kolcun , Diana Andreea Popescu , Vadim Safronov , Poonam Yadav , Anna Maria Mandalari , Richard Mortier , Hamed Haddadi

The deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT) in smart cities and critical infrastructure has enhanced connectivity and real-time data exchange but introduced significant security challenges. While effective, cryptography can often be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Ahmed Mohamed Hussain , Nada Abughanam , Panos Papadimitratos

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

We present a hardware-integrated security framework for LiFi networks through device fingerprint extraction within the IEEE 802.15.7 protocol. Our Optic Fingerprint (OFP) model utilizes inherent LED nonlinearities to generate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-18 Ziqi Liu , Xuanbang Chen , Xun Zhang

The connectivity and resource-constrained nature of single-board devices open the door to cybersecurity concerns affecting Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios. One of the most important issues is the presence of unauthorized IoT devices that…

Radio frequency (RF) fingerprint technology is utilized for wireless device identification, extensively employed in the internet of things (IoT). The operating environment for IoT devices is challenging, with pervasive noise and distortion…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-19 Junxian Shi , Linning Peng , Wentao Jing , Lingnan Xie , Haichuan Peng , Aiqun Hu

The proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to the emergence of crowdsensing applications, where a multitude of interconnected devices collaboratively collect and analyze data. Ensuring the authenticity and integrity of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Pedro Miguel Sánchez Sánchez , Alberto Huertas Celdrán , Gérôme Bovet , Gregorio Martínez Pérez

We study the problem of inferring the type of a networked device in a home network by leveraging low level traffic activity indicators seen at commodity home gateways. We analyze a dataset of detailed device network activity obtained from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili , Jaideep Chandrashekar , Pascal Le Guyadec

Reaping the benefits of the Internet of things (IoT) system is contingent upon developing IoT-specific security solutions. Conventional security and authentication solutions often fail to meet IoT security requirements due to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Yaman Sharaf Dabbagh , Walid Saad

Device fingerprinting is a widely used technique that allows a third party to identify a particular device. Applications of device fingerprinting include authentication, attacker identification, or software license binding. Device…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Alberto Fernandez-de-Retana , Igor Santos-Grueiro

Deep learning-enabled device fingerprinting has proven efficient in enabling automated identification and authentication of transmitting devices. It does so by leveraging the transmitters' unique features that are inherent to hardware…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Bechir Hamdaoui , Nora Basha , Kathiravetpillai Sivanesan

In the current network-based computing world, where the number of interconnected devices grows exponentially, their diversity, malfunctions, and cybersecurity threats are increasing at the same rate. To guarantee the correct functioning and…

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Francesco Restuccia , Salvatore D'Oro , Amani Al-Shawabka , Mauro Belgiovine , Luca Angioloni , Stratis Ioannidis , Kaushik Chowdhury , Tommaso Melodia