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We present a new RF fingerprinting technique for wireless emitters that is based on a simple, easily and efficiently retrainable Ridge Regression (RR) classifier. The RR learns to identify devices using bursts of waveform samples,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Silvija Kokalj-Filipovic , Luke Boegner , Robert D. Miller

Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) is a lightweight device authentication technique particularly desirable for power-constrained devices, e.g., the Internet of things (IoT) devices. Similar to biometric fingerprinting, RFFI…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-27 Lu Yang , Seyit Camtepe , Yansong Gao , Vicky Liu , Dhammika Jayalath

The accurate identification of wireless devices is critical for enabling automated network access monitoring and authenticated data communication in large-scale networks; e.g., IoT. RF fingerprinting has emerged as a solution for device…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Nora Basha , Bechir Hamdaoui

Radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting is a tool which allows for authentication by utilizing distinct and random distortions in a received signal based on characteristics of the transmitter. We introduce a deep learning-based authentication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Justin McMillen , Gokhan Mumcu , Yasin Yilmaz

Deep-learning-based device fingerprinting has recently been recognized as a key enabler for automated network access authentication. Its robustness to impersonation attacks due to the inherent difficulty of replicating physical features is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Bechir Hamdaoui , Abdurrahman Elmaghbub

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

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

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

Radio Frequency Fingerprint (RFF) identification on account of deep learning has the potential to enhance the security performance of wireless networks. Recently, several RFF datasets were proposed to satisfy requirements of large-scale…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-17 Shupeng Zhang , Yibin Zhang , Xixi Zhang , Jinlong Sun , Yun Lin , Haris Gacanin , Fumiyuki Adachi , Guan Gui

Radio Frequency (RF) fingerprinting offers a promising approach for drone identification and security, although it suffers from significant performance degradation when operating on different transmission channels. This paper presents…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Fahrettin Emin Tiras , Hayriye Serra Altinoluk

Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) distinguishes wireless devices by the small variations in their analog circuits, avoiding heavy cryptographic authentication. While deep learning on spectrograms improves accuracy, models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Aarushi Mahajan , Wayne Burleson

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 fingerprint identification (RFFI) is a promising device authentication approach by exploiting the unique hardware impairments as device identifiers. Because the hardware features are extracted from the received waveform,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-12 Lingnan Xie , Linning Peng , Junqing Zhang

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

Millions of RFID tags are pervasively used all around the globe to inexpensively identify a wide variety of everyday-use objects. One of the key issues of RFID is that tags cannot use energy-hungry cryptography. For this reason, radio…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Mauro Piva , Gaia Maselli , Francesco Restuccia

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

Fifth generation (5G) network and beyond envision massive Internet of Things (IoT) rollout to support disruptive applications such as extended reality (XR), augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR), industrial automation, autonomous driving, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Anu Jagannath , Jithin Jagannath , Prem Sagar Pattanshetty Vasanth Kumar

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

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

The rapidly increasing number of internet of things (IoT) and non-IoT devices has imposed new security challenges to network administrators. Accurate device identification in the increasingly complex network structures is necessary. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Rajarshi Roy Chowdhury , Azam Che Idris , Pg Emeroylariffion Abas