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RF data-driven device fingerprinting through the use of deep learning has recently surfaced as a possible method for enabling secure device identification and authentication. Traditional approaches are commonly susceptible to the domain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Benjamin Johnson , Bechir Hamdaoui

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

Deep learning (DL)-based RF fingerprinting (RFFP) technology has emerged as a powerful physical-layer security mechanism, enabling device identification and authentication based on unique device-specific signatures that can be extracted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Abdurrahman Elmaghbub , Bechir Hamdaoui

As the journey of 5G standardization is coming to an end, academia and industry have already begun to consider the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, with an aim to meet the service demands for the next decade. Deep learning-based RF…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Abdurrahman Elmaghbub , Bechir Hamdaoui , Weng-Keen Wong

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

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

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

Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification (RFFI), which exploits non-ideal hardware-induced unique distortion resident in the transmit signals to identify an emitter, is emerging as a means to enhance the security of communication systems.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-15 Liu Yang , Qiang Li , Xiaoyang Ren , Yi Fang , Shafei Wang

Radio frequency fingerprinting (RFF) is a promising device authentication technique for securing the Internet of things. It exploits the intrinsic and unique hardware impairments of the transmitters for RF device identification. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-26 Yuan Zeng , Yi Gong , Jiawei Liu , Shangao Lin , Zidong Han , Ruoxiao Cao , Kaibin Huang , Khaled Ben Letaief

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting for wireless device authentication. However, their practical deployment faces two major limitations: domain shift, where models trained in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Tianya Zhao , Junqing Zhang , Haowen Xu , Xiaoyan Sun , Jun Dai , Xuyu Wang

Deep learning based device fingerprinting has emerged as a key method of identifying and authenticating devices solely via their captured RF transmissions. Conventional approaches are not portable to different domains in that if a model is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Jared Gaskin , Bechir Hamdaoui , Weng-Keen Wong

Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (RFF) techniques promise to authenticate wireless devices at the physical layer based on inherent hardware imperfections introduced during manufacturing. Such RF transmitter imperfections are reflected into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Saeif Al-Hazbi , Ahmed Hussain , Savio Sciancalepore , Gabriele Oligeri , Panos Papadimitratos

As IoT technologies mature, they are increasingly finding their way into more sensitive domains, such as Medical and Industrial IoT, in which safety and cyber-security are of great importance. While the number of deployed IoT devices…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Emmanuel Lomba , Ricardo Severino , Ana Fernández Vilas

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

In response to the rapid growth of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and rising security risks, Radio Frequency Fingerprint (RFF) has become key for device identification and authentication. However, various changing factors - beyond the RFF…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Yezhuo Zhang , Zinan Zhou , Guangyu Li , Xuanpeng Li

Radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting, which extracts unique hardware imperfections of radio devices, has emerged as a promising physical-layer device identification mechanism in zero trust architectures and beyond 5G networks. In particular,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Xinyu Cao , Bimal Adhikari , Shangqing Zhao , Jingxian Wu , Yanjun Pan

Federated learning improves data privacy and efficiency in machine learning performed over networks of distributed devices, such as mobile phones, IoT and wearable devices, etc. Yet models trained with federated learning can still fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Xingchao Peng , Zijun Huang , Yizhe Zhu , Kate Saenko

Deep learning (DL) applied to a device's radio-frequency fingerprint~(RFF) has attracted significant attention in physical-layer authentication due to its extraordinary classification performance. Conventional DL-RFF techniques are trained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Renjie Xie , Wei Xu , Jiabao Yu , Aiqun Hu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Generalizability of deep learning models may be severely affected by the difference in the distributions of the train (source domain) and the test (target domain) sets, e.g., when the sets are produced by different hardware. As a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Ivan Zakazov , Vladimir Shaposhnikov , Iaroslav Bespalov , Dmitry V. Dylov

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
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