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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

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

The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has increased the need for secure authentication. While traditional encryption-based solutions can be robust, they often impose high computational and energy overhead on resource-limited…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-06 Muhammad Aqib Khan , Muhammad Usman Siddiqui

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 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

This paper presents an experimental study on radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting of Bluetooth Classic devices. Our research aims to provide a practical evaluation of the possibilities for RF fingerprinting of everyday Bluetooth connected…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-12 Artis Rušiņš , Krišjānis Nesenbergs , Deniss Tiščenko , Pēteris Paikens

The imperfections in the RF frontend of different transmitters can be used to distinguish them. This process is called transmitter identification using RF fingerprints. The nonlinearity in the power amplifier of the RF frontend is a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-13 Samer S. Hanna , Danijela Cabric

Location based services, already popular with end users, are now inevitably becoming part of new wireless infrastructures and emerging business processes. The increasingly popular Deep Learning (DL) artificial intelligence methods perform…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Gregor Cerar , Blaž Bertalanič , Carolina Fortuna

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

Deep Learning-based RF fingerprinting approaches struggle to perform well in cross-domain scenarios, particularly during hardware warm-up. This often-overlooked vulnerability has been jeopardizing their reliability and their adoption in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Abdurrahman Elmaghbub , Bechir Hamdaoui

Location based services, already popular with end users, are now inevitably becoming part of new wireless infrastructures and emerging business processes. The increasingly popular Deep Learning (DL) artificial intelligence methods perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Anže Pirnat , Blaž Bertalanič , Gregor Cerar , Mihael Mohorčič , Marko Meža , Carolina Fortuna

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) 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

Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (RFF) has evolved as an effective solution for authenticating devices by leveraging the unique imperfections in hardware components involved in the signal generation process. In this work, we propose a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Raju Dhakal , Prashant Shekhar , Laxima Niure Kandel

Eliminating the influence of temporally varying channel components on the radio frequency fingerprint (RFF) extraction has been an enduring and challenging issue. To overcome this problem, we propose a channel-independent RFF extraction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Tianshu Chen , Aiqun Hu , Shiqi Zhang

Considered as a data-driven approach, Fingerprinting Localization Solutions (FPSs) enjoy huge popularity due to their good performance and minimal environment information requirement. This papers addresses applications of artificial…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Linchen Xiao , Arash Behboodi , Rudolf Mathar

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

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) 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

We present complex-valued Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for RF fingerprinting that go beyond translation invariance and appropriately account for the inductive bias with respect to multipath propagation channels, a phenomenon that is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Carter N. Brown , Enrico Mattei , Andrew Draganov