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RF data-driven device fingerprinting through the use of deep learning has recently surfaced as a potential solution for automated network access authentication. Traditional approaches are commonly susceptible to the domain adaptation…

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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

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

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

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

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 (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

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

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

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 (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

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

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

Change detection in remote sensing imagery plays a vital role in various engineering applications, such as natural disaster monitoring, urban expansion tracking, and infrastructure management. Despite the remarkable progress of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Xiaoyang Zhang , Guodong Fan , Guang-Yong Chen , Zhen Hua , Jinjiang Li , Min Gan , C. L. Philip Chen

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

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

Recognition across domains has recently become an active topic in the research community. However, it has been largely overlooked in the problem of recognition in new unseen domains. Under this condition, the delivered deep network models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Thanh-Dat Truong , Chi Nhan Duong , Khoa Luu , Minh-Triet Tran , Ngan Le

Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) is a promising device authentication technique based on the transmitter hardware impairments. In this paper, we propose a scalable and robust RFFI framework achieved by deep learning powered…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-08 Guanxiong Shen , Junqing Zhang , Alan Marshall , Joseph Cavallaro

Improving the generalization ability of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is critical for their practical uses, which has been a longstanding challenge. Some theoretical studies have uncovered that DNNs have preferences for some frequency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Shiqi Lin , Zhizheng Zhang , Zhipeng Huang , Yan Lu , Cuiling Lan , Peng Chu , Quanzeng You , Jiang Wang , Zicheng Liu , Amey Parulkar , Viraj Navkal , Zhibo Chen
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