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With the rapid proliferation of wireless and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, ensuring secure and reliable device identification has become a significant challenge. Traditional security techniques, such as IP or MAC address-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Liu Yang , Qiang Li , Xiaoyang Ren

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

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

Ultra-wideband (UWB) is a state-of-the-art technology designed for applications requiring centimeter-level localization. Its widespread adoption by smartphone manufacturer naturally raises security and privacy concerns. Successfully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Thibaud Ardoin , Niklas Pauli , Benedikt Groß , Mahsa Kholghi , Khan Reaz , Gerhard Wunder

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

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

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

In Internet of Things (IoT), radio frequency fingerprints (RFF) technology has been widely used for passive security authentication to identify the special emitter. However, few works took advantage of independent oscillator distortions at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-12 Xiaofang Chen , Wenbo Xu , Yue Wang

In Internet of Things, where billions of devices with limited resources are communicating with each other, security has become a major stumbling block affecting the progress of this technology. Existing authentication schemes-based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Sekhar Rajendran , Zhi Sun , Feng Lin , Kui Ren

Node forgery or impersonation, in which legitimate cryptographic credentials are captured by an adversary, constitutes one major security threat facing wireless networks. The fact that mobile devices are prone to be compromised and reverse…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Qiang Xu , Rong Zheng , Walid Saad , Zhu Han

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 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

Fingerprinting radio frequency (RF) emitters typically involves finding unique characteristics that are featured in their received signal. These fingerprints are nuanced, but sufficiently detailed, motivating the pursuit of methods that can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Alex Hiles , Bashar I. Ahmad

Radio frequency fingerprint (RFF) is a promising device identification technology, with recent research shifting from robustness to security due to growing concerns over vulnerabilities. To date, while the security of RFF against basic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zhou Xu , Guyue Li , Zhe Peng , Aiqun Hu

We address the critical problem of interference rejection in radio-frequency (RF) signals using a data-driven approach that leverages deep-learning methods. A primary contribution of this paper is the introduction of the RF Challenge, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Alejandro Lancho , Amir Weiss , Gary C. F. Lee , Tejas Jayashankar , Binoy Kurien , Yury Polyanskiy , Gregory W. Wornell

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

The widespread use of smart devices gives rise to both security and privacy concerns. Fingerprinting smart devices can assist in authenticating physical devices, but it can also jeopardize privacy by allowing remote identification without…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-03-14 Anupam Das , Nikita Borisov , Matthew Caesar

Intrusion detection has become one of the most critical tasks in a wireless network to prevent service outages that can take long to fix. The sheer variety of anomalous events necessitates adopting cognitive anomaly detection methods…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-19 Nistha Tandiya , Ahmad Jauhar , Vuk Marojevic , Jeffrey H. Reed

Radio Frequency Fingerprinting Identification (RFFI) is a lightweight physical layer identity authentication technique. It identifies the radio-frequency device by analyzing the signal feature differences caused by the inevitable minor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Donghong Cai , Jiahao Shan , Ning Gao , Bingtao He , Yingyang Chen , Shi Jin , Pingzhi Fan

Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) can uniquely classify wireless devices by analyzing the received signal distortions caused by the intrinsic hardware impairments. The state-of-the-art deep learning techniques such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Guanxiong Shen , Junqing Zhang , Alan Marshall , Mikko Valkama , Joseph Cavallaro