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In the wake of increasing numbers of attacks on radio communication systems, a range of techniques are being deployed to increase the security of these systems. One such technique is radio fingerprinting, in which the transmitter can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Joshua Smailes , Edd Salkield , Sebastian Köhler , Simon Birnbach , Martin Strohmeier , Ivan Martinovic

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

Recent years have witnessed the bloom development of the human-centered wireless sensing applications, in which some human information, such as the user's identity and motions, can be retrieved through analyzing the signal distortion caused…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Jianwei Liu , Jinsong Han , Lei Yang , Fei Wang , Feng Lin , Kui Ren

A "wireless fingerprint" which exploits hardware imperfections unique to each device is a potentially powerful tool for wireless security. Such a fingerprint should be able to distinguish between devices sending the same message, and should…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-27 Soorya Gopalakrishnan , Metehan Cekic , Upamanyu Madhow

Physical isolation from external networks - an airgap - aims to minimize exposure to remote attacks. Yet capable adversaries still achieve code execution on air-gapped systems, and prior work has shown that they can then wirelessly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Paul Staat , Daniel Davidovich , Christof Paar

This paper introduces CSI-RFF, a new framework that leverages micro-signals embedded within Channel State Information (CSI) curves to realize Radio-Frequency Fingerprinting of commodity off-the-shelf (COTS) WiFi devices for open-set…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-27 Ruiqi Kong , He Chen

Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) is an emerging technique for the lightweight authentication of wireless Internet of things (IoT) devices. RFFI exploits unique hardware impairments as device identifiers, and deep learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Jie Ma , Junqing Zhang , Guanxiong Shen , Alan Marshall , Chip-Hong Chang

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 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

Deep learning-based radio frequency fingerprinting (RFFP) has become an enabling physical-layer security technology, allowing device identification and authentication through received RF signals. This technology, however, faces significant…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Haytham Albousayri , Bechir Hamdaoui , Weng-Keen Wong , Nora Basha

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

RF devices can be identified by unique imperfections embedded in the signals they transmit called RF fingerprints. The closed set classification of such devices, where the identification must be made among an authorized set of transmitters,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Samurdhi Karunaratne , Samer Hanna , Danijela Cabric

The deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT) in smart cities and critical infrastructure has enhanced connectivity and real-time data exchange but introduced significant security challenges. While effective, cryptography can often be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Ahmed Mohamed Hussain , Nada Abughanam , Panos Papadimitratos

802.11 device fingerprinting is the action of characterizing a target device through its wireless traffic. This results in a signature that may be used for identification, network monitoring or intrusion detection. The fingerprinting method…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-04-28 Christoph Neumann , Olivier Heen , Stéphane Onno

The growing number of wireless devices increases the need for secure network access. Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (RFF), a physical-layer authentication method, offers a promising solution as it requires no cryptography and resists…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Rundong Jiang , Jun Hu , Zhiyuan Xie , Yunqi Song , Shiyou Xu

This paper presents a novel method for classifying radio frequency (RF) devices from their transmission signals. Given a collection of signals from identical devices, we accurately classify both the distance of the transmission and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-13 Ryan M. Dreifuerst , Andrew Graff , Sidharth Kumar , Clive Unger , Dylan Bray

Radio-frequency fingerprints~(RFFs) are promising solutions for realizing low-cost physical layer authentication. Machine learning-based methods have been proposed for RFF extraction and discrimination. However, most existing methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Renjie Xie , Wei Xu , Yanzhi Chen , Jiabao Yu , Aiqun Hu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Fingerprint alteration, also referred to as obfuscation presentation attack, is to intentionally tamper or damage the real friction ridge patterns to avoid identification by an AFIS. This paper proposes a method for detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Elham Tabassi , Tarang Chugh , Debayan Deb , Anil K. Jain

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

In physical-layer security schemes, radio frequency fingerprint (RFF) identification of WiFi devices is susceptible to receiver differences, which can significantly degrade classification performance when a model is trained on one receiver…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Xuan Yang , Dongming Li , Dong Wei , Meng Zhang