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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

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

Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (RFF) is one of the promising passive authentication approaches for improving the security of the Internet of Things (IoT). However, with the proliferation of low-power IoT devices, it becomes imperative to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-23 Jiabao Yu , Aiqun Hu , Fen Zhou , Yuexiu Xing , Yi Yu , Guyue Li , Linning Peng

The intrinsic hardware imperfection of WiFi chipsets manifests itself in the transmitted signal, leading to a unique radiometric fingerprint. This fingerprint can be used as an additional means of authentication to enhance security. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Luis F. Abanto-Leon , Andreas Baeuml , Gek Hong , Sim , Matthias Hollick , Arash Asadi

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 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

As a promising non-password authentication technology, radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting can greatly improve wireless security. Recent work has shown that RF fingerprinting based on deep learning can significantly outperform conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-01 Weidong Wang , Cheng Luo , Jiancheng An , Lu Gan , Hongshu Liao , Chau Yuen

Identity authentication is crucial for ensuring the information security of wireless communication. Radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting techniques provide a prom-ising supplement to cryptography-based authentication approaches but rely on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Junjie Wang , Yong Huang , Feiyang Zhao , Wenjing Wang , Dalong Zhang , Wei Wang

In this article, we briefly review the history of the use of radio signals to identify objects, and of the key Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) standards for ultra-high-frequency (UHF) and near-field communications that enabled broad…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Christopher Saetia , Daniel M. Dobkin , Gregory Durgin

Near Field Communication (NFC) is widely used in security applications such as door access systems and ID cards. However, clone attacks can replicate digital information, enabling unauthorized access. RF fingerprinting offers a robust…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-14 Dickson Akuoko Sarpong , Adam Kamrath , Rohit Bhusal , Hongzhi Guo

We present a new RF fingerprinting technique for wireless emitters that is based on a simple, easily and efficiently retrainable Ridge Regression (RR) classifier. The RR learns to identify devices using bursts of waveform samples,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Silvija Kokalj-Filipovic , Luke Boegner , Robert D. Miller

The accurate identification of wireless devices is critical for enabling automated network access monitoring and authenticated data communication in large-scale networks; e.g., IoT. RF fingerprinting has emerged as a solution for device…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Nora Basha , Bechir Hamdaoui

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) increasingly contaminates the radio astronomy spectrum, often exceeding astronomical signal amplitudes by 50-70 dB. Reliable detection and mitigation are therefore essential for studies of faint transient…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Natalia A. Schmid , Sasanka Katreddi , Yechan Kweon

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

Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) is an emerging technique for the lightweight authentication of wireless Internet of things (IoT) devices. RFFI exploits deep learning models to extract hardware impairments to uniquely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jie Ma , Junqing Zhang , Guanxiong Shen , Alan Marshall , Chip-Hong Chang

It is estimated that the number of IoT devices will reach 75 billion in the next five years. Most of those currently, and to be deployed, lack sufficient security to protect themselves and their networks from attack by malicious IoT devices…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-18 Donald Reising , Joseph Cancelleri , T. Daniel Loveless , Farah Kandah , Anthony Skjellum

Accurate channel state information (CSI) acquisition for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems is essential for future mobile communication networks. Channel fingerprint (CF), also referred to as channel knowledge map, is a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Zhenzhou Jin , Li You , Xudong Li , Zhen Gao , Yuanwei Liu , Xiang-Gen Xia , Xiqi Gao

Multi-band massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication can promote the cooperation of licensed and unlicensed spectra, effectively enhancing spectrum efficiency for Wi-Fi and other wireless systems. As an enabler for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Chenjie Xie , Li You , Zhenzhou Jin , Jinke Tang , Xiqi Gao , Xiang-Gen Xia

Deep learning has been widely used in radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting. Despite its excellent performance, most existing methods only consider a closed-set assumption, which cannot effectively tackle signals emitted from those unknown…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Weidong Wang , Hongshu Liao , Lu Gan

This paper presents a novel algorithm for residual phase estimation in wireless OFDM systems, including the carrier frequency offset (CFO) and the sampling frequency offset (SFO). The subcarriers are partitioned into several regions which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-09 Chen Chen , Yun Chen , Xiaoyang Zeng