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Biometrics deals with identity verification of an individual by using certain physiological or behavioral features associated with a person. Biometric identification systems using fingerprints patterns are called AFIS (Automatic Fingerprint…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-05-25 Najme Zehra , Mansi Sharma , Somya Ahuja , Shubha Bansal

Accurate and robust wireless localization is a key enabler for a wide range of mobile computing applications. Fingerprint-based localization using channel state information (CSI) has attracted significant attention due to its high accuracy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Haoyu Huang , Guangjin Pan , Kaixuan Huang , Shunqing Zhang , Yuhao Zhang , Musa Furkan Keskin , Zheng Xing , Henk Wymeersch

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

Indoor localization is getting increasing demands for various cutting-edged technologies, like Virtual/Augmented reality and smart home. Traditional model-based localization suffers from significant computational overhead, so fingerprint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Ruihao Yuan , Kaixuan Huang , Pan Yang , Shunqing Zhang

While the literature on RF fingerprinting-based authentication and key distillation is vast, the two topics have customarily been studied separately. In this paper, starting from the observation that the wireless channel is a composite,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-02 Muralikrishnan Srinivasan , Sotiris Skaperas , Arsenia Chorti , Mahdi Shakiba Herfeh , Muhammad K. Shehzad , Philippe Sehier

In this paper we present an interference detection toolbox consisting of a high dynamic range Digital Fast-Fourier-Transform spectrometer (DFFT, based on FPGA-technology) and data analysis software for automated radio frequency interference…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Benjamin Winkel , Juergen Kerp , Stephan Stanko

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

Deep learning-based channel state information (CSI) feedback schemes demonstrate strong compression capabilities but are typically constrained to fixed system configurations, limiting their generalization and flexibility. To address this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-08 Xuanyu Liu , Shijian Gao , Boxun Liu , Xiang Cheng , Liuqing Yang

Covert channels (CCs) in wireless chips pose a serious security threat, as they enable the exfiltration of sensitive information from the chip to an external attacker. In this work, we propose an AI-based defense mechanism deployed at the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Abdelrahman Emad Abdelazim , Alan Rodrigo Diaz-Rizo , Hassan Aboushady , Haralampos-G. Stratigopoulos

Wi-Fi systems based on the IEEE 802.11 standards are the most popular wireless interfaces that use Listen Before Talk (LBT) method for channel access. The distinctive feature of a majority of LBT-based systems is that the transmitters use…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Vukan Ninkovic , Aleksandar Valka , Dejan Dumic , Dejan Vukobratovic

Device fingerprinting leverages attributes that capture heterogeneity in hardware and software configurations to extract unique and stable fingerprints. Fingerprinting countermeasures attempt to either present a uniform fingerprint across…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Hari Venugopalan , Kaustav Goswami , Zainul Abi Din , Jason Lowe-Power , Samuel T. King , Zubair Shafiq

Physical layer authentication relies on detecting unique imperfections in signals transmitted by radio devices to isolate their fingerprint. Recently, deep learning-based authenticators have increasingly been proposed to classify devices…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Samurdhi Karunaratne , Enes Krijestorac , Danijela Cabric

RF fingerprinting leverages circuit-level variability of transmitters to identify them using signals they send. Signals used for identification are impacted by a wireless channel and receiver circuitry, creating additional impairments that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-13 Samer Hanna , Samurdhi Karunaratne , Danijela Cabric

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

Radio-frequency identification(RFID) technology is widely applied in daily human life. The RFID cards are seen everywhere, from entrance guard to consumption. The information security of RFID cards, such as data confidentiality, tag…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Zheng Zhou , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

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

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

Identifying IoT devices is crucial for network monitoring, security enforcement, and inventory tracking. However, most existing identification methods rely on deep packet inspection, which raises privacy concerns and adds computational…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Bhagyashri Tushir , Vikram K Ramanna , Yuhong Liu , Behnam Dezfouli

We present two algorithms to identify and flag radio frequency interference (RFI) in radio interferometric imaging data. The first algorithm utilizes the redundancy of visibilities inside a UV cell in the visibility plane to identify…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-27 Srikrishna Sekhar , Ramana Athreya

The paradigm shift from environment-unaware communication to intelligent environment-aware communication is expected to facilitate the acquisition of channel state information for future wireless communications. Channel Fingerprint (CF), as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zhenzhou Jin , Li You , Xiang-Gen Xia , Xiqi Gao