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We present complex-valued Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for RF fingerprinting that go beyond translation invariance and appropriately account for the inductive bias with respect to multipath propagation channels, a phenomenon that is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Carter N. Brown , Enrico Mattei , Andrew Draganov

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

With the development and widespread use of wireless devices in recent years (mobile phones, Internet of Things, Wi-Fi), the electromagnetic spectrum has become extremely crowded. In order to counter security threats posed by rogue or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-09 K. Youssef , Louis-S. Bouchard , K. Z. Haigh , H. Krovi , J. Silovsky , C. P. Vander Valk

Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) is a lightweight device authentication technique particularly desirable for power-constrained devices, e.g., the Internet of things (IoT) devices. Similar to biometric fingerprinting, RFFI…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-27 Lu Yang , Seyit Camtepe , Yansong Gao , Vicky Liu , Dhammika Jayalath

Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) is an emerging device authentication technique that relies on intrinsic hardware characteristics of wireless devices. We designed an RFFI scheme for Long Range (LoRa) systems based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-06 Guanxiong Shen , Junqing Zhang , Alan Marshall , Linning Peng , Xianbin Wang

This work introduces DeepCRF, a deep learning framework designed for channel state information-based radio frequency fingerprinting (CSI-RFF). The considered CSI-RFF is built on micro-CSI, a recently discovered radio-frequency (RF)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Ruiqi Kong , He Chen

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

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

The growing number of devices using the wireless spectrum makes it important to find ways to minimize interference and optimize the use of the spectrum. Deep learning models, such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have been widely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-14 Taiwo Oyedare , Vijay K. Shah , Daniel J. Jakubisin , Jeffrey H. Reed

Deep learning-based RF fingerprinting has recently been recognized as a potential solution for enabling newly emerging wireless network applications, such as spectrum access policy enforcement, automated network device authentication, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-10 Abdurrahman Elmaghbub , Bechir Hamdaoui

Radio Frequency Fingerprinting through Deep Learning (RFFDL) is a data-driven IoT authentication technique that leverages the unique hardware-level manufacturing imperfections associated with a particular device to recognize (fingerprint)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Amani Al-shawabka , Philip Pietraski , Sudhir B Pattar , Pedram Johari , Tommaso Melodia

The proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) has introduced a massive influx of devices into the market, bringing with them significant security vulnerabilities. In this diverse ecosystem, robust IoT device identification is a critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Kahraman Kostas

Radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting exploits hardware imperfections for device identification, but distinguishing between same-model devices remains challenging due to their minimal hardware variations. Existing datasets for RF…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Zewei Guo , Zhen Jia , JinXiao Zhu , Wenhao Huang , Yin Chen

Biometrics on mobile devices has attracted a lot of attention in recent years as it is considered a user-friendly authentication method. This interest has also been motivated by the success of Deep Learning (DL). Architectures based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Paula Delgado-Santos , Ruben Tolosana , Richard Guest , Farzin Deravi , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez

Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) is an emerging device authentication technique, which exploits the hardware characteristics of the RF front-end as device identifiers. RFFI is implemented in the wireless receiver and acts…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-08 Guanxiong Shen , Junqing Zhang , Alan Marshall , Roger Woods , Joseph Cavallaro , Liquan Chen

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

The rapidly increasing number of internet of things (IoT) and non-IoT devices has imposed new security challenges to network administrators. Accurate device identification in the increasingly complex network structures is necessary. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Rajarshi Roy Chowdhury , Azam Che Idris , Pg Emeroylariffion Abas

Wireless network security may be improved by identifying networked devices via traits that are tied to hardware differences, typically related to unique variations introduced in the manufacturing process. One way these variations manifest…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-11 Abu Bucker Siddik , Dawson Drake , Thomas Wilkinson , Phillip L. De Leon , Steven Sandoval , Margaret Campos

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

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