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Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) is becoming increasingly popular, especially in applications with constrained power, such as the Internet of Things (IoT). Due to subtle manufacturing variations, wireless devices have…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-11 Lu Yang , Seyit Camtepe , Yansong Gao , Vicky Liu , Dhammika Jayalath

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

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 to identify a wireless device from its uniqueness of the analog circuitry or hardware imperfections. However, unlike the MAC address which can be modified, such hardware feature is inevitable for the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Zhaoyi Lu , Wenchao Xu , Ming Tu , Xin Xie , Cunqing Hua , Nan Cheng

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

Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) exploits device-specific hardware impairments for transmitter recognition, but its performance is highly vulnerable to receiver variations and changing wireless channels in cross-receiver…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Jiashuo He , Yumeng Wang , Feiyang He , Sai Huang , Yiheng Liu , Shuo Chang , Zhiyong Feng

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

Specific Emitter Identification (SEI) detects, characterizes, and identifies emitters by exploiting distinct, inherent, and unintentional features in their transmitted signals. Since its introduction, a significant amount of work has been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Joshua H. Tyler , Mohamed K. M. Fadul , Matthew R. Hilling , Donald R. Reising , T. Daniel Loveless

Fifth generation (5G) network and beyond envision massive Internet of Things (IoT) rollout to support disruptive applications such as extended reality (XR), augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR), industrial automation, autonomous driving, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Anu Jagannath , Jithin Jagannath , Prem Sagar Pattanshetty Vasanth Kumar

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 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

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

Specific emitter identification (SEI) plays an increasingly crucial and potential role in both military and civilian scenarios. It refers to a process to discriminate individual emitters from each other by analyzing extracted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Xue Fu , Yang Peng , Yuchao Liu , Yun Lin , Guan Gui , Haris Gacanin , Fumiyuki Adachi

Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (RFF) techniques allow a receiver to authenticate a transmitter by analyzing the physical layer of the radio spectrum. Although the vast majority of scientific contributions focus on improving the performance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Gabriele Oligeri , Savio Sciancalepore

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

Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based radio fingerprinting (FP) outperforms classic localization methods in propagation environments with strong multipath effects. However, the model and data orchestration of FP are time-consuming and costly,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-02 Jonathan Ott , Jonas Pirkl , Maximilian Stahlke , Tobias Feigl , Christopher Mutschler

Authorization systems are increasingly relying on processing radio frequency (RF) waveforms at receivers to fingerprint (i.e., determine the identity) of the corresponding transmitter. Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a popular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-07 Kiarash Kianfar , Rajeev Sahay

With the rapid proliferation of edge computing, Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification (RFFI) has become increasingly important for secure device authentication. However, practical deployment of deep learning-based RFFI models is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Liu Yang , Qiang Li , Luxiong Wen , Jian Yang

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 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