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Deep-learning (DL) has emerged as a powerful machine-learning technique for several classic problems encountered in generic wireless communications. Specifically, random Fourier Features (RFF) based deep-learning has emerged as an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Rangeet Mitra , Georges Kaddoum

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 fingerprint (RFF) identification technology, which exploits relatively stable hardware imperfections, is highly susceptible to constantly changing channel effects. Although various channel-robust RFF feature extraction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Xuan Yang , Dongming Li , Yi Lou , Xianglin Fan

We present an approach to identifying wireless microwave tags using radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting and machine learning. The tags are designed for low cost and simplicity, consisting of only two antennas and a single nonlinear element…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Cory Hilton , Mohammad Rashid , Faiz Sherman , Steven Bush , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

Radio frequency (RF) signal recognition plays a critical role in modern wireless communication and security applications. Deep learning-based approaches have achieved strong performance but typically rely heavily on extensive training data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Lukas Henneke , Frank Kurth

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

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

This paper presents DeepCRF, a new framework that harnesses deep learning to extract subtle micro-signals from channel state information (CSI) measurements, enabling robust and resilient radio-frequency fingerprinting (RFF) of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Ruiqi Kong , He Chen

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

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

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

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

Radio frequency fingerprinting has been proposed for device identification. However, experimental studies also demonstrated its sensitivity to deployment changes. Recent works have addressed channel impacts by developing robust algorithms…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-20 Tianyi Zhao , Shamik Sarkar , Enes Krijestorac , Danijela Cabric

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

Radio Frequency fingerprints (RFF) authentication is one of the methods for the physical-layer information security, which uses the hardware characteristics of the transmitter to identify its real identity. In order to improve the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Yan Yan , Hong-lin Yuan , Zhi-hua Bao , Guo-an Zhang

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

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

Most prior works on deep learning-based wireless device classification using radio frequency (RF) data apply off-the-shelf deep neural network (DNN) models, which were matured mainly for domains like vision and language. However, wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-07 Bechir Hamdaoui , Abdurrahman Elmaghbub , Seifeddine Mejri

Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (RFF) offers a unique method for identifying devices at the physical (PHY) layer based on their RF emissions due to intrinsic hardware differences. Nevertheless, RFF techniques depend on the ability to extract…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Muhammad Irfan , Savio Sciancalepore , Gabriele Oligeri

An estimation method of Radio Frequency fingerprint (RFF) based on the physical hardware properties of the nonlinearity and in-phase and quadrature (IQ) imbalance of the transmitter is proposed for the authentication of wireless orthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Honglin Yuan , Jiangzhou Wang , Chen Xu , Juping Gu , Qiang Sun , Yan Yan , Zhihua Bao