A comprehensive survey on radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting: Traditional approaches, deep learning, and open challenges

A Jagannath, J Jagannath, PSPV Kumar - Computer Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

A review of radio frequency fingerprinting techniques

N Soltanieh, Y Norouzi, Y Yang… - IEEE Journal of Radio …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting techniques have been used as an extra security layer
for wireless devices. Unique fingerprints are used to identify wireless devices in order to …

Wireless physical-layer identification: Modeling and validation

W Wang, Z Sun, S Piao, B Zhu… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The wireless physical-layer identification (WPLI) techniques utilize the unique features of the
physical waveforms of wireless signals to identify and classify authorized devices. As the …

Physical layer authentication in wireless communication networks: A survey

L Bai, L Zhu, J Liu, J Choi… - Journal of Communications …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Physical layer security (PLS) in wireless communication systems has attracted extensive
research attentions in recent years. Unlike cryptography-based methods applied in upper …

Evaluating physical-layer ble location tracking attacks on mobile devices

H Givehchian, N Bhaskar, ER Herrera… - … IEEE symposium on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile devices increasingly function as wireless tracking beacons. Using the Bluetooth Low
Energy (BLE) protocol, mobile devices such as smartphones and smartwatches …

Physical-layer fingerprinting of LoRa devices using supervised and zero-shot learning

P Robyns, E Marin, W Lamotte, P Quax… - Proceedings of the 10th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Physical-layer fingerprinting investigates how features extracted from radio signals can be
used to uniquely identify devices. This paper proposes and analyses a novel methodology …

Toward intelligent lightweight and efficient UAV identification with RF fingerprinting

Z Cai, Y Wang, Q Jiang, G Gui… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The inherent flexibility of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enables their deployment
across various emerging markets. Unauthenticated UAVs pose a significant threat if they …

Specific emitter identification based on Hilbert–Huang transform‐based time–frequency–energy distribution features

Y Yuan, Z Huang, H Wu, X Wang - IET communications, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
A novel specific emitter identification method based on transient communication signal's
time–frequency–energy distribution obtained by Hilbert–Huang transform (HHT) is …

RF fingerprinting of IoT devices based on transient energy spectrum

M Köse, S Taşcioğlu, Z Telatar - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting is considered as one of the promising techniques to
enhance wireless security in the Internet of Things (IoT) applications. In this paper, a low …

Deep learning-based RF fingerprint identification with channel effects mitigation

H Fu, L Peng, M Liu, A Hu - IEEE Open Journal of the …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The radio frequency fingerprint (RFF)-based device identification is a promising physical
layer authentication technique. However, the wireless channel significantly affects the RFF …