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  • Open Access
24 Citations
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IoT Device Identification Using Unsupervised Machine Learning

  • Carson Koball,
  • Bhaskar P. Rimal,
  • Yong Wang,
  • Tyler Salmen and
  • Connor Ford

Device identification is a fundamental issue in the Internet of Things (IoT). Many critical services, including access control and intrusion prevention, are built on correctly identifying each unique device in a network. However, device identificatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pervasive Computing in IoT)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,421 Views
15 Pages

IoT Device Identification Method Based on Causal Inference

  • Xingkui Wang,
  • Yunhao Wu,
  • Dan Yu,
  • Yuli Yang and ,
  • Yao Ma and
  • Yongle Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

With the development of 5G, the number of IoT (Internet of Things) devices connected to the Internet will grow explosively. However, due to the vulnerability of the devices, attackers can launch attacks on the vulnerable IoT devices, causing great im...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Communication and Networking Techniques for Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT))
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,571 Views
17 Pages

Probe Request Based Device Identification Attack and Defense

  • Xiaolin Gu,
  • Wenjia Wu,
  • Xiaodan Gu,
  • Zhen Ling and ,
  • Ming Yang and
  • Aibo Song
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 August 2020

Wi-Fi network has an open nature so that it needs to face greater security risks compared to wired network. The MAC address represents the unique identifier of the device, and is easily obtained by an attacker. Therefore MAC address randomization is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Internet of Things, Big Data and Smart Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
7,971 Views
16 Pages

23 March 2019

With the continuous improvement of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, various IoT platforms are under development. However, each IoT platform is developed based on its own device identification system. That is, it is challenging to identify each...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue I3S 2018 Selected Papers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,759 Views
15 Pages

Bluetooth Device Identification Using RF Fingerprinting and Jensen-Shannon Divergence

  • Rene Francisco Santana-Cruz,
  • Martin Moreno-Guzman,
  • César Enrique Rojas-López,
  • Ricardo Vázquez-Morán and
  • Rubén Vázquez-Medina

24 February 2024

The proliferation of radio frequency (RF) devices in contemporary society, especially in the fields of smart homes, Internet of Things (IoT) gadgets, and smartphones, underscores the urgent need for robust identification methods to strengthen cyberse...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security, Cybercrime, and Digital Forensics for the IoT)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,099 Views
17 Pages

WYSIWYG: IoT Device Identification Based on WebUI Login Pages

  • Ruimin Wang,
  • Haitao Li,
  • Jing Jing,
  • Liehui Jiang and
  • Weiyu Dong

29 June 2022

With the improvement of intelligence and interconnection, Internet of Things (IoT) devices tend to become more vulnerable and exposed to many threats. Device identification is the foundation of many cybersecurity operations, such as asset management,...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,876 Views
26 Pages

4 January 2023

With the rapid development of industrial automation technology, a large number of industrial control devices have emerged in cyberspace, but the security of open cyberspace is difficult to guarantee. Attacks on industrial control devices can directly...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Network Traffic Security Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,846 Views
17 Pages

27 March 2020

Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected to the Internet are exploding, which poses a significant threat for their management and security protection. IoT device identification is a prerequisite for discovering, monitoring, and protecting these dev...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,405 Views
18 Pages

Dual-IoTID: A Session-Based Dual IoT Device Identification Model

  • Tao Zeng,
  • Ke Ye,
  • Fang Lou,
  • Yue Chang and ,
  • Mingyong Yin and
  • Teng Hu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 May 2024

The Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly transforming our lives and work, enabling a wide range of emerging services and applications. However, as the scale of the IoT expands, its security issues are becoming increasingly prominent. Malicious actors...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Adversarial Attacks and Cyber Security: Trends and Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,953 Views
14 Pages

6 September 2024

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology, the number and types of devices accessing the Internet are increasing, leading to increased network security problems such as hacker attacks and botnets. Usually, these attacks ar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Signal Acquisition and Processing for Measurement and Testing)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
192 Views
15 Pages

Testing Bluetooth Signals for Device Identification Using Neural Network

  • Martin Pap,
  • Bálint Dugár,
  • Balázs Lukács and
  • Lilik Ferenc

13 October 2026

In an era where IT security has paramount importance, the identification of devices holds a significance comparable to that of individuals. With the pervasive adoption of wireless technology, understanding the informational content within wireless da...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The Sustainable Mobility and Transportation Symposium 2026)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,086 Views
25 Pages

Signal Preprocessing for Enhanced IoT Device Identification Using Support Vector Machine

  • Rene Francisco Santana-Cruz,
  • Martin Moreno,
  • Daniel Aguilar-Torres,
  • Román Arturo Valverde-Domínguez and
  • Rubén Vázquez-Medina

Device identification based on radio frequency fingerprinting is widely used to improve the security of Internet of Things systems. However, noise and acquisition inconsistencies in raw radio frequency signals can affect the effectiveness of classifi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Task Offloading and Resource Allocation for IoT in Next-Generation Networking)
  • Article
  • Open Access
618 Views
20 Pages

Generalized Zero-Shot Learning for Evolving Network Device Identification

  • Zhihua Wang,
  • Minghui Jin,
  • Zhenyu Tang,
  • Duo Chen and ,
  • Xingshen Wei and
  • Lizhao You
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The rapid expansion of the Ubiquitous Electric Internet of Things (UEIoT) has introduced a vast array of heterogeneous devices into smart grids, rendering traditional identification methods inadequate. The continuous emergence of new terminal models...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Network Traffic Analysis for Enhanced Cybersecurity)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,970 Views
20 Pages

30 October 2022

With the large-scale application of the Internet of Things (IoT), security issues have become increasingly prominent. Device identification is an effective way to secure IoT environment by quickly identifying the category or model of devices in the n...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security in IoT Environments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
85 Views
25 Pages

Cross-Layer BLE Device-Type Identification via Locality-Sensitive Hashing for IoT Security

  • Chaimae Saadouni,
  • Saad El Jaouhari,
  • Nouredine Tamani,
  • Lina Mroueh and
  • Soumia Ziti

6 November 2026

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices are ubiquitous across consumer, industrial, and healthcare IoT ecosystems, yet their resource-constrained nature typically precludes conventional cryptographic authentication, leaving device identification as a secu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cybersecurity for Internet of Things Devices in Sensors)
  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,958 Views
23 Pages

6 December 2025

Photo-response non-uniformity (PRNU) has long been regarded as a reliable method for source camera identification and device linking in forensic applications. Recent advances in deep learning (DL) have introduced diverse architectures, including conv...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,976 Views
12 Pages

3 September 2021

Wireless sensing can be used for human identification by mining and quantifying individual behavior effects on wireless signal propagation. This work proposes a novel device-free biometric (DFB) system, WirelessID, that explores the joint human fine-...

(This article belongs to the Collection Signal Processing, Control, and Estimation for Intelligent Sensor Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
11,143 Views
17 Pages

10 April 2021

In an Internet of Things (IoT) environment, a large volume of potentially confidential data might be leaked from sensors installed everywhere. To ensure the authenticity of such sensitive data, it is important to initially verify the source of data a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the Global IoT Summit GIoTS 2020)
  • Review
  • Open Access
49 Citations
8,738 Views
59 Pages

3 December 2019

The requirement of active localization techniques to attach a hardware device to the targets that need to be located can be difficult or even impossible for certain applications. For this reason, there has been an increasing interest in tagless or de...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Surveys of Sensor Networks and Sensor Systems Deployments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,828 Views
23 Pages

The increasing dependence on Wi-Fi for device-to-device communication in industrial environments has introduced significant security and privacy challenges. In such wireless networks, rogue access point (RAP) attacks have become more common, exploiti...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,292 Views
22 Pages

Device-Free Localization and Identification Using Sub-GHz Passive Radio Mapping

  • Stijn Denis,
  • Abdil Kaya,
  • Rafael Berkvens and
  • Maarten Weyn

5 September 2020

The research domain of device-free localization (DFL) is centered on the study of localization techniques which do not require targets to wear any kind of device. Passive radio mapping or passive fingerprinting is an example of a training-based DFL t...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
2,535 Views
22 Pages

19 July 2023

Source recording device identification poses a significant challenge in the field of Audio Sustainable Security (ASS). Most existing studies on end-to-end identification of digital audio sources follow a two-step process: extracting device-specific f...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,734 Views
24 Pages

31 December 2023

Smart home environments, which consist of various Internet of Things (IoT) devices to support and improve our daily lives, are expected to be widely adopted in the near future. Owing to a lack of awareness regarding the risks associated with IoT devi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Distributing Computing in the Internet of Things (IoT): Cloud, Fog and Edge Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,294 Views
34 Pages

9 May 2025

Current methods for identifying unknown Internet of Things (IoT) devices are relatively limited. Most approaches can identify only one type of the unknown IoT devices at a time and with a relatively low accuracy. Herein, we propose a method for unkno...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,486 Views
8 Pages

21 February 2022

Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a leading cause of permanent disability worldwide that has been listed as a neglected tropical disease by the World Health Organization. Significant progress made by the Global Program to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (G...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Micro and Smart Devices and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,720 Views
17 Pages

Permittivity-Inspired Microwave Resonator-Based Biosensor Based on Integrated Passive Device Technology for Glucose Identification

  • Wei Yue,
  • Eun-Seong Kim,
  • Bao-Hua Zhu,
  • Jian Chen and ,
  • Jun-Ge Liang and
  • Nam-Young Kim
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 December 2021

In this study, we propose a high-performance resonator-based biosensor for mediator-free glucose identification. The biosensor is characterized by an air-bridge capacitor and fabricated via integrated passive device technology on gallium arsenide (Ga...

(This article belongs to the Section Biosensor and Bioelectronic Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,463 Views
21 Pages

4 July 2024

Unauthenticated device access to a network presents substantial security risks. To address the challenges of access and identification for a vast number of devices with diverse functions in the era of the Internet of things (IoT), we propose an IoT d...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
298 Views
21 Pages

Identification of Distribution-Network Edge-End Devices Based on Current Time–Frequency Features and Random Forest

  • Hui Fan,
  • Jie Zhao,
  • Zhao Zhao,
  • Zejun Ou and ,
  • Huanyu Liu,
  • Jianzhen Han,
  • Jie Chen and
  • Guang Tian
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

18 August 2026

With the increasing integration of distributed photovoltaics, energy storage systems, electric vehicle chargers, and intelligent terminals, accurate identification of heterogeneous edge-end devices in distribution networks has become challenging due...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Decentralized Control Strategies for Multi-Microgrid Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,066 Views
16 Pages

20 August 2022

A large number of IoT devices access the Internet. While enriching our lives, IoT devices bring potential security risks. Device identification is one effective way to mitigate security risks and manage IoT assets. Typical identification algorithms g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
559 Views
32 Pages

3 June 2026

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the increase in the frequency of cyberattacks, accurate identification of IoT end devices is critical to their security. Existing identification methods are based on raw, statistical, and...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,541 Views
35 Pages

This work solves the problem of identification of the machine code architecture in cyberphysical devices. A basic systematization of the Executable and Linkable Format and Portable Executable formats of programs, as well as the analysis mechanisms us...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks: 10th Year Anniversary)
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
7,158 Views
17 Pages

2 November 2017

Device-free passive identity identification attracts much attention in recent years, and it is a representative application in sensorless sensing. It can be used in many applications such as intrusion detection and smart building. Previous studies sh...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
166 Citations
9,387 Views
19 Pages

RETRACTED: FL-PMI: Federated Learning-Based Person Movement Identification through Wearable Devices in Smart Healthcare Systems

  • K. S. Arikumar,
  • Sahaya Beni Prathiba,
  • Mamoun Alazab,
  • Thippa Reddy Gadekallu and ,
  • Sharnil Pandya,
  • Javed Masood Khan and
  • Rajalakshmi Shenbaga Moorthy
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

11 February 2022

Recent technological developments, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, edge, and cloud computing, have paved the way in transforming traditional healthcare systems into smart healthcare (SHC) systems. SHC escalates healthca...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Healthcare Systems Based on the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,916 Views
15 Pages

Internet of Things (IoT) technology is widely used in new power systems, and it also provides many new modes for network attacks. Illegal terminal device identification is also a significant topic in the field of wireless authentication technology. S...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Precise Timing and Security in Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,699 Views
22 Pages

Pattern Recognition Techniques for the Identification of Activities of Daily Living Using a Mobile Device Accelerometer

  • Ivan Miguel Pires,
  • Gonçalo Marques,
  • Nuno M. Garcia,
  • Francisco Flórez-Revuelta and ,
  • Maria Canavarro Teixeira,
  • Eftim Zdravevski,
  • Susanna Spinsante and
  • Miguel Coimbra
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

The application of pattern recognition techniques to data collected from accelerometers available in off-the-shelf devices, such as smartphones, allows for the automatic recognition of activities of daily living (ADLs). This data can be used later to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning Techniques for Assistive Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,296 Views
22 Pages

24 August 2023

With the increasing prevalence of digital multimedia content, the need for reliable and accurate source camera identification has become crucial in applications such as digital forensics. While effective techniques exist for identifying the source ca...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,394 Views
19 Pages

Research on an Identification and Grasping Device for Dead Yellow-Feather Broilers in Flat Houses Based on Deep Learning

  • Chengrui Xin,
  • Hengtai Li,
  • Yuhua Li,
  • Meihui Wang and ,
  • Weihan Lin,
  • Shuchen Wang,
  • Wentian Zhang,
  • Maohua Xiao and
  • Xiuguo Zou
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

14 September 2024

The existence of dead broilers in flat broiler houses poses significant challenges to large-scale and welfare-oriented broiler breeding. To ensure the timely identification and removal of dead broilers, a mobile device based on visual technology for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Vision Technology and Artificial Intelligence in Smart Farming—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,464 Views
14 Pages

30 October 2020

Practical applications of machine olfaction have been eagerly awaited. A free-hand measurement, in which a measurement device is manually exposed to sample odors, is expected to be a key technology to realize practical machine olfaction. To implement...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Olfaction and Taste)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,064 Views
15 Pages

Configurable Offline Sensor Placement Identification for a Medical Device Monitoring Parkinson’s Disease

  • Nicholas Kostikis,
  • George Rigas,
  • Spyridon Konitsiotis and
  • Dimitrios I. Fotiadis

24 November 2021

Sensor placement identification in body sensor networks is an important feature, which could render such a system more robust, transparent to the user, and easy to wear for long term data collection. It can be considered an active measure to avoid th...

(This article belongs to the Collection Medical Applications of Sensor Systems and Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,056 Views
20 Pages

FedRP: Region-Specific Personalized Identification for Large-Scale IoT Systems

  • Yuhan Jin,
  • Bin Cao,
  • Junfei Wang,
  • Benkuan Zhou and ,
  • Jiacheng Wang,
  • Yingdong Liu,
  • Fuwei Guo and
  • Bo Xu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

13 August 2025

The widespread adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) technology has significantly expanded the scale at which devices are connected, posing new challenges to maintaining symmetry in network management. Traditional centralized identification architectu...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,939 Views
24 Pages

6 April 2023

Source acquisition device identification from recorded audio aims to identify the source recording device by analyzing the intrinsic characteristics of audio, which is a challenging problem in audio forensics. In this paper, we propose a spatiotempor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information-Theoretic Approaches in Speech Processing and Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,370 Views
30 Pages

Wavelet-Based IoT Device Fingerprinting

  • Abdelfattah Amamra,
  • Viet Nguyen,
  • Adam Cheung,
  • Sarah Acosta and
  • Thuy Linh Pham

12 February 2026

Accurate fingerprinting of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is essential for network security, management, and anomaly detection. Existing machine-learning-based approaches can be broadly classified into two categories. The first are time-domain-base...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Challenges in IoT Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
9,691 Views
19 Pages

17 October 2022

Source-camera identification tools assist image forensics investigators to associate an image with a camera. The Photo Response Non-Uniformity (PRNU) noise pattern caused by sensor imperfections has been proven to be an effective way to identify the...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,684 Views
12 Pages

A Low-Cost Microfluidic-Based Detection Device for Rapid Identification and Quantification of Biomarkers-Based on a Smartphone

  • Chonghui Yang,
  • Yujing Yang,
  • Gaozhen Zhao,
  • Huan Wang and ,
  • Yang Dai and
  • Xiaowen Huang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 July 2023

The sensitive and rapid detection of microsamples is crucial for early diagnosis of diseases. The short response times and low sample volume requirements of microfluidic chips have shown great potential in early diagnosis, but there are still shortco...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Microfluidic Chips and Their Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
10,254 Views
38 Pages

A Comprehensive Survey on Deep Learning-Based LoRa Radio Frequency Fingerprinting Identification

  • Aqeel Ahmed,
  • Bruno Quoitin,
  • Alexander Gros and
  • Veronique Moeyaert

8 July 2024

LoRa enables long-range communication for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, especially those with limited resources and low power requirements. Consequently, LoRa has emerged as a popular choice for numerous IoT applications. However, the security of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Protection and Privacy in Industry 4.0 Era)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,802 Views
17 Pages

2 September 2020

Although network address translation (NAT) provides various advantages, it may cause potential threats to network operations. For network administrators to operate networks effectively and securely, it may be necessary to verify whether an assigned I...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Data Descriptor
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,400 Views
16 Pages

28 April 2024

Legitimate identification of devices is crucial to ensure the security of present and future IoT ecosystems. In this regard, AI-based systems that exploit intrinsic hardware variations have gained notable relevance. Within this context, on-chip senso...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,213 Views
18 Pages

With the development of IoT, IoT devices have proliferated. With the increasing demands of network management and security evaluation, automatic identification of IoT devices becomes necessary. However, existing works require a lot of manual effort a...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,497 Views
16 Pages

Conductor Identification Using Acoustic Signal Method

  • Alexey Bukreev,
  • Alexander Vinogradov,
  • Vadim Bolshev and
  • Vladimir Panchenko

14 June 2022

Electrotechnical services spend a significant amount of time on cable tracing and conductor identification operations. Although the operation of conductor identification seems an easy job and a deeply researched topic, it may turn out to be time-cons...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Raising Power Energy from Distributed Renewable Sources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,928 Views
26 Pages

30 August 2023

Reliability and safety are crucial for the operation of a dynamically tuned passive power filter (DTPPF). Safe performance of DTTPFs implies complete normal filtering without failure within a specified period. To prevent potential disaster or economi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Security and Cryptography)

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