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  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,667 Views
25 Pages

22 August 2025

As IoT (internet of things) devices grow in prominence, safeguarding them from cyberattacks is becoming a pressing challenge. To bootstrap IoT security, device identification or authentication is crucial for establishing trusted connections among dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,294 Views
36 Pages

A Survey of Spoofer Detection Techniques via Radio Frequency Fingerprinting with Focus on the GNSS Pre-Correlation Sampled Data

  • Wenbo Wang,
  • Ignacio Aguilar Sanchez,
  • Gianluca Caparra,
  • Andy McKeown,
  • Tim Whitworth and
  • Elena Simona Lohan

25 April 2021

Radio frequency fingerprinting (RFF) methods are becoming more and more popular in the context of identifying genuine transmitters and distinguishing them from malicious or non-authorized transmitters, such as spoofers and jammers. RFF approaches hav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,575 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,419 Views
23 Pages

19 October 2023

To improve communication stability, more wireless devices transmit multi-modal signals while operating. The term ‘modal’ refers to signal waveforms or signal types. This poses challenges to traditional specific emitter identification (SEI...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,269 Views
22 Pages

4 April 2025

Specific emitter identification (SEI) methods based on deep learning (DL) have effectively addressed complex, multi-dimensional signal recognition tasks by leveraging deep neural networks. However, this advancement introduces challenges such as model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,741 Views
17 Pages

6 December 2023

Smart grids incorporate diverse power equipment used for energy optimization in intelligent cities. This equipment may use Internet of Things (IoT) devices and services in the future. To ensure stable operation of smart grids, cybersecurity of IoT is...

  • Data Descriptor
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,989 Views
13 Pages

17 February 2020

This is a data descriptor paper for a set of raw GNSS signals collected via roof antennas and Spectracom simulator for general-purpose uses. We give one example of possible data use in the context of Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (RFF) studies for s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,953 Views
18 Pages

10 October 2024

The open nature of the wireless channel makes the drone communication vulnerable to adverse spoofing attacks, and the radio frequency fingerprint (RFF) identification is promising in effectively safeguarding the access security for drones. Since dron...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,367 Views
17 Pages

A Low-Latency Approach for RFF Identification in Open-Set Scenarios

  • Bo Zhang,
  • Tao Zhang,
  • Yuanyuan Ma,
  • Zesheng Xi,
  • Chuan He,
  • Yunfan Wang and
  • Zhuo Lv

Radio frequency fingerprint (RFF) identification represents a promising technique for lightweight device authentication. However, current research on RFF primarily focuses on the close-set recognition assumption. Moreover, the high computational comp...

  • Data Descriptor
  • Open Access
62 Citations
10,457 Views
11 Pages

21 June 2020

Radio frequency fingerprinting (RFF) is a promising physical layer protection technique which can be used to defend wireless networks from malicious attacks. It is based on the use of the distinctive features of the physical waveforms (signals) trans...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,624 Views
17 Pages

Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (RFF) refers to the technique for identifying and classifying wireless devices on the basis of their physical characteristics, which appear in the digital signal transmitted in space. Small differences in the radio freq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,407 Views
18 Pages

An Identity Authentication Method of a MIoT Device Based on Radio Frequency (RF) Fingerprint Technology

  • Qiao Tian,
  • Yun Lin,
  • Xinghao Guo,
  • Jin Wang,
  • Osama AlFarraj and
  • Amr Tolba

22 February 2020

With the continuous development of science and engineering technology, our society has entered the era of the mobile Internet of Things (MIoT). MIoT refers to the combination of advanced manufacturing technologies with the Internet of Things (IoT) to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,963 Views
19 Pages

22 April 2022

In recent years, Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC) vehicle interconnection technology has achieved mature development and broad applications, which is the key Vehicle to Everything (V2X) technology to realize transport intelligence. However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
807 Views
19 Pages

30 September 2025

As a typical representative of complex networks, the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is more vulnerable to malicious attacks due to the mobility and complex environment of devices, which requires a secure and efficient authentication mechanism. Radio freq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,014 Views
17 Pages

17 November 2022

Hardware Trojans (HTs) pose a security threat to the Internet of Things (IoT). Attackers can take control of devices in IoT through HTs, which seriously jeopardize the security of many systems in transportation, finance, healthcare, etc. Since subtle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,148 Views
15 Pages

The automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS-B) system is one of the key components of the next generation air transportation system (NextGen). ADS-B messages are transmitted in unencrypted plain text. This, however, causes significant securit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,088 Views
10 Pages

19 March 2020

Radio frequency fingerprinting (RFF) is one of the communication network’s security techniques based on the identification of the unique features of RF transient signals. However, extracting these features could be burdensome, due to the nonsta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,597 Views
22 Pages

FeRHA: Fuzzy-Extractor-Based RF and Hardware Fingerprinting Two-Factor Authentication

  • Mona Alkanhal,
  • Mohamed Younis,
  • Abdulaziz Alali and
  • Suhee Sanjana Mehjabin

16 April 2024

The Internet of Things (IoT) reflects the internetworking of numerous devices with limited computational capabilities. Given the ad-hoc network formation and the dynamic nature of node membership, secure device authentication mechanisms are critical....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,209 Views
23 Pages

A Self-Supervised Contrastive Framework for Specific Emitter Identification with Limited Labeled Data

  • Jiaqi Wang,
  • Lishu Guo,
  • Pengfei Liu,
  • Peng Shang,
  • Xiaochun Lu and
  • Hang Zhao

1 August 2025

Specific Emitter Identification (SEI) is a specialized technique for identifying different emitters by analyzing the unique characteristics embedded in received signals, known as Radio Frequency Fingerprints (RFFs), and SEI plays a crucial role in ci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,855 Views
19 Pages

29 December 2023

The fifth-generation (5G) mobile cellular network is vulnerable to various security threats. Radio frequency fingerprint (RFF) identification is an emerging physical layer authentication technique which can be used to detect spoofing and distributed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,634 Views
16 Pages

20 November 2022

Radar data mining is the key module for signal analysis, where patterns hidden inside of signals are gradually available in the learning process and its superiority is significant for enhancing the security of the radar emitter classification (REC) s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
810 Views
20 Pages

An Adaptive Deep Ensemble Learning for Specific Emitter Identification

  • Peng Shang,
  • Lishu Guo,
  • Decai Zou,
  • Xue Wang,
  • Pengfei Liu and
  • Shuaihe Gao

9 October 2025

Specific emitter identification (SEI), which classifies radio transmitters by extracting hardware-intrinsic radio frequency fingerprints (RFFs), faces critical challenges in noise robustness, generalization under limited training data and class imbal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,112 Views
24 Pages

27 June 2025

Specific emitter identification (SEI) is a core technology for wireless device security that plays a crucial role in protecting wireless communication systems from various security threats. However, current deep learning-based SEI methods heavily rel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,909 Views
21 Pages

Considerations for Radio Frequency Fingerprinting across Multiple Frequency Channels

  • Jose A. Gutierrez del Arroyo,
  • Brett J. Borghetti and
  • Michael A. Temple

9 March 2022

Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (RFF) is often proposed as an authentication mechanism for wireless device security, but application of existing techniques in multi-channel scenarios is limited because prior models were created and evaluated using bur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,982 Views
17 Pages

Composite Ensemble Learning Framework for Passive Drone Radio Frequency Fingerprinting in Sixth-Generation Networks

  • Muhammad Usama Zahid,
  • Muhammad Danish Nisar,
  • Adnan Fazil,
  • Jihyoung Ryu and
  • Maqsood Hussain Shah

29 August 2024

The rapid evolution of drone technology has introduced unprecedented challenges in security, particularly concerning the threat of unconventional drone and swarm attacks. In order to deal with threats, drones need to be classified by intercepting the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
973 Views
20 Pages

A Satellite Individual Identification Method Based on a Complex-Valued Conditional Generative Adversarial Network

  • Jun He,
  • Can Xu,
  • Canbin Yin,
  • Pengju Li,
  • Jishun Li,
  • Shuailong Zhao and
  • Yasheng Zhang

20 February 2025

With the help of specific emitter identification (SEI), the control efficiency of the satellite communication systems can be effectively improved by discriminating the individual satellite. In recent years, deep learning has been introduced into SEI...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,466 Views
31 Pages

1 April 2025

Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification (RFFI) is a promising device authentication technique that utilizes inherent hardware flaws in transmitters to achieve device identification, thus effectively maintaining the security of the Internet of Thin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,364 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...