Radio Transmitter Fingerprinting: A Steady State Frequency Domain Approach

Kennedy, Irwin O.; Scanlon, Patricia; Mullany, F.J.; Buddhikot, Milind M.; Nolan, Keith; Rondeau, Thomas W.

doi:10.1109/vetecf.2008.291

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“…In previous works, the RF fingerprint of transmitters is generated by extracting the frequency domain features from the steady-state signal [9,13,21,22]. In this paper, the RF fingerprint consists of PSD coefficients and is given as:…”

Section: A Data Collection and Rf Fingerprintmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effect of channel impairments on radiometric fingerprinting

Rehman

Sowerby

Alam

et al. 2015

2015 IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT)

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Abstract-To increase network security and mitigate identity theft attacks, much of the research is focused on traditional bit-level algorithmic. In conventional wireless networks, security issues are primarily considered above the physical layer and are usually based on bit-level algorithms to establish the identity of a legitimate wireless device. Physical layer security is a new paradigm in which features extracted from an analog signal can be used to establish the unique identity of a transmitter. Our previous research work into Radiometric fingerprinting has shown that every transmitter has a unique fingerprint owing to imperfections in the analog components present in the RF front end. However, to the best of the author's knowledge, no such example is available in the literature in which the effect of radio channel on Radiometric fingerprint is evaluated. This paper presents the simulation and experimental results for radiometric fingerprinting under an indoor varying radio channel. Contrary to popular assumption, it was found that the fingerprinting accuracy is little affected in an indoor channel environment.

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Section: A Data Collection and Rf Fingerprintmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effect of channel impairments on radiometric fingerprinting

Rehman

Sowerby

Alam

et al. 2015

2015 IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT)

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“…The errors introduced by the modulator of the transmitter are utilized in steady state-based (modulation based) RF fingerprinting. Many researchers have explored ways to form unique RF fingerprint from these errors [9,12,23,24,[33][34][35][36][37][38]. Mainly, the offset in Inphase/Quadrature (I/Q) components, frequency error, phase and magnitude errors of the frames, Power Spectral Density coefficients of preambles or variant of these features are used in the modulation-based fingerprinting.…”

Section: Rf Fingerprinting Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, higher sampling rate is required for the transient detection and extraction due to its relatively short period compared to a steady state signal [35]. Therefore, real time implementation of transient-based fingerprinting presents serious technical challenges.…”

Section: Rf Fingerprinting Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A modulation based RF fingerprinting scheme is easy to implement on low-end RF hardware as compared to transient based RF fingerprinting, which requires higher sampling rate due to its relatively short period. In previous works, the RF fingerprint of transmitters is generated by extracting the frequency domain features from the steady-state signal [11,12,34,35]. In this paper, the frequency domain RF fingerprinting technique proposed by the Suski et al is used for impersonation attack evaluation.…”

Section: Rf Fingerprinting Schemementioning

confidence: 99%

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Analysis of impersonation attacks on systems using RF fingerprinting and low-end receivers

Rehman

Sowerby

Coghill

2014

Journal of Computer and System Sciences

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“…The methods that extract RF fingerprint features from steady-state signal are also called as modulation-based approaches [16][17]. In contrast with the case of transient analyses, the modulation-based approaches just require low-end receiver.…”

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confidence: 99%