Radio Frequency Fingerprinting and its Challenges
Date
2014Citation:
Rehman, S. U., Sowerby, K., Alam, S., and Ardekani, I. T. (2014). Radio Frequency Fingerprinting and its Challenges. IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS). San Francisco, USA(Ed.), (pp.1-2).Permanent link to Research Bank record:
https://hdl.handle.net/10652/2974Abstract
RF fingerprinting aims to develop a unique RF fingerprint for a wireless device that can be used as an identity, in the same way a biological fingerprint operates, to improve the security and privacy of wireless communication. This is in contrast to the traditional bit- level algorithmic approaches to securing transmissions. In this work, we present a comprehensive overview of challenges in the deployment of RF fingerprinting in low-cost portable mobile devices including: the preliminary results showing the effect of channel impairments on RF fingerprinting accuracy and open research challenges associated with the deployment of RF fingerprinting.