Radio frequency fingerprinting(RFF)is a technology that identifies the specific emitter of a received electromagnetic signal by external measurement of the minuscule hardware-level,device-specific imperfections.The RF...Radio frequency fingerprinting(RFF)is a technology that identifies the specific emitter of a received electromagnetic signal by external measurement of the minuscule hardware-level,device-specific imperfections.The RFF-related information is mainly in the form of unintentional modulation(UIM),which is subtle enough to be effectively imperceptible and is submerged in the intentional modulation(IM).It is necessary to minimize the influence of the IM and expand the slight differences between emitters for successful RFF.This paper proposes a UIM microstructure enlargement(UMME)method based on feature-level adaptive signal decomposition(ASD),accompanied by autocorrelation and cross-correlation analysis.The common IM part is evaluated by analyzing a newly-defined benchmark feature.Three different indexes are used to quantify the similarity,distance,and dependency of the RFF features from different devices.Experiments are conducted based on the real-world signals transmitted from 20 of the same type of radar in the same working mode.The visual image qualitatively shows the magnification of feature differences;different indicators quantitatively describe the changes in features.Compared with the original RFF feature,recognition results based on the Gaussian mixture model(GMM)classifier further validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.展开更多
Extensive experiments suggest that kurtosis-based fingerprint features are effective for specific emitter identification (SEI). Nevertheless, the lack of mechanistic explanation restricts the use of fingerprint featur...Extensive experiments suggest that kurtosis-based fingerprint features are effective for specific emitter identification (SEI). Nevertheless, the lack of mechanistic explanation restricts the use of fingerprint features to a data-driven technique and fur-ther reduces the adaptability of the technique to other datasets. To address this issue, the mechanism how the phase noise of high-frequency oscillators and the nonlinearity of power ampli-fiers affect the kurtosis of communication signals is investigated. Mathematical models are derived for intentional modulation (IM) and unintentional modulation (UIM). Analysis indicates that the phase noise of high-frequency oscillators and the nonlinearity of power amplifiers affect the kurtosis frequency and amplitude, respectively. A novel SEI method based on frequency and ampli-tude of the signal kurtosis (FA-SK) is further proposed. Simula-tion and real-world experiments validate theoretical analysis and also confirm the efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed method.展开更多
基金This work was supported by the Program for Innovative Research Groups of the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(2019JJ10004).
文摘Radio frequency fingerprinting(RFF)is a technology that identifies the specific emitter of a received electromagnetic signal by external measurement of the minuscule hardware-level,device-specific imperfections.The RFF-related information is mainly in the form of unintentional modulation(UIM),which is subtle enough to be effectively imperceptible and is submerged in the intentional modulation(IM).It is necessary to minimize the influence of the IM and expand the slight differences between emitters for successful RFF.This paper proposes a UIM microstructure enlargement(UMME)method based on feature-level adaptive signal decomposition(ASD),accompanied by autocorrelation and cross-correlation analysis.The common IM part is evaluated by analyzing a newly-defined benchmark feature.Three different indexes are used to quantify the similarity,distance,and dependency of the RFF features from different devices.Experiments are conducted based on the real-world signals transmitted from 20 of the same type of radar in the same working mode.The visual image qualitatively shows the magnification of feature differences;different indicators quantitatively describe the changes in features.Compared with the original RFF feature,recognition results based on the Gaussian mixture model(GMM)classifier further validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.
基金supported by the Youth Science and Technology Innovation Award of National University of Defense Technology (18/19-QNCXJ)the National Science Foundation of China (62271494)
文摘Extensive experiments suggest that kurtosis-based fingerprint features are effective for specific emitter identification (SEI). Nevertheless, the lack of mechanistic explanation restricts the use of fingerprint features to a data-driven technique and fur-ther reduces the adaptability of the technique to other datasets. To address this issue, the mechanism how the phase noise of high-frequency oscillators and the nonlinearity of power ampli-fiers affect the kurtosis of communication signals is investigated. Mathematical models are derived for intentional modulation (IM) and unintentional modulation (UIM). Analysis indicates that the phase noise of high-frequency oscillators and the nonlinearity of power amplifiers affect the kurtosis frequency and amplitude, respectively. A novel SEI method based on frequency and ampli-tude of the signal kurtosis (FA-SK) is further proposed. Simula-tion and real-world experiments validate theoretical analysis and also confirm the efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed method.
