On the Domain Generalizability of RF Fingerprints Through Multifractal Dimension Representation (2402.10044v1)
Abstract: RF data-driven device fingerprinting through the use of deep learning has recently surfaced as a possible method for enabling secure device identification and authentication. Traditional approaches are commonly susceptible to the domain adaptation problem where a model trained on data collected under one domain performs badly when tested on data collected under a different domain. Some examples of a domain change include varying the location or environment of the device and varying the time or day of the data collection. In this work, we propose using multifractal analysis and the variance fractal dimension trajectory (VFDT) as a data representation input to the deep neural network to extract device fingerprints that are domain generalizable. We analyze the effectiveness of the proposed VFDT representation in detecting device-specific signatures from hardware-impaired IQ (in-phase and quadrature) signals, and we evaluate its robustness in real-world settings, using an experimental testbed of 30 WiFi-enabled Pycom devices. Our experimental results show that the proposed VFDT representation improves the scalability, robustness and generalizability of the deep learning models significantly compared to when using IQ data samples.
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