Consistency-Guided Robust Learning for Content-Agnostic Radio Frequency Fingerprinting

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作者
Wang, Yu [1 ]
Gui, Guan [1 ]
机构
[1] Nanjing Univ Posts & Telecommun, Coll Telecommun & Informat Engn, Nanjing 210003, Peoples R China
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
Fingerprint recognition; Radio transmitters; Training; Semantics; Robustness; Feature extraction; Data mining; Accuracy; Wireless communication; Kernel; Radio frequency fingerprinting (RFF); content dependency; consistency regularization; class activation mapping;
D O I
10.1109/LCOMM.2025.3535879
中图分类号
TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0809 ;
摘要
Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (RFF) is viewed as a potential strategy to enhance wireless security by utilizing inherent hardware characteristics of transmitters. Recently, Deep Learning (DL)-based RFF methods have been extensively studied and significantly improved identification performance. However, new challenges are introduced, particularly content dependency. This dependency emerges when signals contain unique transmitter identifiers (IDs), such as the ICAO addresses in Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system. In such cases, DL models may prioritize these IDs over the intrinsic hardware fingerprint information, resulting in inflated accuracy. Moreover, as these IDs are vulnerable to tampering, their reliability and robustness are substantially compromised. To overcome this, we propose a novel content-agnostic RFF method that incorporates a consistency-guided robust learning framework. The proposed method employs a masking mechanism to zero out signal segments associated with transmitter IDs and processes both original and masked signals through a shared feature embedding, ensuring minimal content dependency while thoroughly extracting fingerprint information across the entire signal. To enhance its effectiveness, we introduce semantic consistency regularization to align the feature semantics of original and masked signals. Additionally, attention consistency regularization, leveraging class activation mapping, is employed to constrain the attention distribution across the two signal variants. These complementary strategies effectively mitigate the risk of over-reliance on transmitter IDs, ensuring comprehensive extraction of fingerprint information. Simulation results demonstrate robust identification despite transmitter ID tampering, and highlight its content independence. The codes can be downloaded at https://github.com/BeechburgPieStar/ CGRL-for-Content-Agnostic-RFF.
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