Device fingerprinting in wireless networks: Challenges and opportunities

Q Xu, R Zheng, W Saad, Z Han - … Communications Surveys & …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Node forgery or impersonation, in which legitimate cryptographic credentials are captured
by an adversary, constitutes one major security threat facing wireless networks. The fact that …

Attacks on physical-layer identification

B Danev, H Luecken, S Capkun… - Proceedings of the third …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Physical-layer identification of wireless devices, commonly referred to as Radio Frequency
(RF) fingerprinting, is the process of identifying a device based on transmission …

Accurate and efficient wireless device fingerprinting using channel state information

J Hua, H Sun, Z Shen, Z Qian… - IEEE INFOCOM 2018 …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the loose authentication requirement between access points (APs) and clients, it is
notoriously known that WLANs face long-standing threats such as rogue APs and network …

GTID: A Technique for Physical Device and Device Type Fingerprinting

SV Radhakrishnan, AS Uluagac… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we introduce GTID, a technique that can actively and passively fingerprint
wireless devices and their types using wire-side observations in a local network. GTID …

A survey of techniques for the identification of mobile phones using the physical fingerprints of the built-in components

G Baldini, G Steri - IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, several research studies have investigated the identification of electronic
devices through their physical components and properties, both from a theoretical point of …

Fingerprinting Wi-Fi devices using software defined radios

TD Vo-Huu, TD Vo-Huu, G Noubir - … of the 9th ACM Conference on …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11), is emerging as the primary medium for wireless Internet access.
Cellular carriers are increasingly offloading their traffic to Wi-Fi Access Points to overcome …

Robust wireless fingerprinting via complex-valued neural networks

S Gopalakrishnan, M Cekic… - 2019 IEEE Global …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A" wireless fingerprint" which exploits hardware imperfections unique to each device is a
potentially powerful tool for wireless security. Such a fingerprint should be able to distinguish …

Identifying unique devices through wireless fingerprinting

LCC Desmond, CC Yuan, TC Pheng… - Proceedings of the first …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
We propose a new fingerprinting technique that differentiates between unique devices over
a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) simply through the timing analysis of 802.11 probe …

A passive approach to wireless device fingerprinting

K Gao, C Corbett, R Beyah - 2010 IEEE/IFIP International …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a passive blackbox-based technique for determining the type of access point
(AP) connected to a network. Essentially, a stimulant (ie, packet train) that emulates normal …

A comprehensive and reproducible comparison of clustering and optimization rules in wi-fi fingerprinting

J Torres-Sospedra, P Richter, A Moreira… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wi-Fi fingerprinting is a well-known technique used for indoor positioning. It relies on a
pattern recognition method that compares the captured operational fingerprint with a set of …