Towards a Lightweight Edge AI-based Radio Frequency Fingerprinting
2025 (English) In: 2025 INTERNATIONAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND MOBILE COMPUTING, IWCMC, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2025, p. 1540-1545Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
The deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) devices requires efficient security mechanisms. However, cryptographic solutions often prove resource-intensive. Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (RFF) enables device authentication through the intrinsic characteristics of RF signals at the Physical (PHY)-layer. Deploying RFF presents two challenges: ensuring operational efficiency and scalability in resource -constrained environments. This paper presents a lightweight Edge AI -based RFF model for device authentication using PHY-layer characteristics. Our approach implements a Deep Learning (DL) model to extract device-specific features from IQ samples, converted using TensorFlow Lite for edge deployment. Evaluation on Raspberry Pi demonstrates high accuracy (> 0.95) and Receiver Operating Characteristic-Area Under the Curve (ROC-AUC) scores (> 0.90), while maintaining a compact model size suitable for resource-constrained environments.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2025. p. 1540-1545
Series
International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, ISSN 2376-6492
Keywords [en]
Artificial Intelligence, Authentication, Convolutional Neural Networks, Edge AI, Internet of Things, Physical Layer Security, Radio Frequency Fingerprinting, Smart Cities, TensorFlow, TinyML, Wireless Security
National Category
Computer Sciences
Identifiers URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-374813 DOI: 10.1109/IWCMC65282.2025.11059726 ISI: 001547037100255 Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105011346661 ISBN: 979-8-3315-0888-3 (print) ISBN: 979-8-3315-0887-6 (print) OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-374813 DiVA, id: diva2:2027481
Conference 21st International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing-IWCMC-Annual, MAY 12-16, 2025, Abu Dhabi, U ARAB EMIRATES
Note QC 20260113
2026-01-132026-01-132026-01-13 Bibliographically approved