Concise Paper: Towards On-board Radiometric Fingerprinting Fully Integrated on an Embedded System

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Abstract

Radiometric fingerprinting systems leverage unique physicallayer signal characteristics originating from individual hardware imperfections to identify transmitter devices. The pure passive nature of such mechanisms entirely relieves the overhead of identification and authentication operations from the end devices, which fits well with resource-constrained applications such as wireless sensor networks. However, existing systems are limited by the need for specialized hardware and non-trivial computations to extract fingerprinting features, hindering their pervasive deployment. For the first time, we ask the question whether it is feasible to implement an entire radiometric fingerprinting system on a low-cost and low-power embedded system on chip (SoC). We introduce Orf, which demonstrates the feasibility of such a system on an embedded SoC that costs less than 6 dollars. Our experiments in an anechoic chamber show that Orf achieves over 92% average accuracy in identifying one out of 32 different transmitter devices.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEWSN '24: Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks
Pages112 - 117
Volume1
Publication statusPublished - 2024
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesInternational Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks
ISSN2562-2331

Conference

Title21st International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks
Abbreviated titleEWSN 2024
Conference number21
Duration10 - 13 December 2024
Website
Degree of recognitionInternational event
LocationSt. Regis Abu Dhabi
CityAbu Dhabi
CountryUnited Arab Emirates

External IDs

ORCID /0009-0006-4489-7069/work/223387218

Keywords

Research priority areas of TU Dresden

Keywords

  • Embedded systems, Physical-layer security, Radio frequency fingerprint