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Passive and Active Wireless Device Secure Identification

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Oscar Delgado *
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Louai Kechtban
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Sébastien Lugan
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Benoı̂t Macq
DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2991649delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Secure wireless device identification is necessary if we want to ensure that any transmitted data reach only a desired receiver. However the fact that wireless communications are by nature broadcast creates unique challenges such as identity theft, eavesdropping for data interception, jamming attacks to disrupt legitimate transmissions, etc. This paper proposes a new integrated radioprint framework (IRID) that has two main components. First, we propose a machine learning-based radio identification solution that relies on hardware variabilities of internal components of the transmitter caused during manufacturing, allowing us to achieve passive device identification. Second, we introduce a new kind of covert channel, based on variations in the emitted signal strength, which allows us to implement unique active device identification. We evaluate our proposed framework on an experimental test-bed of 20 identical WiFi devices. Although our experiments deal only with IEEE 802.11b, the approach can easily be extended to any wireless protocol. The experimental results show that our proposed solution can differentiate between network devices with accuracy in excess of 99 & x0025; on the basis of a standard-compliant implementation.
Keywords:
Radioprint
machine learning
covert channel
PUF
WiFi
80211
wireless security
neural network
emerging technologies

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IEEE Access cover
IEEE Access
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3.6
Papers:
9.8W
Citations:
29.4W

Organization

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universite catholique louvain
Scholars:
2.0W
Papers: 1.7W
Citations: 21
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McGill University
Scholars:
5.5W
Papers: 4.9W
Citations: 7.0W