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20242026
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7 papers

eess.SP2026

Characterizing and Mitigating the Effects of Device Temperature on RF Fingerprinting Accuracy

Haytham Albousayri, Bechir Hamdaoui

Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (RFFP) has emerged as a promising approach for device authentication by exploiting hardware-specific impairments embedded in transmitted signals. Yet…

eess.SP2026

Replicating the Signature: Unsupervised Targeted Impersonation Attack on RF Fingerprinting

Haytham Albousayri, Bechir Hamdaoui

This paper presents a novel impersonation attack framework that aims to fool RF Fingerprinting (RFFP) identification systems by synthesizing signals that replicate the hardware-spe…

cs.CR2026

HEEDFUL: Leveraging Sequential Transfer Learning for Robust WiFi Device Fingerprinting Amid Hardware Warm-Up Effects

Abdurrahman Elmaghbub, Bechir Hamdaoui

Deep Learning-based RF fingerprinting approaches struggle to perform well in cross-domain scenarios, particularly during hardware warm-up. This often-overlooked vulnerability has b…

eess.SP2025

Bluetooth Fingerprint Identification Under Domain Shift Through Transient Phase Derivative

Haytham Albousayri, Bechir Hamdaoui, Weng-Keen Wong +1

Deep learning-based radio frequency fingerprinting (RFFP) has become an enabling physical-layer security technology, allowing device identification and authentication through recei…

cs.CR2025

Secret-Key Agreement Through Hidden Markov Modeling of Wavelet Scattering Embeddings

Nora Basha, Bechir Hamdaoui, Attila A. Yavuz +2

Secret-key generation and agreement based on wireless channel reciprocity offers a promising avenue for securing IoT networks. However, existing approaches predominantly rely on th…

eess.SP2025

Wavelet-Based CSI Reconstruction for Improved Wireless Security Through Channel Reciprocity

Nora Basha, Bechir Hamdaoui

The reciprocity of channel state information (CSI) collected by two devices communicating over a wireless channel has been leveraged to provide security solutions to resource-limit…