arXiv Machine Learning

FreqSpaNet: Frequency and Spatial Learning of SFPF for Physical Layer Hardware Integrity Detection

The paper introduces FreqSpaNet, a neural network designed to detect hardware integrity violations in wireless devices by learning spatio-frequency polarization fingerprints (SFPFs). It employs a dual-branch architecture: a frequency branch that captures local variations across neighboring frequencies and a geometry-aware spatial branch that models directional relationships using angular information. The two learned representations are adaptively fused, and complementary pretraining is used to preserve distinct characteristics while capturing shared information, achieving a mean AUROC of 96.31%—9.05 points above the baseline—across seven hardware replacement scenarios.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 20

Interpretable Feature Learning for RF Fingerprinting via Polar MKANs

Radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting authenticates wireless devices from hardware-induced I/Q impairments, typically with deep learning feature extractors that are accurate but opaque, limiting their use in security critical settings. We propose Polar Monotonic Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (Polar MKAN), a block partitioned monotonic encoder on polar inputs in which each latent dimension depends exclusively on magnitude or phase, yielding channel separation and monotone responses by construction.

arXiv Computer Vision
3d ago

PCB-MC: Missing Component Analysis in Printed Circuit Boards

PCB-MC is a new dataset for detecting missing components on printed circuit boards, featuring 197 distinct board types with footprint-level annotations derived from the RF100 dataset. The dataset includes multiple augmented samples per board type and introduces board type-aware cross‑validation splits to prevent layout leakage between training and test sets. Benchmark results show that supervised models suffer high false‑negative rates on unseen board designs, while unsupervised anomaly detection methods fail due to misalignment with board-specific references, highlighting the remaining challenges in missing component detection across diverse PCB layouts.

By Betsy Villa Brochero, Ian Gibson, Estefania Talavera
arXiv AI
Sep 11

Adaptive Distributed Physical-Layer Authentication and Attack Detection in 6G Non-Terrestrial Networks via Causal Meta-Learning

The paper introduces SAFA-MZ, a secure adaptive framework for physical‑layer authentication in non‑terrestrial networks. It fuses multiple spatial, angular, combiner, subspace, and Doppler‑delay features into a distributed fingerprint and employs a causal meta‑learning strategy with invariant risk minimization to adapt quickly to new environments. A two‑stage authentication process combines local recognition with selective TDOA localization using a graph attention network, reducing backhaul overhead while achieving 92% accuracy and 96% AUC in simulations.

By Parsa Rajabi, Mohammad Reza Abedi, Nader Mokari, Paeiz Azmi, Halim Yanikomeroglu
arXiv AI
Jul 8

Cross-Receiver Open-Set Radio Frequency Fingerprinting via Structure-First Adaptation

arXiv:2607. 02567v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) provides a physical-layer credential for Internet of Things devices, but open-set decisions become fragile when a threshold calibrated on a source receiver is applied to a target receiver.

By Fengchong Yao, Jianbing Li, Qing Liu, Kefeng Song, Haitao Li, Song Wang, Feixiang Wang
arXiv AI
Jul 7

The S-ICDF Dataset: Sionna-Simulated Dynamic Interference Characterization and Direction Finding

arXiv:2607. 03411v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Jamming and spoofing threaten wireless and satellite navigation by disrupting or manipulating radio frequency (RF) signals, undermining availability, integrity, and trust.

By Christian Wielenberg, Lucas Heublein, Jonathan Ott, Alexander Mattick, Nisha L. Raichur, Jonas Pirkl, Lukas Schelenz, Tobias Feigl, George Yammine, Christopher Mutschler, Felix Ott
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 16

RF Spectrogram Anomaly Detection with Quantum Kitchen Sinks: Architecture, Representation, and Hardware Validation

arXiv:2607. 13897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The broadcast nature of wireless channels exposes radio-frequency (RF) networks to anomalous and malicious transmissions, making anomaly detection a fundamental requirement for secure spectrum management.

By Abdallah Aaraba, Alexis Vieloszynski, Remon Polus, Ola Ahmad, Soumaya Cherkaoui
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 15

RF Spectrogram Anomaly Detection with Quantum Kitchen Sinks: Architecture, Representation, and Hardware Validation

The broadcast nature of wireless channels exposes radio-frequency (RF) networks to anomalous and malicious transmissions, making anomaly detection a fundamental requirement for secure spectrum management. Quantum Kitchen Sinks (QKS) offer a lightweight hybrid quantum feature map suitable for near-term quantum devices, yet their behavior on structured signal data remains poorly understood.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 16

Channel-Informed Neural Network for Physical Layer Key Generation

The paper presents a channel-informed neural network for physical-layer key generation (PKG) that extracts binary key features directly from IQ measurements while grounding the representation in the multipath channel. The multi-task recurrent network jointly learns reciprocity-preserving features and an auxiliary channel estimate, using deep metric learning and channel-informed supervision. Experiments on indoor and outdoor software-defined-radio data show lower bit disagreement for legitimate users, improved key diversity with ray-traced augmentation, and successful NIST randomness tests after SHA-3 privacy amplification.

By Jose Angel Sanchez Viloria, George Sklivanitis, Dimitris Pados, Elizabeth Serena Bentley
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18

Calibrated RF-Fingerprinting Under Interference With Heterogeneous Transmission Protocols

The paper presents a calibrated radio‑frequency fingerprinting approach that handles co‑channel interference from multiple transmitters. By framing the task as a multi‑label classification problem, the authors use a 1D CNN and calibrate confidence thresholds to bound the average number of false negatives, ensuring reliable detection of spectrum violations. Experiments on the POWDER 5G testbed with Wi‑Fi, LTE, and 5G NR signals achieve up to 97% accuracy, with calibrated recall closely matching the specified false‑negative bounds even under out‑of‑distribution interference.

By Tariq Abdul-Quddoos, Xiangfang Li, Lijun Qian