arXiv:2607. 02567v1 Announce Type: 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 transferred to a target receiver.
By Fengchong Yao, Jianbing Li, Qing Liu, Kefeng Song, Haitao Li, Song Wang, Feixiang Wang
arXiv:2607. 09760v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) uses transmitter-specific hardware imperfections as a physicallayer identity cue for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, but deep RFFI models often degrade when the acquisition environment changes.
By Fengchong Yao, Jianbing Li, Qing Liu, Qikun Liu, Kefeng Song, Haitao Li, Song Wang
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.
By Xiaoxuan Huang, Jinlong Xu, YiZhe Wang, Meng Zhang, Xian Li, Yuying Bian
arXiv:2608. 19881v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 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.
By Mikhail Krasnov, Ljupcho Milosheski, Carolina Fortuna
arXiv:2608. 07444v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate user equipment (UE) localization is critical for beam management in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted millimeter-wave (mmWave) based sixth-generation (6G) networks, especially if the direct base-station-UE links are unavailable.
By Md Tarek Hassan, Dmitry Zelenchuk, Muhammad Ali Babar Abbasi
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:2507.12133v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Device recognition is vital for security in wireless communication systems, particularly for applications like access control. Radio Frequency Fing...
By Hanwen Liu, Yuhe Huang, Yifeng Gong, Yanjie Zhai, Jiaxuan Lu
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
arXiv:2608. 08439v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Heterogeneous RF sensing differs substantially in feature structure, spatial layout, and temporal scale, making existing models difficult to reuse across devices, environments, and RF modalities.
By Jing Wang, Zhu Wang, Changlong Cheng, Yifan Guo, Yin Zhang
The paper surveys wireless foundation models (WFMs), highlighting their role in learning reusable representations from large-scale wireless data for physical-layer tasks. It systematically reviews WFM design components—pretraining, backbone architectures, and downstream adaptation—and categorizes the literature into five task families: signal recognition and demodulation, channel representation learning, RF sensing and localization, beam management, and spectrum sensing and monitoring, including multi-task models. The analysis reveals that while WFMs show promise, evidence of transferability varies across tasks and evaluation settings, and differences in datasets, modalities, architectures, and distribution shifts hinder clear conclusions about effective design choices.
By Alonso M. Pacheco Huachaca, Juan J. Rodriguez Rodriguez, Ahmed Aboulfotouh, Nelson L. S. da Fonseca, Carlos A. Astudillo, Hatem Abou-Zeid
arXiv:2606. 23710v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ubiquitous perception through RF signals is a pivotal opportunity for future technology: it enables personalized services such as smart living, remote healthcare, automated logistics or interaction through free-space gestures.
By Riccardo Bersan, Anay Ajit Deshpande, Sanaz Kianoush, Daniele Piazza, Stefano Savazzi
arXiv:2507. 19653v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the realism of Sionna v1.
By Armen Manukyan, Hrant Khachatrian, Edvard Ghukasyan, Theofanis P. Raptis