The individual identification method of wireless device based on dimensionality reduction and machine learning

• Published in: The Journal of supercomputing Vol. 75; no. 6; pp. 3010 - 3027
• Main Authors: Lin, Yun, Zhu, Xiaolei, Zheng, Zhigao, Dou, Zheng, Zhou, Ruolin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.06.2019; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Artificial neural networks; Authentication; Biometric recognition systems; Compilers; Computer Science; Correlation analysis; Decision analysis; Decision trees; Fingerprint verification; Interpreters; Intrusion detection systems; Machine learning; Processor Architectures; Programming Languages; Radio frequency; Reduction; Security; Support vector machines; Wireless networks; Authentication security; Dimensional reduction; RF fingerprint; Machine learning
• ISSN: 0920-8542; 1573-0484
• DOI: 10.1007/s11227-017-2216-2

The access security of wireless devices is a serious challenge in present wireless network security. Radio frequency (RF) fingerprint recognition technology as an important non-password authentication technology attracts more and more attention, because of its full use of radio frequency characteristics that cannot be imitated to achieve certification. In this paper, a RF fingerprint identification method based on dimensional reduction and machine learning is proposed as a component of intrusion detection for resolving authentication security issues. We compare three kinds of dimensional reduction methods, which are the traditional PCA, RPCA and KPCA. And we take random forests, support vector machine, artificial neural network and grey correlation analysis into consideration to make decisions on the dimensional reduction data. Finally, we obtain the recognition system with the best performance. Using a combination of RPCA and random forests, we achieve 90% classification accuracy is achieved at SNR  ≥  10 dB when reduced dimension is 76. The proposed method improves wireless device authentication and improves security protection due to the introduction of RF fingerprinting.