Physical Layer Authentication Based on Hierarchical Variational Auto-Encoder for Industrial Internet of Things

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Main Authors: Meng, Rui, Xu, Xiaodong, Wang, Bizhu, Sun, Hao, Xia, Shida, Han, Shujun, Zhang, Ping
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author Meng, Rui
Xu, Xiaodong
Wang, Bizhu
Sun, Hao
Xia, Shida
Han, Shujun
Zhang, Ping
author_facet Meng, Rui
Xu, Xiaodong
Wang, Bizhu
Sun, Hao
Xia, Shida
Han, Shujun
Zhang, Ping
contents Recently, Physical Layer Authentication (PLA) has attracted much attention since it takes advantage of the channel randomness nature of transmission media to achieve communication confidentiality and authentication. In the complex environment, such as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), machine learning (ML) is widely employed with PLA to extract and analyze complex channel characteristics for identity authentication. However, most PLA schemes for IIoT require attackers' prior channel information, leading to severe performance degradation when the source of the received signals is unknown in the training stage. Thus, a channel impulse response (CIR)-based PLA scheme named "Hierarchical Variational Auto-Encoder (HVAE)" for IIoT is proposed in this article, aiming at achieving high authentication performance without knowing attackers' prior channel information even when trained on a few data in the complex environment. HVAE consists of an Auto-Encoder (AE) module for CIR characteristics extraction and a Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) module for improving the representation ability of the CIR characteristic and outputting the authentication results. Besides, a new objective function is constructed in which both the single-peak and the double-peak Gaussian distribution are taken into consideration in the VAE module. Moreover, the simulations are conducted under the static and mobile IIoT scenario, which verify the superiority of the proposed HVAE over three comparison PLA schemes even with a few training data.
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spellingShingle Physical Layer Authentication Based on Hierarchical Variational Auto-Encoder for Industrial Internet of Things
Meng, Rui
Xu, Xiaodong
Wang, Bizhu
Sun, Hao
Xia, Shida
Han, Shujun
Zhang, Ping
Signal Processing
Recently, Physical Layer Authentication (PLA) has attracted much attention since it takes advantage of the channel randomness nature of transmission media to achieve communication confidentiality and authentication. In the complex environment, such as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), machine learning (ML) is widely employed with PLA to extract and analyze complex channel characteristics for identity authentication. However, most PLA schemes for IIoT require attackers' prior channel information, leading to severe performance degradation when the source of the received signals is unknown in the training stage. Thus, a channel impulse response (CIR)-based PLA scheme named "Hierarchical Variational Auto-Encoder (HVAE)" for IIoT is proposed in this article, aiming at achieving high authentication performance without knowing attackers' prior channel information even when trained on a few data in the complex environment. HVAE consists of an Auto-Encoder (AE) module for CIR characteristics extraction and a Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) module for improving the representation ability of the CIR characteristic and outputting the authentication results. Besides, a new objective function is constructed in which both the single-peak and the double-peak Gaussian distribution are taken into consideration in the VAE module. Moreover, the simulations are conducted under the static and mobile IIoT scenario, which verify the superiority of the proposed HVAE over three comparison PLA schemes even with a few training data.
title Physical Layer Authentication Based on Hierarchical Variational Auto-Encoder for Industrial Internet of Things
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06794