Cross-Receiver Generalization for RF Fingerprint Identification via Feature Disentanglement and Adversarial Training

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Autori principali: Pan, Yuhao, Wang, Xiucheng, Huo, Fushuo, Cheng, Nan, Xu, Wenchao
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author Pan, Yuhao
Wang, Xiucheng
Huo, Fushuo
Cheng, Nan
Xu, Wenchao
author_facet Pan, Yuhao
Wang, Xiucheng
Huo, Fushuo
Cheng, Nan
Xu, Wenchao
contents Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) is a key technique for wireless network security, leveraging intrinsic hardware imperfections to enable transmitter identification. Although deep neural networks are effective at extracting discriminative RF features, their performance is significantly affected by receiver-induced variability in practical deployments. In real-world scenarios, RF signals inherently entangle transmitter-specific characteristics with receiver-dependent distortions, leading models to capture receiver-related patterns when training and evaluation are conducted on the same device. Consequently, replacing the receiver during deployment often results in notable performance degradation. To address this issue, we propose a cross-receiver robust RFFI framework that explicitly disentangles transmitter-specific and receiver-specific representations. The proposed method integrates adversarial domain alignment with receiver-aware regularization to suppress residual receiver information in transmitter features while enforcing intra-receiver consistency in receiver-specific representations. A feature separation constraint is further introduced to decouple the two components in the latent space. Extensive experiments on multi-receiver WiFi datasets demonstrate that the proposed method consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines under cross-receiver evaluation and significantly improves robustness to receiver replacement.
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spellingShingle Cross-Receiver Generalization for RF Fingerprint Identification via Feature Disentanglement and Adversarial Training
Pan, Yuhao
Wang, Xiucheng
Huo, Fushuo
Cheng, Nan
Xu, Wenchao
Machine Learning
Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) is a key technique for wireless network security, leveraging intrinsic hardware imperfections to enable transmitter identification. Although deep neural networks are effective at extracting discriminative RF features, their performance is significantly affected by receiver-induced variability in practical deployments. In real-world scenarios, RF signals inherently entangle transmitter-specific characteristics with receiver-dependent distortions, leading models to capture receiver-related patterns when training and evaluation are conducted on the same device. Consequently, replacing the receiver during deployment often results in notable performance degradation. To address this issue, we propose a cross-receiver robust RFFI framework that explicitly disentangles transmitter-specific and receiver-specific representations. The proposed method integrates adversarial domain alignment with receiver-aware regularization to suppress residual receiver information in transmitter features while enforcing intra-receiver consistency in receiver-specific representations. A feature separation constraint is further introduced to decouple the two components in the latent space. Extensive experiments on multi-receiver WiFi datasets demonstrate that the proposed method consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines under cross-receiver evaluation and significantly improves robustness to receiver replacement.
title Cross-Receiver Generalization for RF Fingerprint Identification via Feature Disentanglement and Adversarial Training
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09405