APEG: Adaptive Physical Layer Authentication with Channel Extrapolation and Generative AI

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Hauptverfasser: Cheng, Xiqi, Meng, Rui, Xu, Xiaodong, Gao, Haixiao, Zhang, Ping, Niyato, Dusit
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author Cheng, Xiqi
Meng, Rui
Xu, Xiaodong
Gao, Haixiao
Zhang, Ping
Niyato, Dusit
author_facet Cheng, Xiqi
Meng, Rui
Xu, Xiaodong
Gao, Haixiao
Zhang, Ping
Niyato, Dusit
contents With the rapid advancement of 6G, identity authentication has become increasingly critical for ensuring wireless security. The lightweight and keyless Physical Layer Authentication (PLA) is regarded as an instrumental security measure in addition to traditional cryptography-based authentication methods. However, existing PLA schemes often struggle to adapt to dynamic radio environments. To overcome this limitation, we propose the Adaptive PLA with Channel Extrapolation and Generative AI (APEG), designed to enhance authentication robustness in dynamic scenarios. Leveraging Generative AI (GAI), the framework adaptively generates Channel State Information (CSI) fingerprints, thereby improving the precision of identity verification. To refine CSI fingerprint generation, we propose the Collaborator-Cleaned Masked Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (CCMDM), which incorporates collaborator-provided fingerprints as conditional inputs for channel extrapolation. Additionally, we develop the Cross-Attention Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (CADM), employing a cross-attention mechanism to align multi-scale channel fingerprint features, further enhancing generation accuracy. Simulation results demonstrate the superiority of the APEG framework over existing time-sequence-based PLA schemes in authentication performance. Notably, CCMDM exhibits a significant advantage in convergence speed, while CADM, compared with model-free, time-series, and VAE-based methods, achieves superior accuracy in CSI fingerprint generation. The code is available at https://github.com/xiqicheng192-del/APEG
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spellingShingle APEG: Adaptive Physical Layer Authentication with Channel Extrapolation and Generative AI
Cheng, Xiqi
Meng, Rui
Xu, Xiaodong
Gao, Haixiao
Zhang, Ping
Niyato, Dusit
Signal Processing
With the rapid advancement of 6G, identity authentication has become increasingly critical for ensuring wireless security. The lightweight and keyless Physical Layer Authentication (PLA) is regarded as an instrumental security measure in addition to traditional cryptography-based authentication methods. However, existing PLA schemes often struggle to adapt to dynamic radio environments. To overcome this limitation, we propose the Adaptive PLA with Channel Extrapolation and Generative AI (APEG), designed to enhance authentication robustness in dynamic scenarios. Leveraging Generative AI (GAI), the framework adaptively generates Channel State Information (CSI) fingerprints, thereby improving the precision of identity verification. To refine CSI fingerprint generation, we propose the Collaborator-Cleaned Masked Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (CCMDM), which incorporates collaborator-provided fingerprints as conditional inputs for channel extrapolation. Additionally, we develop the Cross-Attention Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (CADM), employing a cross-attention mechanism to align multi-scale channel fingerprint features, further enhancing generation accuracy. Simulation results demonstrate the superiority of the APEG framework over existing time-sequence-based PLA schemes in authentication performance. Notably, CCMDM exhibits a significant advantage in convergence speed, while CADM, compared with model-free, time-series, and VAE-based methods, achieves superior accuracy in CSI fingerprint generation. The code is available at https://github.com/xiqicheng192-del/APEG
title APEG: Adaptive Physical Layer Authentication with Channel Extrapolation and Generative AI
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21923