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Auteurs principaux: Singh, Chitraksh, Dhanraj, Monisha, Sheriff, Akram
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Publié: 2026
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.30364
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author Singh, Chitraksh
Dhanraj, Monisha
Sheriff, Akram
author_facet Singh, Chitraksh
Dhanraj, Monisha
Sheriff, Akram
contents Radio-frequency (RF) fingerprinting identifies wire-less transmitters using hardware-induced imperfections present in baseband I/Q signals. However, deep learning models often degrade under receiver and channel distribution shifts, particularly as transmitter populations grow. This work proposes the Hamiltonian Transformer, a physics-informed attention architecture that enforces norm preserving value dynamics within each attention head using a learned skew-symmetric generator and a Störmer-Verlet leapfrog integration step. An additional phase-increment embedding exposes oscillator dynamics at the input layer. All experiments use non-equalized raw I/Q signals from the WiSig dataset under four protocols: same-day classification, cross-receiver generalisation, cross-day generalisation, and transmitter scaling up to 150 devices. The Hamiltonian Transformer achieves 99.12% accuracy under same-day conditions and 61.64% at 150 transmitters, consistently outperforming CNN and Transformer baselines across all scale points. A controlled ablation study identifies norm-preservation in the value update as the primary inductive bias driving the scaling advantage, with the phase increment embedding providing the single largest per-component improvement. These results indicate that embedding physics-informed structural priors into attention mechanisms is an effective approach to large-scale transmitter identification on raw wireless signals.
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spellingShingle Hamiltonian-Inspired Attention Mechanism for Scalable RF Transmitter Fingerprinting
Singh, Chitraksh
Dhanraj, Monisha
Sheriff, Akram
Signal Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Radio-frequency (RF) fingerprinting identifies wire-less transmitters using hardware-induced imperfections present in baseband I/Q signals. However, deep learning models often degrade under receiver and channel distribution shifts, particularly as transmitter populations grow. This work proposes the Hamiltonian Transformer, a physics-informed attention architecture that enforces norm preserving value dynamics within each attention head using a learned skew-symmetric generator and a Störmer-Verlet leapfrog integration step. An additional phase-increment embedding exposes oscillator dynamics at the input layer. All experiments use non-equalized raw I/Q signals from the WiSig dataset under four protocols: same-day classification, cross-receiver generalisation, cross-day generalisation, and transmitter scaling up to 150 devices. The Hamiltonian Transformer achieves 99.12% accuracy under same-day conditions and 61.64% at 150 transmitters, consistently outperforming CNN and Transformer baselines across all scale points. A controlled ablation study identifies norm-preservation in the value update as the primary inductive bias driving the scaling advantage, with the phase increment embedding providing the single largest per-component improvement. These results indicate that embedding physics-informed structural priors into attention mechanisms is an effective approach to large-scale transmitter identification on raw wireless signals.
title Hamiltonian-Inspired Attention Mechanism for Scalable RF Transmitter Fingerprinting
topic Signal Processing
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.30364