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Radio Frequency Fingerprinting on the Edge


Abstract:

Deep learning methods have been very successful at radio frequency fingerprinting tasks, predicting the identity of transmitting devices with high accuracy. We study radi...Show More

Abstract:

Deep learning methods have been very successful at radio frequency fingerprinting tasks, predicting the identity of transmitting devices with high accuracy. We study radio frequency fingerprinting deployments at resource-constrained edge devices. We use structured pruning to jointly train and sparsify neural networks tailored to edge hardware implementations. We compress convolutional layers by a 27.2\times factor while incurring a negligible prediction accuracy decrease (less than 1 percent). We demonstrate the efficacy of our approach over multiple edge hardware platforms, including a Samsung Gallaxy S10 phone and a Xilinx-ZCU104 FPGA. Our method yields significant inference speedups, 11.5\times on the FPGA and 3\times on the smartphone, as well as high efficiency: the FPGA processing time is 17\times smaller than in a V100 GPU. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to explore the possibility of compressing networks for radio frequency fingerprinting; as such, our experiments can be seen as a means of characterizing the informational capacity associated with this specific learning task.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing ( Volume: 21, Issue: 11, 01 November 2022)
Page(s): 4078 - 4093
Date of Publication: 08 March 2021

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