Design and Implementation of a Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification System

Abstract

Aiming at the actual application scenario of radio frequency (RF) fingerprint identification, a low-cost, small-volume embedded system for specific identification of RF devices is designed and implemented, and the improved VGG-16 model is used to extract the RF fingerprint features of RF signals. The hardware of the system consists of two parts: the RF Signal Acquisition Module and the RF Fingerprint Identification Module. The RF Signal Acquisition Module uses Zedboard as the main control board, and the AD9361 chip is the RF signal receiving circuit; the RF Fingerprint Identification Module uses FPGA to accelerate the deep learning algorithm, and displays the identification results on the host computer. Using 6 wireless routers of the same model for testing, the system has an identification accuracy rate of 96% for wireless routers in the actual electromagnetic environment, and the real-time identification feedback time is about 6 seconds, which has a certain practical application value.