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Radio frequency fingerprints vs. physical unclonable functions - are they twins, competitors or allies?

Radio frequency fingerprints vs. physical unclonable functions - are they twins, competitors or allies?
Radio frequency fingerprints vs. physical unclonable functions - are they twins, competitors or allies?
Privacy breaches and online frauds are grave concerns in pervasive computing. Device identification is the first line of defense to detect and stop fraud. Conventional device authentication schemes using software addresses as identities or static pre-programmed secret keys are vulnerable to tampering and memory attacks. This article reviews two emerging lightweight hardware-oriented solutions to avoid these problems, namely radio frequency fingerprint (RFF) identification and physical unclonable function (PUF) authentication. Their operating principles and protocols are first introduced, followed by a scrutiny of their common and distinctive features, and a discussion of the stumbling blocks in the way of their market adoption. Finally, we envisage a combined mutual authentication and key establishment scheme to shed light on their synergy.
0890-8044
68 - 75
Zhang, Junqing
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Chang, Chip-Hong
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Gu, Chongyan
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Hanzo, Lajos
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Zhang, Junqing
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Chang, Chip-Hong
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Gu, Chongyan
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Hanzo, Lajos
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Zhang, Junqing, Chang, Chip-Hong, Gu, Chongyan and Hanzo, Lajos (2022) Radio frequency fingerprints vs. physical unclonable functions - are they twins, competitors or allies? IEEE Network, 36 (6), 68 - 75. (doi:10.1109/MNET.107.2100372).

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Privacy breaches and online frauds are grave concerns in pervasive computing. Device identification is the first line of defense to detect and stop fraud. Conventional device authentication schemes using software addresses as identities or static pre-programmed secret keys are vulnerable to tampering and memory attacks. This article reviews two emerging lightweight hardware-oriented solutions to avoid these problems, namely radio frequency fingerprint (RFF) identification and physical unclonable function (PUF) authentication. Their operating principles and protocols are first introduced, followed by a scrutiny of their common and distinctive features, and a discussion of the stumbling blocks in the way of their market adoption. Finally, we envisage a combined mutual authentication and key establishment scheme to shed light on their synergy.

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Accepted/In Press date: 4 May 2022
e-pub ahead of print date: 25 July 2022
Published date: 1 November 2022

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Local EPrints ID: 457321
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/457321
ISSN: 0890-8044
PURE UUID: f9100a88-45cd-495d-80af-4a0e4c6ce6eb
ORCID for Lajos Hanzo: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2636-5214

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Date deposited: 01 Jun 2022 16:37
Last modified: 21 Sep 2024 04:01

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Author: Junqing Zhang
Author: Chip-Hong Chang
Author: Chongyan Gu
Author: Lajos Hanzo ORCID iD

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