Cross-Receiver Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification Based on Domain Adaptation With Dynamic Distribution Alignment
Junhao Feng, Shengliang Fang, Youchen Fan · IEEE Internet of Things Journal · 2025
Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification (RFFI) utilizes non-ideal hardware features present in the signal to identify different transmitters. However, existing RFFI models have poor generalization capabilities. When a model trained on one receiver is deployed on a new receiver, the identification performance of the model degrades due to the effect of different receiver characteristics, which can cause the signal distribution to be shifted. To address this problem, we propose a crossreceiver RFFI based on domain adaptation with dynamic distribution alignment. First, deep features are extracted using the ResNet18 network and the global distribution of the features is aligned using Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD). Then multilevel features are extracted using a designed multiscale feature extraction module and the subdomain distribution is aligned using Local Maximum Mean Discrepancy (LMMD). Finally, a dynamic parameter is introduced to adaptively adjust the relative importance between the global and subdomain distributions. Twelve sets of cross-receiver experiments are conducted on the WiSig dataset, and the algorithm in this paper achieves an average identification rate of 92.52 domain. Meanwhile, the experimental results under different signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) also verify the algorithm has strong robust performance. It shows that the algorithm can effectively alleviate the model performance degradation problem in the cross-receiver scenarios.