Comparison of Radio Frequency Distinct Native Attribute and Matched Filtering Techniques for Device Discrimination and Operation Identification

Abstract

The research presented here provides a comparison of the classification, verification, and computational time performance of three techniques to analyze unintentional radio-frequency (RF) emissions (URE) from semiconductor devices for the purposes of device discrimination and operation identification. URE from ten MSP430F5529 16-bit microcontrollers were analyzed using: 1) RF distinct native attributes (RF-DNA) fingerprints paired with multiple discriminant analysis/maximum likelihood (MDA/ML) classification, 2) RF-DNA fingerprints paired with generalized relevance learning vector quantized-improved (GRLVQI) classification, and 3) time domain (TD) signals paired with matchedfiltering. These techniques were considered for potential applications to detect counterfeit/Trojan hardware infiltrating supply chains and to defend against cyber attacks by monitoring the executed operations of embedded systems in critical supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) networks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 24, 2016
Accession Number
AD1053877

Entities

People

  • Barron D. Stone

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Cyberattacks
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Electronic Components
  • Field Programmable Gate Arrays
  • Information Systems
  • Instruction Set Architecture
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Load Monitoring
  • Operating Systems
  • Semiconductor Devices
  • Semiconductors
  • Signal Processing
  • United States Government

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Cyber - Quantum
  • Microelectronics