The Design and Development of a Radio Frequency (RF) Watermarking Signature

Abstract

This report describes in-house work performed by AFRL that focused on the design and development of a Radio Frequency (RF) watermark signature' that can be used to authenticate a modulated signal. The objective of this effort not only included developing a watermarking technique, but also simulating it and, most importantly, using an in-house testbed to verify the technique from a hardware standpoint. Due to the subtle nature of a watermark signature, it was felt that full hardware verification was needed in order to validate the concept. A testbed comprised of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and RF integrated circuits (RFICs) and were used to quickly prototype the technique.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA439078

Entities

People

  • Stephen C. Tyler

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Change Detection
  • Circuits
  • Communication Systems
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Field Programmable Gate Arrays
  • Frequency
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Intellectual Property
  • Modulation
  • Modulators
  • Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
  • Radio Frequency
  • Signal Processing
  • Spectrum Analyzers
  • Surface Acoustic Waves

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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