Paper Info
Title
RF-DNA Fingerprinting for Airport WiMax Communications Security
Abstract
Wireless communication security is addressed using device-specific RF-DNA fingerprints in a localized regional air monitor. The targeted application includes IEEE 802.16 WiMax-based airport communications such as being proposed by the Euro control and FAA organizations–concept validation is currently underway using the Aeronautical Mobile Airport Communications System (AeroMACS) network. Security enhancement via RF-DNA fingerprinting is motivated by earlier RF-DNA work using GMSK-based intra-cellular GSM signals and OFDM-based 802.11a peer-to-peer WiFi signals. The commonality that WiMax shares with these two existing communication systems, i.e., the cellular control structure of GSM and the multi-carrier OFDM modulation of 802.11a, suggests that RF-DNA fingerprinting may be effective for WiMax device discrimination. This is important given that WiMax shares some common features that may prove detrimental, to include bit-level authentication, privacy, and security mechanisms. It is reasonable to assume that these bit-level mechanisms will come under attack as ``hackers'' apply lessons learned from their previous successes. The contributions of this paper include: 1) the introduction of a Spectral Domain (SD) RF-DNA fingerprinting technique to augment previous Time Domain (TD) and Wavelet Domain (WD) techniques, and 2) a first look at AeroMACS physical waveform features and the potential applicability of RF-DNA fingerprinting using operationally collected signals.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/NSS.2010.21
NSS
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
device-specific rf-dna fingerprint,rf-dna fingerprinting,security enhancement,rf-dna work,previous time domain,rf-dna fingerprinting technique,wimax device discrimination,wimax share,airport wimax communications security,spectral domain,wavelet domain,ofdm,signal to noise ratio,minimum shift keying,network security,security,wireless communication,fingerprint recognition,ofdm modulation,orthogonal frequency division multiplexing,wimax,time domain,communication system,control structure,dna fingerprinting
Conference
16
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.96
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
McKay D. Williams1422.47
Sheldon A. Munns2160.96
Michael A. Temple346148.93
Michael J. Mendenhall412213.14