Machine learning for wireless networks co-existence and security

Another frontier in our research portfolio is aimed at developing machine learning framework to provide higher layer awareness among co-existing networks and enhance security. The widespread deployment of wireless devices poses new challenges in spectrum management and coexistence between heterogeneous devices. The first step in improving coexistence between different devices requires understanding the nature of signals occupying the spectrum. The large number of possible waveforms along with impairments added by the channel and the radio hardware make this problem challenging and drive the need for machine learning approaches to address it.  We have developed a blind signal identification approach based on deep learning using only a short sequence of received samples that achieved the recovery of its symbols without any prior knowledge about the signal [8]. While spectrum sharing enables more flexible and efficient usage of spectrum, it also opens possibilities for new types of security attacks. We have considered the problem of transmitter authorization based on their physical layer fingerprints, and developed deep learning algorithm that exploits power amplifier nonlinearity fingerprint for robust recognition of rouge devices [9]. More recently, we are considering an open set scenario and anomaly detection, where it is further required to differentiate authorized transmitters from unauthorized ones.

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E. Krijestorac, H. Sallouha, S. Sarkar, D. Cabric, "Agile Radio Map Prediction Using Deep Learning," in the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), June 2023
S. Hanna, S. Karunaratne, and D. Cabric, "Deep Learning Approaches for Open Set Wireless Transmitter Authorization", in IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Feb. 2020.
J. Feng, T. Zhao, S. Sarkar, D. Konrad, T. Jacques, D. Cabric, and N. Sehatbakhsh. "Fingerprinting IoT Devices Using Latent Physical Side-Channels," Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 7, 2, Article 54, June 2023
B. W. Domae, V. Boljanovic, R. Li, D. Cabric, "Machine Learning Prediction for Phase-less Millimeter-Wave Beam Tracking," in the 23rd IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), July 2022
H. Yan, B. W. Domae, D. Cabric, "mmRAPID: Machine Learning assisted Noncoherent Compressive Millimeter-Wave Beam Alignment," in the 4th ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave Networks and Sensing Systems (mmNets), September 2020
M. Mirmohammadsadeghi, S. Hanna, D. Cabric, “Modulation Classification using Convolutional Neural Networks and Spatial Transformer Networks”,(invited paper) in Proc. IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, October 2017.
S. Karunaratne, S. Hanna, and D. Cabric, "Open Set RF Fingerprinting using Generative Outlier Augmentation," in 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), December 2021
S. Karunaratne, S. Hanna, D. Cabric, "Real-time Wireless Transmitter Authorization: Adapting to Dynamic Authorized Sets with Information Retrieval," in 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN), December 2021