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Dataset for A Robust, Over-the-Air Test Bed for Radio-Frequency Fingerprinting of Cellular Devices

Metadata Updated: March 14, 2025

This dataset contains results represented in the work titled 'A Robust, Over-the-Air Test Bed for Radio-Frequency Fingerprinting of Cellular Devices', whose abstract sample is below. We present a characterized test bed and algorithms for non-destructive, over-the-air fingerprinting of commercial cellular user equipment (UE). This test bed is designed to repeatably collect radiated fields from cellular devices in a 4G long term evolution (LTE) network configuration. We describe a straightforward classification algorithm to determine the model of each cellular device that allows for a direct correlation between input data from test cellular phones and identification efficacy. Additionally, by controlling the radio channel conditions, we provide a framework for transparently studying dominant uncertainties and sensitivities in data-driven cellular device fingerprinting. The algorithm performs classification with either the error vector magnitude, a quantity derived from demodulated data, or the out-of-band frequency ___domain response of the cellular devices. We have investigated the robustness over time of this fingerprinting method and show over 95% accuracy in identifying UE models from different manufacturers and gaining insight into parameters that can cause a reduction in this level of accuracy and in data-driven approaches in general. This work is part of a larger effort to identify and create a database of genuine off-the-shelf cellular devices to help mitigate counterfeiting and hardware security tampering using RF fingerprinting. As such, the raw data are text files in comma separated value (CSV) format. The text files have varying numbers of columns depending on the figure it is attributed to.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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Metadata Created Date March 14, 2025
Metadata Updated Date March 14, 2025
Data Update Frequency irregular

Metadata Source

Harvested from NIST

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date March 14, 2025
Metadata Updated Date March 14, 2025
Publisher National Institute of Standards and Technology
Maintainer
Identifier ark:/88434/mds2-3629
Data First Published 2025-01-17
Language en
Data Last Modified 2024-11-04 00:00:00
Category Advanced Communications:Wireless (RF), Metrology:Electrical/electromagnetic metrology
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency irregular
Bureau Code 006:55
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 0342f31e-9cb0-4121-8350-a002f82b7b99
Harvest Source Id 74e175d9-66b3-4323-ac98-e2a90eeb93c0
Harvest Source Title NIST
Homepage URL https://data.nist.gov/od/id/mds2-3629
License https://www.nist.gov/open/license
Program Code 006:045
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 1214aa491ab17372a09c3ccca5bc030a63da405c5dd07f46450e6013ddbd5ae8
Source Schema Version 1.1

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