Authenticating Users Through Fine-Grained Channel Information

作者：Liu, Hongbo^*; Wang, Yan; Liu, Jian; Yang, Jie; Chen, Yingying; Poor, H. Vincent

来源：IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2018, 17(2): 251-264.

DOI：10.1109/TMC.2017.2718540

• User authentication
• channel state information
• wireless networks

User authentication is the critical first step in detecting identity-based attacks and preventing subsequent malicious attacks. However, the increasingly dynamic mobile environments make it harder to always apply cryptographic-based methods for user authentication due to their infrastructural and key management overhead. Exploiting non-cryptographic based techniques grounded on physical layer properties to performuser authentication appears promising. In this work, the use of channel state information (CSI), which is available from off-the-shelf WiFi devices, to performfine-grained user authentication is explored. Particularly, a user-authentication framework that can work with both stationary and mobile users is proposed. When the user is stationary, the proposed framework builds a user profile for user authentication that is resilient to the presence of a spoofer. The proposed machine learning based user-authentication techniques can distinguish between two users even when they possess similar signal fingerprints and detect the existence of a spoofer. When the user is mobile, it is proposed to detect the presence of a spoofer by examining the temporal correlation of CSI measurements. Both office building and apartment environments show that the proposed framework can filter out signal outliers and achieve higher authentication accuracy compared with existing approaches using received signal strength (RSS).

• 出版日期2018-2-1