Radio frequency fingerprinting identification for Zigbee via lightweight CNN

Zigbee is a popular communication protocol in the Internet of things (IoT) which shows great potential in smart home. However, the smart device has the risk of being hijacked by unauthorized users and may result in privacy disclosure. Traditional device identification is based on cryptography which is easy to be cracked. Recently, radio frequency fingerprinting identification (RFFID) is popular in device identification. Traditional RFFID’s power consumption and cost is unacceptable to Zigbee. In order to reduce the cost, more effective model can be used to reduce the number of neurons. This paper proposes a RFFID method based on lightweight convolution neural network (CNN) which can adopt low power consumption and cost. The simulation result shows that this method can identification Zigbee device, and the accuracy reached 100%. Also, the parameter has reduced to about 93%.