Specific Emitter Identification Based on Linear Polynomial Fitting of the Energy Envelope

Specific Emitter Identification (SEI) is the technique that identifies the individual radio emitter using the Radio Frequency Fingerprint (RFF), which are originated from the imperfections and differences of transmitters. Previous SEI techniques are sensitive to noise and need enough sampled points. In this paper, a novel SEI approach to extracting fingerprint features of energy envelope of transient signals is proposed. A linear system model is utilized to fit the energy envelope, and the fingerprinting features are constructed by the polynomial coefficients estimated with least-squares algorithm. The results of experiments on actual burst signals demonstrate that the method is effective.