Automated Labeling and Learning for Physical Layer Authentication Against Clone Node and Sybil Attacks in Industrial Wireless Edge Networks

In this article, a scheme to detect both clone and Sybil attacks by using channel-based machine learning is proposed. To identify malicious attacks, channel responses between sensor peers have been explored as a form of fingerprints with spatial and temporal uniqueness. Moreover, the machine-learning-based method is applied to provide a more accurate authentication rate. Specifically, by combining with edge devices, we apply a threshold detection method based on channel differences to provide offline training sample sets with labels for the machine learning algorithm, which avoids manually generating labels. Therefore, our proposed scheme is lightweight for resource constrained industrial wireless devices, since only an online-decision making is required. Extensive simulations and experiments were conducted in real industrial environments. Both results show that the authentication accuracy rate of our strategy with an appropriate threshold can achieve 84% without manual labeling.