Cross-session Specific Emitter Identification using Adversarial Domain Adaptation with Wasserstein distance

Accurate and robust specific emitter identification (SEI) is very challenging since distribution shift of signals occurs in cross-session scenario. General domain adaptation (DA) is proposed to alleviate the shift by aligning different signal distributions. However, existing general-DA based SEI methods which focus on the shift in the same session cannot be directly applied to cross-session SEI, since the distribution of signals varies more drastically in different sessions due to the continuously changing hardware imperfections. In this paper, we propose a novel method named adversarial domain adaptation with wasserstein distance (ADAW) to tackle the cross-session SEI. Specifically, to alleviate the severer distribution shift of signals in different sessions, a generative model is applied to map the data of previous session to latter session regardless of the degree of radio frequency fingerprints (RFFs) variations. Then, a wasserstein distance guided adversarial unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) strategy is introduced to learn common feature representations for signals of different sessions, such that the model trained on the signals of previous session can precisely identify the signals of latter session. Experiments on ADS-B signals of same emitters in three distinct time sessions validate the capability of ADAW for SEI under cross-session and noisy conditions.