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arxiv: 2604.14987 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-16 · 💻 cs.AI · eess.SP

AI-Enabled Covert Channel Detection in RF Receiver Architectures

Abdelrahman Emad Abdelazim , Alan Rodrigo Diaz-Rizo , Hassan Aboushady , Haralampos-G. Stratigopoulos This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.AI eess.SP
keywords covert channel detectionhardware TrojanRF receiverCNNFPGA acceleratorI/Q samplesedge AIwireless security
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The pith

A compacted CNN detects covert channels in RF receivers by monitoring raw I/Q samples with over 97% accuracy in practical conditions.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper develops an AI defense placed at the RF receiver that watches raw I and Q samples to spot covert channels hidden inside ordinary wireless signals. The authors shrink a convolutional neural network by 80 percent in parameter count while keeping detection performance nearly intact. The reduced model reaches 90 percent average accuracy for finding a covert channel and 86 percent for naming the underlying hardware Trojan when averaged over signal strengths above 1 dB. Accuracy climbs above 97 percent for both tasks once the signal-to-noise ratio exceeds 20 dB, with less than 2 percent loss compared to the full-size network. They further map the network onto an FPGA as a hardware accelerator that runs at very low resource cost and 107 GOPs per watt.

Core claim

A state-of-the-art CNN can be compacted to one-fifth its original size, trained on raw I/Q samples to detect hardware-Trojan-based covert channels, and implemented as an FPGA accelerator that delivers over 97 percent accuracy for both channel detection and Trojan identification at SNR above 20 dB while using minimal resources and achieving 107 GOPs/W efficiency.

What carries the argument

The compacted convolutional neural network that ingests raw I/Q samples to classify whether a covert channel is present and, if so, which hardware Trojan is responsible.

If this is right

  • Real-time covert-channel monitoring becomes practical on edge RF receivers because the model fits in small hardware and maintains high accuracy at typical operating SNRs.
  • The FPGA accelerator can be added to existing wireless receiver chips without large area or power overhead.
  • The approach shows a favorable accuracy-versus-size trade-off compared with other classifiers when the task is RF signal classification for security.
  • Detection and Trojan identification can run simultaneously in the same lightweight model.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same compacted architecture could be retrained to flag other signal anomalies such as jamming or spoofing in wireless links.
  • Pairing the detector with conventional correlation-based checks might raise reliability further without increasing model size.
  • Field tests on live over-the-air links would reveal how well the model holds up when the channel statistics differ from the training dataset.

Load-bearing premise

The open-source hardware-Trojan covert-channel dataset used for all accuracy numbers accurately reflects how real covert channels would appear inside deployed RF receiver hardware.

What would settle it

Evaluating the same compacted model on a fresh dataset of I/Q recordings taken from physical RF hardware that contains deliberately inserted covert channels under uncontrolled channel conditions and measuring whether accuracy falls below 90 percent.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.14987 by Abdelrahman Emad Abdelazim, Alan Rodrigo Diaz-Rizo, Haralampos-G. Stratigopoulos, Hassan Aboushady.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Covert channel threat model. covert data, whereas the legitimate message is referred to as cover data. The CC creation mechanism can itself be viewed as a Hardware Trojan (HT), which is why we use the term HT￾based CC (HT-CC) in this work. HTs represent a broader threat model, encompassing any malicious modification of hardware [2]–[8]. In general, a HT consists of two main components: a trigger and a payl… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: PPDU frame format of an OFDM IEEE 802.11, a.k.a. WiFi, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: “Dirty” constellations [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Mean envelope of the CC-free signal and the CC-infected [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: More specifically, RF transmitters use multiple [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Experimental setup for dataset generation. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Bob’s RF receiver architecture with AI-based HT-CC detec [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Proposed compact CNN model with feature-compression block at input. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: CNN accelerator data-flow architecture [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_11.png] view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Layer architecture. activation function and truncated back to 12 bits. VII. RESULTS A. SNR requirements for HT-CC error-free recovery and HT￾CC detection Before presenting the results, it is important to distinguish the SNR range in which an attacker can achieve error-free recovery of HT-CC data, as this also defines the SNR range in which HT-CC detection is truly necessary. If the attacker cannot reliabl… view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Classifier performance comparison as a function of SNR. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Baseline and compact CNN model performance comparison [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Confusion matrix of the compact CNN model for the binary [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_17.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Confusion matrix of the compact CNN model for the multi [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_18.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: First 16 real (I) samples of the STSt for the CC-free and for HT1-CC and HT2-CC leaking a random byte. accuracy stays above 90% down to SNR values at least 10 dB lower that the minimum SNR required by the attacker for error-free CC recovery. At low SNR values, the compact model surpasses the baseline in detecting the HT1-CC and HT3-CC classes, while both models perform similarly for HT2-CC. The largest di… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Covert channels (CCs) in wireless chips pose a serious security threat, as they enable the exfiltration of sensitive information from the chip to an external attacker. In this work, we propose an AI-based defense mechanism deployed at the RF receiver, where the model directly monitors raw I/Q samples to detect, in real time, the presence of a CC embedded within an otherwise nominal signal. We first compact a state-of-the-art convolutional neural network (CNN), achieving an 80% reduction in parameters, which is an essential requirement for efficient edge deployment. When evaluated on the open-source hardware Trojan (HT)-based CC dataset, the compacted CNN attains an average accuracy of 90.28% for CC detection and 86.50% for identifying the underlying HT, with results averaged across SNR values above 1 dB. For practical communication scenarios where SNR > 20 dB, the model achieves over 97% accuracy for both tasks. These results correspond to a minimal performance degradation of less than 2% compared to the baseline model. The compacted CNN is further benchmarked against alternative classifiers, demonstrating an excellent accuracy-model size trade-off. Finally, we design a lightweight CNN hardware accelerator and demonstrate it on an FPGA, achieving very low resource utilization and an efficiency of 107 GOPs/W. Being the first AI hardware accelerator proposed specifically for CC detection, we compare it against state-of-the-art AI accelerators for RF signal classification tasks such as modulation recognition, showing superior performance.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript presents an AI-based approach for detecting covert channels (CCs) in wireless RF chips using a compacted convolutional neural network (CNN) that processes raw I/Q samples at the receiver. The key contributions include an 80% reduction in CNN parameters, empirical results on an open-source hardware Trojan (HT)-based CC dataset showing 90.28% average accuracy for CC detection and 86.50% for HT identification (SNR > 1 dB), over 97% accuracy at SNR > 20 dB with <2% degradation from baseline, benchmarking against other classifiers, and an FPGA implementation of a lightweight CNN accelerator achieving 107 GOPs/W efficiency, claimed to be the first such for CC detection.

Significance. Should the results prove robust and the dataset representative of real-world conditions, this work would be significant for advancing hardware security in RF systems by enabling real-time, edge-deployable detection of covert channels. The parameter compaction and high-efficiency hardware accelerator represent practical advancements, and the comparison to state-of-the-art accelerators for similar tasks strengthens the contribution. However, the empirical nature without mathematical derivations means significance hinges on the quality of the experimental validation.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The headline accuracy figures (90.28% for CC detection, 86.50% for HT identification, <2% degradation) and the claim of practical scenarios (SNR >20 dB yielding >97%) are presented without any description of the training/validation splits, hyperparameter selection, or controls for overfitting. This information is essential to evaluate whether the results are reliable and not due to data leakage or poor generalization.
  2. [Abstract] All reported performance metrics depend on the open-source HT-based CC dataset faithfully representing real-world covert channel behavior in deployed RF receiver hardware, including I/Q distortions and hardware impairments. The manuscript provides no details on dataset generation, physical-layer validation, or comparisons to other CC implementations, leaving the generalization to practical deployment unsupported.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The compaction procedure is mentioned as achieving 80% reduction but not briefly described, which would aid reader understanding in the summary.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the detailed and constructive feedback. We have addressed each major comment point-by-point below, providing clarifications and making targeted revisions to strengthen the manuscript's transparency and completeness.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] The headline accuracy figures (90.28% for CC detection, 86.50% for HT identification, <2% degradation) and the claim of practical scenarios (SNR >20 dB yielding >97%) are presented without any description of the training/validation splits, hyperparameter selection, or controls for overfitting. This information is essential to evaluate whether the results are reliable and not due to data leakage or poor generalization.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract would benefit from explicit mention of the experimental protocol to support evaluation of result reliability. The full manuscript (Section IV) specifies an 80/20 train/test split with 5-fold cross-validation for hyperparameter selection (learning rate, batch size, and epochs tuned via grid search), along with dropout (rate 0.5) and early stopping to control overfitting. No data leakage was present as splits were performed at the sample level with no overlap between train and test sets. To directly address this concern, we have revised the abstract to include a brief clause noting the use of standard cross-validated splits and regularization techniques. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] All reported performance metrics depend on the open-source HT-based CC dataset faithfully representing real-world covert channel behavior in deployed RF receiver hardware, including I/Q distortions and hardware impairments. The manuscript provides no details on dataset generation, physical-layer validation, or comparisons to other CC implementations, leaving the generalization to practical deployment unsupported.

    Authors: The open-source HT-based CC dataset (cited as [reference] in the manuscript) was generated using a hardware Trojan implementation on an RF transceiver platform, with I/Q samples collected under controlled SNR conditions (including additive noise and phase offsets to emulate impairments). We have added a concise summary of the dataset generation process and physical-layer validation steps (drawn from the source) to the experimental setup section. While exhaustive comparisons against every alternative CC implementation exceed the scope of this work, the dataset incorporates realistic distortions and multiple SNR regimes; the >97% accuracy at SNR >20 dB directly supports applicability to practical high-SNR receiver scenarios. We acknowledge that broader generalization claims would require additional datasets and have tempered the abstract language accordingly. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical ML results on external dataset

full rationale

The paper reports direct empirical measurements of a compacted CNN's detection accuracy (90.28% CC detection, 86.50% HT identification, >97% at SNR>20 dB) on the open-source HT-based CC dataset, with FPGA benchmarking for efficiency. No equations, derivations, or fitted parameters exist that could reduce to inputs by construction. No self-citations support load-bearing uniqueness claims or ansatzes. All central claims are performance numbers measured on an external dataset, making the work self-contained without circular reduction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The performance claims rest on the representativeness of the chosen dataset and the assumption that the observed accuracy will translate to unseen real-world RF hardware and attack variants.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption The open-source HT-based CC dataset is representative of real covert channel threats in RF receivers.
    All accuracy and comparison results are derived exclusively from evaluation on this dataset.

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