FLINT: Fingerprinting Federated Learning Architectures from 5G PHY-Layer Side Channels

arXiv:2607.15469 · cs.CR, cs.AI, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-07-16 · Read on arXiv

Md Nahid Hasan Shuvo, Mahmudul Hassan Ashik, Moinul Hossain

cs.CR, cs.AI, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-07-16

Comments: 14 page, 8 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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Fingerprinting — 44× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Federated Learning — 34× in this paper · explained in 14 episodes
Transformer — 23× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Decode — 17× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Trace — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Accuracy — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Late Fusion — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Ablation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Aggregation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Robustness — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Federated Learning (FL) — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy — 3× in this paper
Technical Specification — 3× in this paper
Ablation Studies — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Communication Overhead — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Radio Resource Control — 2× in this paper
AS Security Mode Command — 1× in this paper
Activity Interval — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Adversarial Attacks — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Adversarial Examples — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Alternation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Conflict-Constrained Path Cover — 1× in this paper
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Edge Deployment — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
False Acceptance Rate — 1× in this paper
Feature Extraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Information Leakage — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
K with the Bayesian Information Criterion — 1× in this paper
Medium Access Control — 1× in this paper
Physical-layer Cell Identity — 1× in this paper
Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Wavelet Transform — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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