Research Article

An Analysis of the Privacy Threat in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks due to Radio Frequency Fingerprinting

Table 2

Identifiers of the statistical features.

Statistical feature Feature description Related equation Feature identifier

Variance The variance is the mean squared variance of a distribution from its mean Equation (3) 1
Skewness The skewness characterizes the degree of asymmetry of a distribution around its mean Equation (4) 2
Kurtosis Kurtosis measures the relative peakedness or flatness of a distribution Equation (5) 3
Shannon Entropy Shannon Entropy is the expected value of the information contained in a signal based on the definition by Shannon Equation (6) 4
Log Energy Entropy Log Energy Entropy is the expected value of the information contained in a signal based on a logarithmic scale Equation (7) 5