DNA fingerprints led to the identification of closely related plant species and it is one of the tool for assessing genetic diversity and species relationship. DNA is most stable and does not vary seasonally and with age of the plant. DNA based fingerprinting techniques plays greater role in authentication of botanicals. This review gives an outline about the importance of DNA fingerprinting, D...

The rapid expansion of smartphones’ market coupled with the advances in mobile computing technology has opened up doors for new mobile services and applications. Quite a few of these services require the knowledge of the exact location of their handsets. Although, existing global positioning systems (GPS) perform best in outdoor environments, they have poor performance indoors. This has initiat...

Last decade observed a significant research effort directed towards indoor localization utilizing location fingerprinting techniques. Fingerprinting solutions generally require a pre-deployment site survey procedure during which a radio-map is constructed by laboriously collecting signal strength samples (e.g., Wi-Fi) over the whole localization area. However, such localization efforts have cer...

Website fingerprinting allows a local, passive observer monitoring a web-browsing client’s encrypted channel to determine her web activity. Previous attacks have shown that website fingerprinting could be a threat to anonymity networks such as Tor under laboratory conditions. However, there are significant differences between laboratory conditions and realistic conditions. First, in laboratory ...

An audio fingerprint is a compact content-based signature that summarizes an audio recording. Audio Fingerprinting technologies have attracted attention since they allow the identification of audio independently of its format and without the need of meta-data or watermark embedding. Other uses of fingerprinting include: integrity verification, watermark support and content-based audio retrieval...

The popularity of video sharing platforms such as Youtube has prompted the need for the development of efficient techniques for multimedia identification. Content fingerprinting is a promising solution for this problem, whereby a short “fingerprint” that captures robust and unique characteristics of a signal is computed from each multimedia document. This fingerprint is then compared with a dat...

Indoor positioning systems is an actively researched area of computer science. Various techniques, methods and applications were developed in the last decade. This paper gives a brief comparison of trilateriation and fingerprinting techniques. Received signal strength of WiFi access points were used during the tests. Standard, genetic algorithm and simulated annealing based trilateriation metho...

rticle history: eceived 30 November 2012 eceived in revised form 30 April 2013 ccepted 14 June 2013 vailable online xxxx eywords: adio fingerprinting mpersonation attack hysical layer security ardware security Recently, physical layer security commonly known as Radio Frequency (RF) fingerprinting has been proposed to provide an additional layer of security for wireless devices. A unique RF fing...