GPS-Spoofing Attack Detection Mechanism for UAV Swarms

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mykytyn, Pavlo, Brzozowski, Marcin, Dyka, Zoya, Langendoerfer, Peter
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866912741204164608
author Mykytyn, Pavlo
Brzozowski, Marcin
Dyka, Zoya
Langendoerfer, Peter
author_facet Mykytyn, Pavlo
Brzozowski, Marcin
Dyka, Zoya
Langendoerfer, Peter
contents Recently autonomous and semi-autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms started to receive a lot of research interest and demand from various civil application fields. However, for successful mission execution, UAV swarms require Global navigation satellite system signals and in particular, Global Positioning System (GPS) signals for navigation. Unfortunately, civil GPS signals are unencrypted and unauthenticated, which facilitates the execution of GPS spoofing attacks. During these attacks, adversaries mimic the authentic GPS signal and broadcast it to the targeted UAV in order to change its course, and force it to land or crash. In this study, we propose a GPS spoofing detection mechanism capable of detecting single-transmitter and multi-transmitter GPS spoofing attacks to prevent the outcomes mentioned above. Our detection mechanism is based on comparing the distance between each two swarm members calculated from their GPS coordinates to the distance acquired from Impulse Radio Ultra-Wideband ranging between the same swarm members. If the difference in distances is larger than a chosen threshold the GPS spoofing attack is declared detected.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2301_12766
institution arXiv
publishDate 2023
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle GPS-Spoofing Attack Detection Mechanism for UAV Swarms
Mykytyn, Pavlo
Brzozowski, Marcin
Dyka, Zoya
Langendoerfer, Peter
Cryptography and Security
Recently autonomous and semi-autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms started to receive a lot of research interest and demand from various civil application fields. However, for successful mission execution, UAV swarms require Global navigation satellite system signals and in particular, Global Positioning System (GPS) signals for navigation. Unfortunately, civil GPS signals are unencrypted and unauthenticated, which facilitates the execution of GPS spoofing attacks. During these attacks, adversaries mimic the authentic GPS signal and broadcast it to the targeted UAV in order to change its course, and force it to land or crash. In this study, we propose a GPS spoofing detection mechanism capable of detecting single-transmitter and multi-transmitter GPS spoofing attacks to prevent the outcomes mentioned above. Our detection mechanism is based on comparing the distance between each two swarm members calculated from their GPS coordinates to the distance acquired from Impulse Radio Ultra-Wideband ranging between the same swarm members. If the difference in distances is larger than a chosen threshold the GPS spoofing attack is declared detected.
title GPS-Spoofing Attack Detection Mechanism for UAV Swarms
topic Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.12766