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Auteurs principaux: Blakely, Jonathan N., Pethel, Shawn D., Jacobs, Kurt
Format: Preprint
Publié: 2023
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02656
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author Blakely, Jonathan N.
Pethel, Shawn D.
Jacobs, Kurt
author_facet Blakely, Jonathan N.
Pethel, Shawn D.
Jacobs, Kurt
contents Electromagnetic remote sensing technologies such as radar can be mislead by targets that generate spoof pulses. Typically, a would-be spoofer must make measurements to characterize a received pulse in order to design a convincing spoof pulse. The precision of such measurements are ultimately limited by quantum noise. Here we introduce a model of electromagnetic spoofing that includes effects of practical importance that were neglected in prior theoretical studies. In particular, the model includes thermal background noise and digital quantization noise, as well as loss in transmission, propagation, and reception. We derive the optimal probability of detecting a spoofer allowed by quantum physics. We show that heterodyne reception and thresholding closely approaches this optimal performance. Finally, we show that a high degree of certainty in spoof detection can be reached by Bayesian inference from a sequence of received pulses. Together these results suggest that a practically realizable receiver could plausibly detect a radar spoofer by observing errors in the spoof pulses due to quantum noise.
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spellingShingle Revealing spoofing of classical radar using quantum noise
Blakely, Jonathan N.
Pethel, Shawn D.
Jacobs, Kurt
Quantum Physics
Electromagnetic remote sensing technologies such as radar can be mislead by targets that generate spoof pulses. Typically, a would-be spoofer must make measurements to characterize a received pulse in order to design a convincing spoof pulse. The precision of such measurements are ultimately limited by quantum noise. Here we introduce a model of electromagnetic spoofing that includes effects of practical importance that were neglected in prior theoretical studies. In particular, the model includes thermal background noise and digital quantization noise, as well as loss in transmission, propagation, and reception. We derive the optimal probability of detecting a spoofer allowed by quantum physics. We show that heterodyne reception and thresholding closely approaches this optimal performance. Finally, we show that a high degree of certainty in spoof detection can be reached by Bayesian inference from a sequence of received pulses. Together these results suggest that a practically realizable receiver could plausibly detect a radar spoofer by observing errors in the spoof pulses due to quantum noise.
title Revealing spoofing of classical radar using quantum noise
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02656