Title
Crowd-GPS-Sec: Leveraging Crowdsourcing to Detect and Localize GPS Spoofing Attacks
Abstract
The aviation industry's increasing reliance on GPS to facilitate navigation and air traffic monitoring opens new attack vectors with the purpose of hijacking UAVs or interfering with air safety. We propose Crowd-GPS-Sec to detect and localize GPS spoofing attacks on moving airborne targets such as UAVs or commercial airliners. Unlike previous attempts to secure GPS, Crowd-GPS-Sec neither requires any updates of the GPS infrastructure nor of the airborne GPS receivers, which are both unlikely to happen in the near future. In contrast, Crowd-GPS-Sec leverages crowdsourcing to monitor the air traffic from GPS-derived position advertisements that aircraft periodically broadcast for air traffic control purposes. Spoofing attacks are detected and localized by an independent infrastructure on the ground which continuously analyzes the contents and the times of arrival of these advertisements. We evaluate our system with real-world data from a crowdsourced air traffic monitoring sensor network and by simulations. We show that Crowd-GPS-Sec is able to globally detect GPS spoofing attacks in less than two seconds and to localize the attacker up to an accuracy of 150 meters after 15 minutes of monitoring time.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/SP.2018.00012
2018 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)
Keywords
Field
DocType
GPS,ADS B,Spoofing Detection,Spoofer Localization,Localization Security
Broadcasting,Spoofing attack,Computer science,Crowdsourcing,Computer security,Air traffic control,Transponder,Aviation,Global Positioning System,Wireless sensor network
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1081-6011
978-1-5386-4354-9
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.45
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kai Jansen1133.40
Matthias Schäfer211416.20
Daniel Moser3193.45
Vincent Lenders473772.53
Christina Pöpper547633.27
Jens B. Schmitt669166.31