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The operation of critical infrastructures such as the electrical power grid, cellphone towers, and financial institutions relies on precise timing provided by stationary GPS receivers. These GPS devices are vulnerable to a type of spoofing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Junhwan Lee , Ahmad F. Taha , Nikolaos Gatsis , David Akopian

The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is increasingly vulnerable to radio frequency interference (RFI), including jamming and spoofing, which threaten the integrity of navigation and timing services. This paper presents a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Argyris Kriezis , Yu-Hsuan Chen , Dennis Akos , Sherman Lo , Todd Walter

Accurate asset localization holds paramount importance across various industries, ranging from transportation management to search and rescue operations. In scenarios where traditional positioning equations cannot be adequately solved due…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Alejandro Gonzalez-Garrido , Jorge Querol , Henk Wymeersch , Symeon Chatzinotas

This paper presents a terrestrial localization system based on 5G infrastructure as a viable alternative to GNSS, particularly in scenarios where GNSS signals are obstructed or unavailable. It discusses network planning aimed at enabling…

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) provide the backbone of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) but remain vulnerable to interference. Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations within Fifth-Generation (5G) Non-Terrestrial Networks…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Idir Edjekouane , Alejandro González Garrido , Jorge Querol , Symeon Chatzinotas

This paper considers the localization problem in a 5G-aided global navigation satellite system (GNSS) based on real-time kinematic (RTK) technique. Specifically, the user's position is estimated based on the hybrid measurements, including…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-24 Pinjun Zheng , Xing Liu , Tarig Ballal , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

In a spoofing attack, an attacker impersonates a legitimate user to access or modify data belonging to the latter. Typical approaches for spoofing detection in the physical layer declare an attack when a change is observed in certain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-18 Daniel Romero , Tien Ngoc Ha , Peter Gerstoft

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) provide precise location, while Real Time Kinematics (RTK) allow mobile receivers (termed rovers), leveraging fixed stations, to correct errors in their Position Navigation and Timing (PNT)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Marco Spanghero , Panos Papadimitratos

Emerging 5G millimeter-wave and sub-6 GHz networks enable high-accuracy indoor localization, but security and privacy vulnerabilities pose serious challenges. In this paper, we identify and address threats including location spoofing and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Ildi Alla , Valeria Loscri

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are fundamental in ubiquitously providing position and time to a wide gamut of systems. Jamming remains a realistic threat in many deployment settings, civilian and tactical. Specifically, in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-27 Marco Spanghero , Filip Geib , Ronny Panier , Panos Papadimitratos

We develop a new location spoofing detection algorithm for geo-spatial tagging and location-based services in the Internet of Things (IoT), called Enhanced Location Spoofing Detection using Audibility (ELSA) which can be implemented at the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Jing Yang Koh , Ido Nevat , Derek Leong , Wai-Choong Wong

The increasing virtualization of fifth generation (5G) networks expands the attack surface of the user plane, making spoofing a persistent threat to slice integrity and service reliability. This study presents a slice-aware lightweight…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Daniyal Ganiuly , Nurzhau Bolatbek

As location-based applications become ubiquitous in emerging wireless networks, Location Verification Systems (LVS) are of growing importance. In this paper we propose, for the first time, a rigorous information-theoretic framework for an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Shihao Yan , Robert Malaney , Ido Nevat , Gareth W. Peters

Global Navigation Satellite Systems enable precise localization and timing even for highly mobile devices, but legacy implementations provide only limited support for the new generation of security-enhanced signals. Inertial Measurement…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Tore Johansson , Marco Spanghero , Panos Papadimitratos

Autonomous robots relying on radio frequency (RF)-based localization such as global navigation satellite system (GNSS), ultra-wide band (UWB), and 5G integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) are vulnerable to spoofing and sensor…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-27 Peter Iwer Hoedt Karstensen , Roberto Galeazzi

It is well known that GNSS receivers are vulnerable to jamming and spoofing attacks, and numerous such incidents have been reported in the last decade all over the world. The notion of participatory sensing, or crowdsensing, is that a large…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-04 Glädje Karl Olsson , Sara Nilsson , Erik Axell , Erik G. Larsson , Panos Papadimitratos

Location information is critical to a wide-variety of navigation and tracking applications. Today, GPS is the de-facto outdoor localization system but has been shown to be vulnerable to signal spoofing attacks. Inertial Navigation Systems…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Sashank Narain , Aanjhan Ranganathan , Guevara Noubir

In fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks, users feed back to the base station the index of the precoder (from a codebook) to be used for downlink transmission. The precoder is strongly related to the user channel and in turn to the user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Stefan Roth , Stefano Tomasin , Marco Maso , Aydin Sezgin

As autonomous vehicles become an essential component of modern transportation, they are increasingly vulnerable to threats such as GPS spoofing attacks. This study presents an adaptive detection approach utilizing a dynamically tuned…

Autonomous vehicles rely on LiDAR sensors to detect obstacles such as pedestrians, other vehicles, and fixed infrastructures. LiDAR spoofing attacks have been demonstrated that either create erroneous obstacles or prevent detection of real…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-16 Hongchao Zhang , Zhouchi Li , Shiyu Cheng , Andrew Clark