High we Fly: Wireless Witnessing and Crowdsourcing for Air-Traffic Communication Security

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Abstract

In this talk I will address aviation security and secure surveillance/control that are crucial for the safety of air traffic. Two wireless systems widely deployed in this context are the Global Positioning System (GPS) and ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast). I will discuss why wireless systems like GPS and ADS-B are hard to fully secure and I will present novel mechanisms to improve air-Traffic-related security at the intersection of these two systems. In particular, I will talk about (1) Crowd-GPS-Sec, a system to detect and localize GPS spoofing attacks on moving airborne targets such as UAVs or commercial airliners, as well as (2) ADS-B-Trust, an approach to leverage machine learning for ADS-B and GPS attack detection. These systems demonstrate the potential of sensor-based crowdsourcing and wireless witnessing for attack detection purposes in a typically rather closed industry sector.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationCPSS 2021 - Proceedings of the 7th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages3-4
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781450384025
DOIs
StatePublished - May 24 2021
Event7th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop, CPSS 2021, co-located with ACM AsiaCCS 2021 - Virtual, Online, Hong Kong
Duration: Jun 7 2021 → …

Publication series

NameCPSS 2021 - Proceedings of the 7th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop

Conference

Conference7th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop, CPSS 2021, co-located with ACM AsiaCCS 2021
Country/TerritoryHong Kong
CityVirtual, Online
Period6/7/21 → …

Keywords

  • ADS-B
  • GPS
  • aviation security
  • wireless system security

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Software

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