Airborne GNSS-Receiver Threat Detection in No-Fading Environments

Abstract

Jamming and spoofing detection of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) is of great importance. Civil and military aerial platforms use GNSS as main navigation systems and these systems are main target of threat attacks. In this paper a simple method based on different empirical probability density functions of successive received signal powers and goodness of fit technique is proposed for airborne platforms such as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), in no fading environment. The two different paths between UAV-satellite and UAV-threat, experience different empirical probability density functions which can be used to distinguish between authentic and threat signals. Simulation results including detection and false alarm probabilities show good performance of proposed method as well as low computational burden.

Keywords

detection / global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) / jamming / spoofing / unmanned aerial vehicle