An autonomous GNSS anti-spoofing technique

In recent years, the problem of Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT) resiliency has received significant attention due to an increasing awareness on threats and the vulnerability of the current GNSS signals. Several proposed solutions make uses of cryptography to protect against spoofing. A limitation of cryptographic techniques is that they introduce a communication and processing computation overhead and may impact the performance in terms of availability and continuity for GNSS users. This paper introduces autonomous non cryptographic antispoofing mechanisms, that exploit semi-codeless receiver techniques to detect spoofing for signals with a component making use of spreading code encryption.

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