GNSS Spoofing Detection Using Moving Variance of Signal Quality Monitoring Metrics and Signal Power

Spoofing represents a significant threat to the integrity of applications relying on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). A spoofer transmits counterfeit satellite signals to deceive the operation of a receiver. As multipath and spoofing signals have similar signal structures, Signal Quality Monitoring (SQM) techniques, originally designed for multipath detection, were identified to be useful for spoofing detection. Recently, a moving variance (MV) based SQM method was developed to improve the performance of raw SQM metrics. However, the main problem with implementing the MV-based SQM technique is differentiating the spoofing attack from multipath. This work presents a two-dimensional detection method using carrier power and moving variance to improve detection performance. Besides, false alarms caused by multipath are avoided by the two-dimensional threshold. A dataset called Texas Spoofing Test Battery and a multipath scenario from Osaka were employed to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm.

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