Objective
Our world increasingly relies on positioning/navigation systems. So far, work in secure positioning focused on enhancing Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) with physical-layer secret spreading codes and on enhancing GNSS authentication (e.g. Galileo OS-NMA). However, these enhancements fail to scale and/or fully secure GNSS, which, with raising sovereignty concerns motivated calls for new positioning infrastructures. Examples include the European Space Agency’s call for new LEO-based positioning systems, and France/UK call for a new jamming-resilient terrestrial infrastructure and several commercial efforts. How these emerging wide-area positioning system should be designed to be secure and how secure are these initial proposals is an open research question. Securing positioning systems requires physical, MAC, ranging (distance bounding) and positioning protocols robust to manipulations and interference. Since these new wide-range systems will be able to leverage bi-directional communication and have higher density they will also raise some new privacy, scheduling, key management and other challenges. In turn, they will provide an opportunity to implement location verification which GNSS inherently lacks. Their physical layer will need to be different from GNSS that is built for broadcast positioning (e.g. no contention), and from Ultra-Wide-Band secure ranging, which, due to its wide bandwidth and interference is fundamentally unsuitable for wide-area use.
In this project I therefore want to develop the foundations of secure wide-area positioning. If successful, this project will result in a deeper understanding of this cross-layer design space and in innovative designs that will allow the construction and deployment of spoofing-resilient, privacy-preserving and interference-resilient wide-area positioning systems. The potential impact of this work is broad - the developed techniques will be of interest for satellite, terrestrial, distributed systems.
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- social sciences social geography transport navigation systems satellite navigation system global navigation satellite system
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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8092 Zuerich
Switzerland
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