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This paper considers a GPS spoofing detection problem. A GPS spoofing attack attempts to deceive a GPS receiver by broadcasting counterfeit GPS signals. GPS spoofing attacks are very significant since spoofing amounts to intentional interference and the target receiver is not aware of its being attacked by GPS spoofers. We suppose that accelerometers can be used to detect the GPS spoofing signal by comparing the accelerometer outputs with the acceleration estimated from the GPS outputs. In this paper, we analyze the performance based on the probability of detection for the K-consecutive alarm method, as well as the modified Tong and modified M of N methods. The performance of the GPS spoofing detection algorithm is analyzed for two cases: a fixed threshold and a fixed probability of false alarm.
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This research was a part of the project titled “Development of Wide Area Differential GNSS” funded by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, Korea. It was also supported by the Chung-Ang University Research Scholarship Grants in 2013.
Jung-Hoon Lee received his B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from Dan- Kook University, Korea in 2013. He is currently a master student at Chung-Ang University, Korea. His research interests include GNSS and control.
Keum-Cheol Kwon received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Chung-Ang University, Korea, in 2001 and 2003, respectively. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the same school. His research interests include computer architecture, embedded systems, and GNSS.
Dae-Sung An received his B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Chung-Ang University, Korea in 2014. He is currently a master student at the same school. His research interests include GNSS and control.
Duk-Sun Shim received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Department of Control and Instrumentation Engineering in Seoul National University, Korea, in 1984 and 1986, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, in 1993. He served at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the University of Michigan as a postdoc from January 1994 to January 1995. Since March 1995, he has been with the School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea, where he is currently a Professor. He served as an Editor for JEET (Journal of Electrical and Engineering & Technology) between 2009 and 2011, and has served as an Editor for IJCAS (International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems) since 2014. His research interests include robust control, robot SLAM, GNSS and inertial navigation systems, fault detection and isolation, and computer vision.
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Lee, JH., Kwon, KC., An, DS. et al. GPS spoofing detection using accelerometers and performance analysis with probability of detection. Int. J. Control Autom. Syst. 13, 951–959 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12555-014-0347-2
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