{"title":"Optimal Compromise among Security, Availability and Resources in the Design of Sequences for GNSS Spreading Code Authentication","authors":"N. Laurenti, A. Poltronieri","doi":"10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115423","url":null,"abstract":"Spreading code authentication has been proposed as a promising countermeasure against signal layer spoofing attacks to GNSS. It consists in replacing part of the spreading code with a secret, cryptographically generated sequence, that is also provided to legitimate receivers, allowing them to verify the signal authenticity and integrity. Different techniques and formats have been proposed, yet their formulation is typically given as a particular solution, lacking proper generality.This paper aims at providing a unified general model for the design, description, evaluation and comparison of such techniques, introducing simple performance and security metrics, abstracting from the particular cryptographic mechanisms required to generate the sequences. We derive a way to optimize the trade-offs between security level and signal availability to receivers that do not know the modified code, and between security level and required cryptographic resources.We also propose a simpler mechanism that closely approaches the optimal trade-off, and show that it significantly outperforms existing and proposed techniques, especially in the typically considered performance range. Finally, we evaluate the robustness of the proposed schemes to a partial observation of the transmitted modified code by the attacker.","PeriodicalId":123786,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS)","volume":"41 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132015384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Viktoriia Shubina, A. Ometov, S. Andreev, D. Niculescu, E. Lohan
{"title":"Privacy versus Location Accuracy in Opportunistic Wearable Networks","authors":"Viktoriia Shubina, A. Ometov, S. Andreev, D. Niculescu, E. Lohan","doi":"10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115424","url":null,"abstract":"Future wearable devices are expected to increasingly exchange their positioning information with various Location-Based Services (LBSs). Wearable applications can include activity-based health and fitness recommendations, location-based social networking, location-based gamification, among many others. With the growing opportunities for LBSs, it is expected that location privacy concerns will also increase significantly. Particularly, in opportunistic wireless networks based on device-to-device (D2D) connectivity, a user can request a higher level of control over own location privacy, which may result in more flexible permissions granted to wearable devices. This translates into the ability to perform location obfuscation to the desired degree when interacting with other wearables or service providers across the network. In this paper, we argue that specific errors in the disclosed location information feature two components: a measurement error inherent to the localization algorithm used by a wearable device and an intentional (or obfuscation) error that may be based on a trade-off between a particular LBS and a desired location privacy level. This work aims to study the trade-off between positioning accuracy and location information privacy in densely crowded scenarios by introducing two privacy-centric metrics.","PeriodicalId":123786,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129160836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. R. V. D. Merwe, Xabier Zubizarreta, Daniel Rubino, A. Rügamer, W. Felber
{"title":"Position Solution Sensitivity for Snapshot Receivers","authors":"J. R. V. D. Merwe, Xabier Zubizarreta, Daniel Rubino, A. Rügamer, W. Felber","doi":"10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115574","url":null,"abstract":"Sensitivity-analysis of a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver presents the limit of operation for a given scenario. It allows us to characterize its performance in harsh conditions and to sets design constraints. This paper presents a model for the full system sensitivity for a GNSS snapshot-based receiver. The probability of a successful position, velocity, and time (PVT) solution is modeled based on the acquisition statistics and knowledge of the satellite constellation. A laboratory set-up using Galileo E1B/C signals verifies the model with a snapshot processor. The model determines the theoretical sensitivity of a snapshot receiver allowing, e.g., the ideal snapshot length determination for a given scenario and application.","PeriodicalId":123786,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125309229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Ortega, J. Vilà‐Valls, É. Chaumette, F. Vincent
{"title":"On the Time-Delay Estimation Performance Limit of New GNSS Acquisition Codes","authors":"L. Ortega, J. Vilà‐Valls, É. Chaumette, F. Vincent","doi":"10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115552","url":null,"abstract":"In previous works, new families of Pseudo-Random Noise (PRN) codes of length 1023 chips were proposed in order to ease the acquisition engine. These studies analyzed several metrics for code design in order to improve the acquisition but no analysis was conducted on the estimation performance, which in turn drives the final position, velocity and timing estimates. The main goal of this contribution is to assess if these new PRN codes designed to improve the acquisition engine lose in achievable time-delay estimation performance with respect to the standard GPS L1 C/A Gold codes. The analysis is performed by resorting to a new compact closed-form Cramér-Rao bound expression for time-delay estimation which only depends on the signal samples. In addition, the corresponding time-delay maximum likelihood estimate is also provided to assess the minimum signal-to-noise ratio that allows to be in optimal receiver operation. GNSS, time-delay estimation, band-limited signals, Cramér-Rao bound, signal acquistion.","PeriodicalId":123786,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125213538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tight Integration of GNSS and WSN Ranging based on Spatial Map Data Enhancing Localization in Urban Environments","authors":"Paul Schwarzbach, Albrecht Michler, O. Michler","doi":"10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115519","url":null,"abstract":"Highly precise localization is a necessary precondition for safety-critical applications and location based services in land navigation. Low-cost GNSS receivers are often used in a vehicular context as they provide a reasonable trade-off between affordability and accuracy. Especially in dense urban environments shadowing or Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) reception of GNSS signals can occur, degrading availability and positioning accuracy. In order to still meet given performance requirements, GNSS positioning is usually assisted by correction data or multisensor data fusion. Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) provide an interconnection between vehicles and infrastructure, whose radio propagation properties can furthermore be exploited as local transponder based augmentation systems. Depending on the types of provided information, different data fusion levels can be selected. In this paper, we provide a tight integration of GNSS pseudoranges and RF augmentation systems based on spatial map data given as a digital elevation model. The proposed method is evaluated using a dynamic simulation scenario analyzing previously surveyed as well as synthetically created heavy-tailed measurement error distributions.","PeriodicalId":123786,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS)","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133348084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the performance of selected ionospheric modelling schemes in Precise Point Positioning","authors":"J. Paziewski, R. Sieradzki","doi":"10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115506","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most frequently investigated methods of position determination with GNSS is Precise Point Positioning — an absolute method which provides a solution with the accuracy close or even, under specific conditions, equal to relative mode. Initially the method took advantage of the ionosphere-free linear combination of dual-frequency GPS phase and code signals to overcome the negative impact of the ionospheric delay. However, recent progress led to the introduction of novel observational models based on uncombined signals. This paper investigates both of these commonly used models of PPP which importantly diverge from the methodology of ionospheric delay handling. The results have shown that the models may provide equivalent results, hence the common presumption that ionosphere-free linear combination provides noisier and slower converging solution is not justified.","PeriodicalId":123786,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116008808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analog Mitigation of Frequency-Modulated Interference for Improved GNSS Reception","authors":"Karel Pärlin, T. Riihonen","doi":"10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115518","url":null,"abstract":"Powerful in-band interference can saturate a receiver's front-end and limit the usefulness of digital interference suppression methods that are bounded by the receiver's limited dynamic range. This is especially true for the self-interference (SI) encountered in full-duplex (FD) radios, but also in the case of strong interference between co-located radios. However, unlike in FD radios, receivers co-located with interference sources do not typically have direct access to the transmitted interference. This work analyzes the performance of a digitally-assisted analog interference mitigation method and its implementation for the suppression of frequency-modulated (FM) interference before quantization in global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers that are co-located with interference sources. Over-the-air measurement results are presented that illustrate the effects of interference mitigation on GPS L1 and Galileo E1 reception in a commercial off-the-shelf GNSS receiver and a software-defined GNSS receiver. The analysis covers the effects of the interference mitigation on the radio frequency (RF) front-end, acquisition, tracking, and positioning stages.","PeriodicalId":123786,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS)","volume":"141 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127325871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sylvia Holcer, J. Torres-Sospedra, Michael Gould, I. Remolar
{"title":"Privacy in Indoor Positioning Systems: A Systematic Review","authors":"Sylvia Holcer, J. Torres-Sospedra, Michael Gould, I. Remolar","doi":"10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115496","url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes a systematic review of privacy in indoor positioning systems. The selected 41 articles on location privacy preserving mechanisms employ non-inherently private methods such as encryption, k-anonymity, and differential privacy. The 15 identified mechanisms are categorized and summarized by where they are processed: on device, during transmission, or at a server. Trade-offs such as calculation speed, granularity, or complexity in set-up are identified for each mechanism. In 40% of the papers, some trade-offs are minimized by combining several methods into a hybrid solution. The combinations of mechanisms and their levels of offered privacy are suggested based on estimated user mobility cases.","PeriodicalId":123786,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133846364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Garzia, J. R. V. D. Merwe, A. Rügamer, W. Felber
{"title":"Hardware Implementation and Evaluation of the HDDM","authors":"F. Garzia, J. R. V. D. Merwe, A. Rügamer, W. Felber","doi":"10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115507","url":null,"abstract":"Interferences can significantly degrade the performance of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers. Therefore, mitigation methods are required to ensure reliable operations. However, as there are different types of interferences, robust, multi-purpose mitigation algorithms are needed. The high-rate DFT-based data manipulator (HDDM) algorithm is a promising mitigation method, but so far has only been evaluated in theory and software. This paper presents a hardware implementation of the HDDM algorithm and its evaluation in an exemplary hardware configuration with comparison to the interference mitigation of a high-end professional receiver. Results with interferences achieve the same or improved performance. With more complex interferences, like frequency hopping or pulsed, the HDDM shows even better performance than state of the art.","PeriodicalId":123786,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125132504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iñigo Cortés, Jon Ander Iñiguez de Gordoa, J. R. V. D. Merwe, A. Rügamer, W. Felber
{"title":"Performance and Complexity Comparison of Adaptive Loop-Bandwidth Tracking Techniques","authors":"Iñigo Cortés, Jon Ander Iñiguez de Gordoa, J. R. V. D. Merwe, A. Rügamer, W. Felber","doi":"10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115543","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyzes the performance and complexity of state-of-the-art adaptive scalar tracking techniques used in modern digital global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers. Ideally, a tracking channel should be able to adjust to both noisy and dynamic environments for optimal performance. Precision and robustness define the performance of the tracking. The difference between the square root of the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) and the average tracking jitter at the discriminator’s output determines the precision of the tracking, whereas the speed of the response specifies the robustness of the tracking in high dynamic scenarios. The amount of operations required to implement a robust tracking technique indicates the complexity of the algorithm. The fast adaptive bandwidth, the fuzzy logic, and the loop-bandwidth control algorithm adaptive tracking techniques are first analyzed and evaluated in a software receiver. Second, these techniques are implemented in an open software interface GNSS hardware receiver for testing in simulated scenarios with real-world conditions. The scenarios represent different dynamics and noise cases. The results show the loop-bandwidth control algorithm’s advantage over adaptive loop-bandwidth techniques while preserving good tracking performance and low complexity.","PeriodicalId":123786,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS)","volume":"135 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121124992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}