Wireless jamming has been a long-standing issue both in critical infrastructure research and real-world applications, with particular importance in systems that deal with long communication distances and low received signal strength. Air traffic control is one such system, experiencing a rising number of reports of outside interference with the underlying wireless technologies. In this article, we discuss the particular issue of malicious wireless jamming on crowdsourced networks of low-cost ADS–B receivers, which increasingly support modern air traffic management. Using both simulation and laboratory trials, we first show the practical impact of reduced reception and coverage of typical receivers in a crowdsourced sensor network. Following this, we investigate network-wide countermeasures based on redundant coverage, which can defend at most 50.74% of the evaluated real-world network. To improve jamming resilience in nonredundant areas, we analyze and implement a low-cost multichannel receiver and show that it can effectively recover up to 50% of the messages even under heavy jamming conditions.


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    Title :

    On Jamming Attacks in Crowdsourced Air Traffic Surveillance


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    Publication date :

    2021-06-01


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    1354707 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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