Signal quality monitoring-based spoofing detection method for Global Navigation Satellite System vector tracking structure

摘要

The vector tracking structure is receiving growing attention due to its better tracking performance than the traditional scalar tracking structure. For the scalar tracking structure, signal quality monitoring (SQM) methods can effectively detect spoofing attacks based on the influence of correlation peaks overlap on the coherent integration results. However, the methods are invalid when the overlap is inexistent. While for the vector tracking structure, the authors find that because of the combined tracking of all received signals, the coherent integration results are affected by spoofing attacks regardless of whether the overlap exists. It implies that SQM techniques have a wider application range for the vector tracking structure. To this end, an SQM-based spoofing detection method for the vector tracking structure is proposed in this study. Analysis and simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method is useful even in the spoofing scenarios where the correlation peaks do not overlap. And it can detect spoofing attacks on both pseudo-code and carrier Doppler by using the existing observations in the tracking process, which is highly practical for the vector tracking structure.