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Lessons Learned in ATCO2: 5000 hours of Air Traffic Control Communications for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding
Juan Zuluaga-Gomez, Iuliia Nigmatulina, Amrutha Prasad +8
Voice communication between air traffic controllers (ATCos) and pilots is critical for ensuring safe and efficient air traffic control (ATC). This task requires high levels of awar…
FABRID: Flexible Attestation-Based Routing for Inter-Domain Networks
Cyrill Krähenbühl, Marc Wyss, David Basin +3
In its current state, the Internet does not provide end users with transparency and control regarding on-path forwarding devices. In particular, the lack of network device informat…
Improving Aircraft Localization: Experiences and Lessons Learned from an Open Competition
Martin Strohmeier, Mauro Leonardi, Sergei Markochev +3
Knowledge about the exact positioning of aircraft is crucial in many settings. Consequently, the opportunistic and independent localization of aircraft based on their communication…
5G System Security Analysis
Gerrit Holtrup, William Lacube, Dimitri Percia David +3
Fifth generation mobile networks (5G) are currently being deployed by mobile operators around the globe. 5G acts as an enabler for various use cases and also improves the security…
Blockchain in Cyberdefence: A Technology Review from a Swiss Perspective
Luca Gambazzi, Patrick Schaller, Alain Mermoud +1
Since the advent of bitcoin in 2008, the concept of a blockchain has widely spread. Besides crypto currencies and trading activities, there is a wide range of potential application…
LocaRDS: A Localization Reference Data Set
Matthias Schäfer, Martin Strohmeier, Mauro Leonardi +1
The use of wireless signals for purposes of localization enables a host of applications relating to the determination and verification of the positions of network participants, ran…
Understanding Realistic Attacks on Airborne Collision Avoidance Systems
Matthew Smith, Martin Strohmeier, Vincent Lenders +1
Airborne collision avoidance systems provide an onboard safety net should normal air traffic control procedures fail to keep aircraft separated. These systems are widely deployed a…
Contact Tracing: An Overview of Technologies and Cyber Risks
Franck Legendre, Mathias Humbert, Alain Mermoud +1
The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic has led to a global lockdown with severe health and economical consequences. As a result, authorities around the globe have expressed their needs for bet…
QPEP: A QUIC-Based Approach to Encrypted Performance Enhancing Proxies for High-Latency Satellite Broadband
James Pavur, Martin Strohmeier, Vincent Lenders +1
Satellite broadband services are critical infrastructures enabling advanced technologies to function in the most remote regions of the globe. However, status-quo services are often…
Classi-Fly: Inferring Aircraft Categories from Open Data using Machine Learning
Martin Strohmeier, Matthew Smith, Vincent Lenders +1
In recent years, air traffic communication data has become easy to access, enabling novel research in many fields. Exploiting this new data source, a wide range of applications hav…
Safety vs. Security: Attacking Avionic Systems with Humans in the Loop
Matthew Smith, Martin Strohmeier, Jon Harman +2
Many wireless communications systems found in aircraft lack standard security mechanisms, leaving them fundamentally vulnerable to attack. With affordable software-defined radios a…
Crowdsourced wireless spectrum anomaly detection
Sreeraj Rajendran, Vincent Lenders, Wannes Meert +1
Automated wireless spectrum monitoring across frequency, time and space will be essential for many future applications. Manual and fine-grained spectrum analysis is becoming imposs…
Electrosense+: Crowdsourcing Radio Spectrum Decoding using IoT Receivers
Roberto Calvo-Palomino, Héctor Cordobés, Markus Engel +9
Web spectrum monitoring systems based on crowdsourcing have recently gained popularity. These systems are however limited to applications of interest for governamental organization…
SAIFE: Unsupervised Wireless Spectrum Anomaly Detection with Interpretable Features
Sreeraj Rajendran, Wannes Meert, Vincent Lenders +1
Detecting anomalous behavior in wireless spectrum is a demanding task due to the sheer complexity of the electromagnetic spectrum use. Wireless spectrum anomalies can take a wide r…
Nanosecond-precision Time-of-Arrival Estimation for Aircraft Signals with low-cost SDR Receivers
Roberto Calvo-Palomino, Fabio Ricciato, Blaz Repas +2
Precise Time-of-Arrival (TOA) estimations of aircraft and drone signals are important for a wide set of applications including aircraft/drone tracking, air traffic data verificatio…
Distributed Deep Learning Models for Wireless Signal Classification with Low-Cost Spectrum Sensors
Sreeraj Rajendran, Wannes Meert, Domenico Giustiniano +2
This paper looks into the technology classification problem for a distributed wireless spectrum sensing network. First, a new data-driven model for Automatic Modulation Classificat…
Analyzing Privacy Breaches in the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS)
Matthew Smith, Daniel Moser, Martin Strohmeier +2
The manner in which Aircraft Communications, Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) is being used has significantly changed over time. Whilst originally used by commercial airline…
Electrosense: Open and Big Spectrum Data
Sreeraj Rajendran, Roberto Calvo-Palomino, Markus Fuchs +5
While the radio spectrum allocation is well regulated, there is little knowledge about its actual utilization over time and space. This limitation hinders taking effective actions…
A Localization Approach for Crowdsourced Air Traffic Communication Networks
Martin Strohmeier, Vincent Lenders, Ivan Martinovic
In this work, we argue that current state-of-the-art methods of aircraft localization such as multilateration are insufficient, in particular for modern crowdsourced air traffic ne…
On Perception and Reality in Wireless Air Traffic Communications Security
Martin Strohmeier, Matthias Schäfer, Rui Pinheiro +2
More than a dozen wireless technologies are used by air traffic communication systems during different flight phases. From a conceptual perspective, all of them are insecure as sec…
An Analytical Model of Packet Collisions in IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Networks
Matthias Wilhelm, Vincent Lenders, Jens B. Schmitt
Numerous studies showed that concurrent transmissions can boost wireless network performance despite collisions. While these works provide empirical evidence that concurrent transm…
On the Security of the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast Protocol
Martin Strohmeier, Vincent Lenders, Ivan Martinovic
Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) is the communications protocol currently being rolled out as part of next generation air transportation systems. As the heart of…
Air Dominance in Sensor Networks: Guarding Sensor Motes using Selective Interference
Matthias Wilhelm, Ivan Martinovic, Jens B. Schmitt +1
Securing wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a hard problem. In particular, network access control is notoriously difficult to achieve due to the inherent broadcast characteristics…