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most citedWatch This Space: Securing Satellite Communication through Resilient Transmitter Fingerprinting

32 citations · 40 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.CR2025

VET Your Agent: Towards Host-Independent Autonomy via Verifiable Execution Traces

Artem Grigor, Christian Schroeder de Witt, Simon Birnbach +1

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled a new generation of autonomous agents that operate over sustained periods and manage sensitive resources on behalf of u…

cs.NI2025

DSNS: The Deep Space Network Simulator

Joshua Smailes, Filip Futera, Sebastian Köhler +3

Simulation tools are commonly used in the development and testing of new protocols or new networks. However, as satellite networks start to grow to encompass thousands of nodes, an…

cs.CR2025

SATversary: Adversarial Attacks and Defenses for Satellite Fingerprinting

Joshua Smailes, Sebastian Köhler, Simon Birnbach +2

Due to the increasing threat of attacks on satellite systems, novel countermeasures have been developed to provide additional security. Among these, there has been a particular int…

cs.CR2024

KeySpace: Enhancing Public Key Infrastructure for Interplanetary Networks

Joshua Smailes, Filip Futera, Sebastian Köhler +3

As the use of satellites continues to grow, new networking paradigms are emerging to support the scale and long distance communication inherent to these networks. In particular, in…

cs.CR2024★ 3 cited

Sticky Fingers: Resilience of Satellite Fingerprinting against Jamming Attacks

Joshua Smailes, Edd Salkield, Sebastian Köhler +3

In the wake of increasing numbers of attacks on radio communication systems, a range of techniques are being deployed to increase the security of these systems. One such technique…

cs.CR2023

POSTER: spaceQUIC: Securing Communication in Computationally Constrained Spacecraft

Joshua Smailes, Razvan David, Sebastian Kohler +2

Recent years have seen a rapid increase in the number of CubeSats and other small satellites in orbit - these have highly constrained computational and communication resources, but…

cs.CR2023★ 32 cited

Watch This Space: Securing Satellite Communication through Resilient Transmitter Fingerprinting

Joshua Smailes, Sebastian Köhler, Simon Birnbach +2

Due to an increase in the availability of cheap off-the-shelf radio hardware, spoofing and replay attacks on satellite ground systems have become more accessible than ever. This is…

cs.CR2023★ 1 cited

Dishing Out DoS: How to Disable and Secure the Starlink User Terminal

Joshua Smailes, Edd Salkield, Sebastian Köhler +2

Satellite user terminals are a promising target for adversaries seeking to target satellite communication networks. Despite this, many protections commonly found in terrestrial rou…

cs.CR2022★ 2 cited

RingAuth: Wearable Authentication using a Smart Ring

Jack Sturgess, Simon Birnbach, Simon Eberz +1

In this paper, we show that by using inertial sensor data generated by a smart ring, worn on the finger, the user can be authenticated when making mobile payments or when knocking…

cs.CR2022★ 2 cited

RADAR: A TTP-based Extensible, Explainable, and Effective System for Network Traffic Analysis and Malware Detection

Yashovardhan Sharma, Simon Birnbach, Ivan Martinovic

Network analysis and machine learning techniques have been widely applied for building malware detection systems. Though these systems attain impressive results, they often are $(i…

cs.CR2022

BeeHIVE: Behavioral Biometric System based on Object Interactions in Smart Environments

Klaudia Krawiecka, Simon Birnbach, Simon Eberz +1

The lack of standard input interfaces in the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems presents a challenge in securing such infrastructures. To tackle this challenge, we introduce a nov…

cs.CV2021

They See Me Rollin': Inherent Vulnerability of the Rolling Shutter in CMOS Image Sensors

Sebastian Köhler, Giulio Lovisotto, Simon Birnbach +2

In this paper, we describe how the electronic rolling shutter in CMOS image sensors can be exploited using a bright, modulated light source (e.g., an inexpensive, off-the-shelf las…