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

32 citations · 38 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.NI2025

Secure and Scalable Rerouting in LEO Satellite Networks

Lyubomir Yanev, Pietro Ronchetti, Joshua Smailes +1

Resilient routing in large-scale Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks remains a key challenge due to frequent and unpredictable link and node failures, potentially in response…

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…

eess.SP2025★ 2 cited

OrbID: Identifying Orbcomm Satellite RF Fingerprints

Cédric Solenthaler, Joshua Smailes, Martin Strohmeier

An increase in availability of Software Defined Radios (SDRs) has caused a dramatic shift in the threat landscape of legacy satellite systems, opening them up to easy spoofing atta…

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…