Trusted Positioning with Two-Way Ranging

Flight (ToF) based indoor positioning systems is introduced. The new concept can be applied to all ToF based positioning system which use two-way ranging (TWR). We show that TWR exposes an inherent vulnerability which allows attackers to spoof arbitrary positions. It is described how such a spoofing attack works and how this can be detected. Finally we outline how to estimate the spoofing error.

Trusted Positioning with Two-Way Ranging

2016 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN)

Authors: Marcel Wagner and Maximilian Tschirschnitz
Year/month: 2016/
Booktitle: 2016 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN)
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Abstract

Flight (ToF) based indoor positioning systems is introduced. The new concept can be applied to all ToF based positioning system which use two-way ranging (TWR). We show that TWR exposes an inherent vulnerability which allows attackers to spoof arbitrary positions. It is described how such a spoofing attack works and how this can be detected. Finally we outline how to estimate the spoofing error.

Bibtex:

@inproceedings {
author = { Marcel Wagner and Maximilian Tschirschnitz},
title = { Trusted Positioning with Two-Way Ranging },
year = { 2016 },
booktitle = { 2016 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN) },
url = { http://www3.uah.es/ipin2016/usb/app/descargas/210_WIP.pdf },

}