Secure Positioning (Localization)
Positioning services are typically used for navigation and tracking. In a navigation scenario, an infrastructure (e.g., GPS) typically broadcasts signals that a device uses to compute its location. In a tracking scenario, it is often the device that transmits beacon messages to allow the infrastructure to compute its location e.g., using Time-Difference-of-Arrival (TDoA). Future is expected to be dominated by mobile systems, autonomous systems, robots and cyber-physical systems that will heavily rely on relative and absolute position information. Their use in security and safety critical applications mandates that the distance and position information that they calculate cannot be influenced by the attackers, as well as that compromised systems cannot influence the measurements of their own positions. We therefore need a new approach to the design of positioning systems that takes security requirements into account from the very start, and also accounts for the way that positioning systems are built and used. In this project, we address fundamental questions related to building secure positioning infrastructure.
Related Publications:
Daniel Moser, Patrick Leu, Vincent Lenders, Aanjhan Ranganathan, Fabio Ricciato and Srdjan Capkun
Investigation of Multi-device Location Spoofing Attacks on Air Traffic Control and Possible Countermeasures
22nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), 2016 [PDF (PDF, 756 KB)]
Der-Yeuan Yu, Aanjhan Ranganathan, Ramya Jayaram Masti, Claudio Soriente and Srdjan Capkun
SALVE: Server Authentication with Location VErification
22nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), 2016 [PDF]
Cas Cremers, Kasper Bonne Rasmussen, Benedikt Schmidt, Srdjan Capkun
Distance Hijacking Attacks on Distance Bounding Protocols
in Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2012
Srdjan Capkun, Karim El Defrawy, Gene Tsudik
Group Distance Bounding Protocols (short paper)
In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Trust and Trustworthy Computing (TRUST), 2011
Related technical report: [PDF (PDF, 1.1 MB)]
Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Kasper Bonne Rasmussen, Christina Pöpper, Srdjan Capkun
Attacks on Public WLAN-based Positioning Systems
In Proceedings of the ACM/Usenix International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys), 2009 [PDF (PDF, 1.7 MB) | talk video (FLV, 128 MB)]
Kasper Bonne Rasmussen, Srdjan Capkun
Location Privacy of Distance Bounding Protocols
In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2008. [PDF (PDF, 309 KB)]
Srdjan Capkun, Kasper Bonne Rasmussen, Mario Cagalj and Mani Srivastava
Secure Location Verification With Hidden and Mobile Base Stations
in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), April 2008 [PDF (PDF, 1.9 MB)]
Kasper Bonne Rasmussen, Srdjan Capkun, Mario Cagalj
SecNav: Secure Broadcast Localization and Time Synchronization in Wireless Networks (extended abstract),
in Proceedings of ACM MobiCom 2007 [PDF (PDF, 664 KB)]
Book chapters in Secure Localization and Time Synchronization for Wireless Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks,
Poovendran, Wang, Roy (ed.), Advances in Information Security series, Vol. 30, Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-0-387-32721-1 [book contents (PDF, 40 KB)]
Srdjan Capkun, Saurabh Ganeriwal, Farooq Anjum and Mani Srivastava,
Secure RSS-based Localization in Sensor Networks,
Technical Reports 529, ETH Zürich, 09 2006. [PDF (PDF, 151 KB)]
S.Capkun, M. Cagalj, M. Srivastava,
Securing Localization With Hidden and Mobile Base Stations,
in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2006 [PDF (PDF, 249 KB)]
S. Capkun, J. P. Hubaux,
Secure positioning in wireless networks,
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC): Special Issue on Security in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, February 2006. [PDF (PDF, 639 KB)]
S.Sedihpour, S.Capkun, S.Ganeriwal and M.Srivastava,
Implementation of Attacks on Ultrasonic Ranging Systems, demo,
ACM SENSYS 2005. Demo description [PDF (PDF, 61 KB)], Poster [PDF (PDF, 89 KB)]
S.Capkun, J.P. Hubaux,
Secure positioning of wireless devices with application to sensor networks,
in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2005 [PDF (PDF, 541 KB)]
S. Capkun, M. Hamdi and J. P. Hubaux,
GPS-free Positioning in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks,
In Proceedings of 34’th HICSS, January 2001. (best paper award) [PDF (PDF, 197 KB)]