NATIONAL NAVIGATION-COMMUNICATION ECOSYSTEM FOR CRITICAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION

Abstract

This paper proposes to implement a domestic Navigation and Communication ecosystem to protect the critical information infrastructure (CII) of the Russian Federation. As experience shows, the threats of CII are increasing when using personal subscriber devices for communication and data exchange on the territory of the facility (mobile phones, tablets, etc.). The goal is to create an ecosystem that should ensure transparency of data exchange from subscriber to subscriber, so that any transmitted data packet in its parcel has an exact time and geographic reference to the coordinates of the sender and recipient. In this case a prerequisite is that the subscriber's location must be determined regardless of the availability of global navigation Satellite systems (GNSS) signals – GLONASS, GPS, etc., and consumer navigation equipment must be resistant to deliberate distortion of the transmitted coordinate information (spoofing). Therefore, the main source of navigation data in the CONSUL ecosystem should be a local navigation system (LNS), ensuring the determination of the location of objects in conditions of poor reception or complete absence of GNSS satellite signals, as well as in conditions of navigation signal suppression or «spoofing». Accurate positioning of monitoring objects using LNS provides additional information during complex processing and comparison of heterogeneous data collection devices to generate alarm events. Clusters of monitoring objects and their dynamics, the location of interacting devices are tracked, the appearance of new objects within the controlled territory is recorded. For the widespread implementation of this ecosystem, it is proposed to implement a number of measures, which include standardization of the protocol for data exchange at critical information infrastructure facilities and the approval of uniform tactical and technical requirements for navigation and communication equipment.

Keywords

• critical information infrastructure, protection, navigation, communication, data exchange, location, ecosystem, local navigation system.