GNSS Interference Monitoring and Detection (GIMAD) System

Abstract

In the last few years, gradually more systems have relied on the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) for their correct functioning. These systems include safety-critical applications such as airports or emergency services. Given the wide number of GNSS applications and the current availability of affordable and easily configurable Software-Defined Radio (SDR) devices, GNSS has become the target of numerous Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) attacks. Thus, RFI has become a real threat for GNSS and, hence, for those systems relying on it. With the purpose of detecting, characterizing, and localizing RFI not only in GNSS frequency bands but also in other daily-used frequency bands, a GNSS Interference Monitoring and Detection (GIMAD) prototype has been developed, with special emphasis on its deployment in safety-critical environments such as airports. GIMAD contemplates European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) V3 and International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Ground Based Augmentation System (GBAS) RFI masks covering both in-band and out-band RFIs. In addition, GIMAD was tested in a real-field scenario.

Keywords

• GNSS
• GPS
• Galileo
• RFI
• Jamming
• RFI detection