[HTML][HTML] Satellite-based communications security: A survey of threats, solutions, and research challenges

P Tedeschi, S Sciancalepore, R Di Pietro - Computer Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
Satellite-based Communication (SATCOM) systems are gaining renewed momentum in
Industry and Academia, thanks to innovative services introduced by leading tech companies …

Revolutionizing future connectivity: A contemporary survey on AI-empowered satellite-based non-terrestrial networks in 6G

S Mahboob, L Liu - IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) are expected to be a critical component of 6th Generation
(6G) networks, providing ubiquitous, continuous, and scalable services. Satellites emerge as …

Authentication for satellite communication systems using physical characteristics

M Abdrabou, TA Gulliver - IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Satellite communication networks have gained a lot of attention recently as a solution to
mitigate the limitations of terrestrial networks such as stability and coverage. However …

Satellite spoofing from a to z: on the requirements of satellite downlink overshadowing attacks

E Salkield, M Szakály, J Smailes, S Köhler… - Proceedings of the 16th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Satellite communications are increasingly crucial for telecommunications, navigation, and
Earth observation. However, many widely used satellites do not cryptographically secure the …

On physical-layer authentication via online transfer learning

Y Chen, PH Ho, H Wen, SY Chang… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article introduces a novel physical-layer (PHY-layer) authentication scheme, called
transfer learning-based PHY-layer authentication (TL-PHA), aiming to achieve fast online …

Machine Learning and Deep Learning powered satellite communications: Enabling technologies, applications, open challenges, and future research directions

A Bhattacharyya, SM Nambiar, R Ojha… - … Journal of Satellite …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The recent wave of creating an interconnected world through satellites has renewed interest
in satellite communications. Private and government‐funded space agencies are making …

Watch this space: Securing satellite communication through resilient transmitter fingerprinting

J Smailes, S Köhler, S Birnbach, M Strohmeier… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Due to an increase in the availability of cheap off-the-shelf radio hardware, signal spoofing
and replay attacks on satellite ground systems have become more accessible than ever …

The day-after-tomorrow: On the performance of radio fingerprinting over time

A Saeif, S Savio, O Gabriele - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Computer …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The performance of Radio Frequency (RF) Fingerprinting (RFF) techniques is negatively
impacted when the training data is not temporally close to the testing data. This can limit the …

Auth-AIS: secure, flexible, and backward-compatible authentication of vessels AIS broadcasts

S Sciancalepore, P Tedeschi, A Aziz… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic Identification System (AIS) is the de-facto communication standard used by
vessels to broadcast identification and position information. However, being AIS …

Physical layer security in satellite communication: State-of-the-art and open problems

N Abdelsalam, S Al-Kuwari, A Erbad - arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.03672, 2023 - arxiv.org
Satellite communications emerged as a promising extension to terrestrial networks in future
6G network research due to their extensive coverage in remote areas and ability to support …