Threat Models and Use Cases for Multimodal Transportation
This project will leverage the research team's experience with aviation interference evaluation scenarios for adaptation to surface transportation. Airborne receivers already have requirements to maintain integrity in the presence of RFI—specifically, to not generate errors that threaten user safety with a greater-than-allowed probability—even at high RFI power levels. Further, the receivers are required to return to normal operations within specified time periods after removal of the interfering signals. Compliance to these requirements are evaluated through a series of tests. For example, several tests require simulation of aircraft trajectories that have an aircraft overfly an emitter radiating either jamming or spoofing signals at specified power levels. At RFI power levels below a specified threshold, the receiver must operate normally (i.e., meet all requirements for nominal operations). When RFI power surpasses the threshold, the receiver must not produce misleading information. It may warn the user that it is unable to output a trusted position, or it may have the ability to continue to operate. The simulation scenarios are based on observed flight experience and tests with active RFI and spoofing from controlled emitters and are chosen from scenarios most likely to stress a receiver's ability to meet safety requirements. This project will leverage the existing aviation knowledge-base to develop spoofing and jamming evaluation scenarios for other transportation modes. The first goal is to identify a limited number of representative scenarios that can be used to test a GNSS receiver’s ability to meet specified requirements. The research team will focus on their committed Advisory Board partners at the Ports of Virginia and Long Beach, which combine maritime, rail, and trucking in a relatively compact area. Emitters can enter this environment in several ways, four of which will be examined here: (1) a constantly-powered-on emitter enters a terminal within a shipping container unbeknownst to the ship’s crew; (2) an intermittent emitter installed on a truck for “personal privacy” enters one of the port delivery areas; (3) a high-power emitter suddenly transmits from the nearby Norfolk Naval Station; and (4) one or more deliberate (hostile) emitters are introduced in a manner designed to delay detection while causing substantial harm. As the power of these emitters is varied, their impacts, if not mitigated, could extend beyond a single port-terminal to affect the operations of the entire complex. The role of the research team's proposed R-PNT solutions is to mitigate these effects so that disruption to loading/unloading and shipping operations is minimized. These threat models for multimodal port operations will then serve as prototypes to develop testable CAV threat scenarios
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Language
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Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $Federal $140,000, Cost-share $70,000
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Contract Numbers:
Illinois Institute of Technology/69A3552348324
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Sponsor Organizations:
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
University Transportation Centers Program
Department of Transportation
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Managing Organizations:
Center for Assured and Resilient Navigation in Advanced Transportation Systems
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL United States 60616 -
Project Managers:
Narang, Aashish
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Performing Organizations:
Center for Assured and Resilient Navigation in Advanced Transportation Systems
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL United States 60616 -
Principal Investigators:
Walter, Todd
Lo, Sherman
Pullen, Sam
- Start Date: 20231001
- Expected Completion Date: 20280930
- Actual Completion Date: 0
- USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program
- Subprogram: University Transportation Centers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Autonomous vehicles; Computer security; Connected vehicles; Countermeasures; Mobile communication systems; Multimodal transportation; Navigation
- Geographic Terms: Norfolk (Virginia)
- Subject Areas: Aviation; Data and Information Technology; Freight Transportation; Marine Transportation; Motor Carriers; Railroads; Security and Emergencies; Transportation (General);
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01906662
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Center for Assured and Resilient Navigation in Advanced Transportation Systems
- Contract Numbers: Illinois Institute of Technology/69A3552348324
- Files: UTC, RIP
- Created Date: Jan 31 2024 3:55PM