Abstract
Connected vehicles electronically exchange information about their location, speed, and even V2V (vehicle-to-vehicle) packets. Thanks to V2V communication technology, vehicles may be able to use communications to mitigate possible dangers as they emerge. A major issue that needs to be addressed in V2V networks is the presence of malicious users that can disrupt the network through various means. These malicious activities can involve manipulating safety messages or launching location spoof attacks.
In this project, a physical-layer-based location spoof attack detection technique for next generation millimeter-wave vehicular networks is proposed. This is achieved by using the additional channel measurements available at the receiver’s antennas to estimate the communication signal’s angle-of-arrival (AoA) and compare the estimated AoA of the received message with the reported location information.