Discriminating and Mitigating SNS Spoofing Signals

Abstract

A system and method for discriminating and mitigating spoofing signals incoming to a satellite navigation system. Beam steering techniques are used to steer a null toward a legitimate satellite signal that is being spoofed. The spoofing signal is then tracked and its angle of arrival measured. A null is steered toward the measured angle of arrival of the spoofing signal, and the spoofing signal is confirmed by determining if there is a signal remaining with nulls on both the legitimate satellite signal and the spoofing signal. The null toward the legitimate satellite signal is then replaced with unity gain.

Patent Number
11,300,687
Date Of Issue
Inventors

Thomas Howard Jaeckle; Wayne D. Music; Donald R. Van Rheeden; Thomas Tillotson; Jeffery C. Sanders