Visible to the public Spoofing Attacks to Radar Motion Sensors with Portable RF Devices

TitleSpoofing Attacks to Radar Motion Sensors with Portable RF Devices
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2021
AuthorsRodriguez, Daniel, Wang, Jing, Li, Changzhi
Conference Name2021 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS)
Keywordsauthentication, Binary phase shift keying, biometrics, Continuous Authentication, Doppler radar, performance evaluation, Phase shifters, pubcrawl, radar sensors, resilience, Scalability, security, Sensor phenomena and characterization, sensor security, spoofing attacks, surveillance
AbstractRadar sensors have shown great potential for surveillance and security authentication applications. However, a thorough analysis of their vulnerability to spoofing or replay attacks has not been performed yet. In this paper, the feasibility of performing spoofing attacks to radar sensor is studied and experimentally verified. First, a simple binary phase-shift keying system was used to generate artificial spectral components in the radar's demodulated signal. Additionally, an analog phase shifter was driven by an arbitrary signal generator to mimic the human cardio-respiratory motion. Characteristic time and frequency domain cardio-respiratory human signatures were successfully generated, which opens possibilities to perform spoofing attacks to surveillance and security continuous authentication systems based on microwave radar sensors.
DOI10.1109/RWS50353.2021.9360393
Citation Keyrodriguez_spoofing_2021