On the Potential of Distance Bounding based on UWB Received Signal Strength

Leo Botler, Leandro Ribeiro, Konrad Diwold, Konrad Diwold, Kay Römer

2020

Abstract

Distance bounding has gained attention in the last decades due to the increasing need for security in applications, such as contactless payment and keyless access control. In such applications, it is important to verify if the two entities participating in a transaction are geographically close to each other. In other applications, it is critical to guarantee that the two entities are not too close, e.g., human and machines interacting in the same environment. A distance fraud is a known class of attacks in this context, and it has been shown that particular attacks within this class can be successfully applied to any distance estimation approach relying on round-trip time-of-flight measurements. In this paper we discuss the feasibility of detecting such attacks with signal strength estimations, an approach which was deemed unsuitable for distance bounding by previous related studies. We show that our method can detect attacks in case a dishonest prover does not respect the given bounds by using path-loss models available in the literature.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Botler L., Ribeiro L., Diwold K., Diwold K. and Römer K. (2020). On the Potential of Distance Bounding based on UWB Received Signal Strength.In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Pervasive and Parallel Computing, Communication and Sensors - Volume 1: PECCS, ISBN 978-989-758-477-0, pages 7-14. DOI: 10.5220/0010282200070014

in Bibtex Style

@conference{peccs20,
author={Leo Botler and Leandro Ribeiro and Konrad Diwold and Konrad Diwold and Kay Römer},
title={On the Potential of Distance Bounding based on UWB Received Signal Strength},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Pervasive and Parallel Computing, Communication and Sensors - Volume 1: PECCS,},
year={2020},
pages={7-14},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010282200070014},
isbn={978-989-758-477-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Pervasive and Parallel Computing, Communication and Sensors - Volume 1: PECCS,
TI - On the Potential of Distance Bounding based on UWB Received Signal Strength
SN - 978-989-758-477-0
AU - Botler L.
AU - Ribeiro L.
AU - Diwold K.
AU - Diwold K.
AU - Römer K.
PY - 2020
SP - 7
EP - 14
DO - 10.5220/0010282200070014