Overview of Spatial Processing Approaches for GNSS Structural Interference Detection and Mitigation

GNSS-dependent positioning, navigation, and timing synchronization procedures have a significant impact on everyday life. Thus, such an extensively used system progressively become an attractive target for illegal exploitation and attacks. Position and timing solutions provided by GNSS receivers can be threatened by structural interference such as spoofing threats. This paper provides an overview of recent research work on GNSS signal authentication utilizing spatial processing methods. Different spatial processing approaches for spoofing detection, classification and mitigation are characterized and compared. Three different processing methods, namely antenna array processing, moving receiver and cloud based spoofing countermeasure are analyzed in details. The benefits and disadvantages of each are discussed.