MUMBAI, India, Jan. 23 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641001502 A) filed by Venkata Ratnam D; and Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, on Jan. 6, for 'forensic analysis of 5g spoofing attacks on autonomous vehicles for secure positioning and navigation.'
Inventor(s) include M. Keerthana; M. Sridhar; K. Devadas; and D. Venkata Ratnam.
The application for the patent was published on Jan. 23, under issue no. 04/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The rapid availability of 5G networks and their dedicated positioning signals provide an excellent opportunity to offer location-based services in a denied Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) environment. 5G New Radio Positioning signals, such as Observed Time Different Arrival (OTDOA), Angle of Arrival (AoA), and Positioning Reference Signal (PRS), and Uplink Sounder reference signals (SRS) and side link positioning signals are being widely used for 5G standalone high precision Positioning, Navigation, Timing (PNT) Applications. Mitigation strategies for GNSS attacks, including jamming and spoofing, have undergone significant evolution in recent years. However, the security of 5G high-precision positioning systems is still in the development stage, and there is a need for the development of a defining standard toolkit for the 5G forensic framework. The UE, Access nodes, and 5G base stations are more vulnerable to attacks. 5G physical PHY layer is susceptible to attacks such as eavesdropping, jamming, spoofing, and pilot contamination, impacting positioning accuracy and communication integrity. Minimal data sets and attack libraries are available. The complex 5G NR positioning attacks at the 5G PHY need to be investigated through multi-entity, signal-level forensic analysis. In this research, the Forensic Toolkit SDK for 5G NR positioning attacks and the 5G Attack Library & datasets is developed for 5G secured PNT solutions."
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