Dark Side of HAPS Systems: Jamming Threats towards Satellites
Hadil Otay, Khaled Humadi, and Gunes Karabulut Kurt

TL;DR
This paper examines jamming threats to satellite communication systems involving HAPS, proposing models to analyze security impacts and demonstrating that satellite cooperation enhances resilience against jamming attacks.
Contribution
It introduces a mathematical framework for analyzing jamming effects in satellite-HAPS systems and compares single and cooperative satellite scenarios for improved security.
Findings
Satellite cooperation reduces outage probability under jamming.
HAPS jamming impacts are mitigated with relay-assisted transmission.
Mathematical models quantify jamming effects on satellite links.
Abstract
Securing satellite communication networks is imperative in the rapidly evolving landscape of advanced telecommunications, particularly in the context of 6G advancements. This paper establishes a secure low earth orbit (LEO) satellite network paradigm to address the challenges of the evolving 6G era, with a focus on enhancing communication integrity between satellites and ground stations. Countering the threat of jamming, which can disrupt vital communication channels, is a key goal of this work. In particular, this paper investigates the performance of two LEO satellite communication scenarios under the presence of jamming attacker. In the first scenario, we consider a system that comprises one transmitting satellite, a receiving ground station, and a high altitude platform station (HAPS) acting as a jammer. The HAPS disrupts communication between the satellite and the ground station,…
Peer Reviews
No public reviews on file for this paper yet. If you reviewed it on a platform where reviews are public (OpenReview, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML), you can paste yours below so the community can read it here.
Videos
No videos yet. Explain this paper in a talk, walkthrough, or lecture? Add one.
Taxonomy
TopicsSpace Satellite Systems and Control
MethodsFocus
