Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (11): 3680-3689.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2023.11.37

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ADS-B anomaly detection method based on Transformer-VAE

Jianli DING1, Qiqi ZHANG1, Jing WANG2,3,*, Weigang HUO1   

  1. 1. College of Computer Science and Technology, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin 300300, China
    2. Information Security Evaluation Center of Civil Aviation, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin 300300, China
    3. College of Safety Science and Engineering, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin 300300, China
  • Received:2022-10-14 Online:2023-10-25 Published:2023-10-31
  • Contact: Jing WANG

Abstract:

Aiming at the problem that the existing anomaly detection algorithm cannot simultaneously capture the long-range dependency, randomness and overall characteristics in the automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) message sequence, an anomaly detection algorithm for ADS-B based on variational autoencoder (VAE) and Transformer is proposed. The Transformer encoder and decoder are used as the inference network and generation network of VAE to learn the timing distribution of ADS-B packet sequence. The long-range dependence relationship in ADS-B packet sequence is modeled by the self-attention mechanism of Transformer encoder, and random variables reflecting the global information of ADS-B packet sequence are generated. A special fusion module is used to fuse the global random variables with the output of Transformer decoder to realize the reconstruction of ADS-B packets. Finally, anomaly is detected through reconstruction error. Experiments show that the method outperforms the relevant baseline algorithms under different attack scenarios.

Key words: automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B), anomaly detection, variational autoencoder, deep learning

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