Joshua Smailes : Publications
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@inproceedings{yanevSecure2026,
title = "Poster: Secure and Scalable Rerouting in LEO Satellite Networks",
author = "Yanev, Lyubomir and Ronchetti, Pietro and Smailes, Joshua and Strohmeier, Martin",
year = "2026",
booktitle = "4th Workshop on Security of Space and Satellite Systems (SpaceSec)",
month = "February",
url = "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.10173",
}
@article{smailesSATversary2025,
title = "SATversary: Adversarial Attacks on Satellite Fingerprinting",
author = "Smailes, Joshua and K{\"o}hler, Sebastian and Birnbach, Simon and Strohmeier, Martin and Martinovic, Ivan",
year = "2025",
journal = "arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.06119",
month = "June",
url = "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.06119",
}
@inproceedings{solenthalerOrbID2025,
title = "OrbID: Identifying Orbcomm Satellite RF Fingerprints",
author = "Solenthaler, C{\'e}dric and Smailes, Joshua and Strohmeier, Martin",
year = "2025",
booktitle = "3rd Workshop on Security of Space and Satellite Systems (SpaceSec)",
month = "February",
url = "https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/spacesec25-final31.pdf",
doi = "10.14722/spacesec.2025.23031",
}
@inproceedings{smailesDSNS2025,
title = "DSNS: The Deep Space Network Simulator",
author = "Smailes, Joshua and Futera, Filip and K{\"o}hler, Sebastian and Birnbach, Simon and Strohmeier, Martin and Martinovic, Ivan",
year = "2025",
booktitle = "2025 Security for Space Systems (3S)",
month = "November",
organization = "IEEE",
url = "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.04317",
}
@article{smailes2025satiq,
title = "SatIQ: Extensible and Stable Satellite Authentication using Hardware Fingerprinting",
author = "Smailes, Joshua and Köhler, Sebastian and Birnbach, Simon and Strohmeier, Martin and Martinovic, Ivan",
year = "2025",
journal = "ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security",
month = "October",
number = "1",
pages = "1--35",
publisher = "ACM New York, NY",
url = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3768619",
volume = "29",
doi = "10.1145/3768619",
}
@article{smailesKeySpace2024,
title = "KeySpace: Enhancing Public Key Infrastructure for Interplanetary Networks",
author = "Smailes, Joshua and Futera, Filip and K{\"o}hler, Sebastian and Birnbach, Simon and Strohmeier, Martin and Martinovic, Ivan",
year = "2024",
journal = "arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.10963",
month = "August",
url = "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.10963",
}
@inproceedings{smailes2024sticky,
title = "Sticky Fingers: Resilience of Satellite Fingerprinting against Jamming Attacks",
author = "Smailes, Joshua and Salkield, Edd and Köhler, Sebastian and Birnbach, Simon and Strohmeier, Martin and Martinovic, Ivan",
year = "2024",
booktitle = "2nd Workshop on Security of Space and Satellite Systems (SpaceSec)",
location = "San Diego, CA, USA",
month = "March",
doi = "10.14722/spacesec.2024.23054",
}
@inproceedings{Salkield23,
title = "Satellite Spoofing from A to Z: On the Requirements of Satellite Downlink Overshadowing Attacks",
author = "Salkield, Edd and Szakály, Marcell and Smailes, Joshua and Birnbach, Simon and Köhler, Sebastian and Strohmeier, Martin and Martinovic, Ivan",
year = "2023",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec)",
month = "May",
note = "\textbf{Best Paper Award: Runner Up!}",
url = "https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e9d5d85f-b77f-4f11-8006-17dd88660467/download_file?file_format=application%2Fpdf&safe_filename=Salkield_et_al_2023_satellite_spoofing_from.pdf&type_of_work=Conference+item",
doi = "10.1145/3558482.3590190",
}
@techreport{smailesSpaceQUIC2023,
title = "Poster: spaceQUIC: Securing Communication in Computationally Constrained Spacecraft",
author = "Smailes, Joshua and David, Razvan and Kohler, Sebastian and Birnbach, Simon and Martinovic, Ivan",
year = "2023",
howpublished = "Poster presented at the 16th Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec)",
month = "May",
url = "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.12948",
}
@techreport{smailes2023dishing,
title = "Dishing Out DoS: How to Disable and Secure the Starlink User Terminal",
author = "Smailes, Joshua and Salkield, Edd and Köhler, Sebastian and Birnbach, Simon and Martinovic, Ivan",
year = "2023",
howpublished = "Poster presented at the 16th Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec)",
month = "May",
url = "https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.00582",
}
@inproceedings{smailes2023watch,
title = "Watch This Space: Securing Satellite Communication through Resilient Transmitter Fingerprinting",
author = "Smailes, Joshua and Köhler, Sebastian and Birnbach, Simon and Strohmeier, Martin and Martinovic, Ivan",
year = "2023",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 23)",
month = "November",
url = "https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.06947",
doi = "10.1145/3576915.3623135",
}
@inproceedings{birnbachAdaptable2023,
title = "Adaptable Hardware Fingerprinting for Radio Data Links and Avionics Buses in Adversarial Settings",
author = "Birnbach, Simon and Smailes, Joshua and Baker, Richard and Martinovic, Ivan",
year = "2023",
booktitle = "2023 IEEE/AIAA 42nd Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC)",
month = "October",
note = "\textbf{Best of Session Award!}",
organization = "IEEE",
url = "https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0c7ff85f-6335-4cae-8848-852d1b63cd49/files/st435gf670",
doi = "10.1109/DASC58513.2023.10311117",
}
@inproceedings{smailesCPSS2021,
title = "You talkin' to me? Exploring Practical Attacks on Controller Pilot Data Link Communications",
author = "Smailes, Joshua and Moser, Daniel and Smith, Matthew and Strohmeier, Martin and Lenders, Vincent and Martinovic, Ivan",
year = "2021",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 7th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (CPSS 2021)",
month = "June",
note = "\textbf{Best Paper Award!}",
url = "https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3457339.3457985",
doi = "10.1145/3457339.3457985",
}