Asymmetric Channel Attack Against Practical Round-Trip Fiber Time Synchronization System

Round-trip transmission scheme is one of key scheme for the high-precise fiber time synchronization system. Here an asymmetric channel attack against practical round-trip time synchronization system is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. Using the achieved asymmetric channel attack module, the accuracy of the time synchronization system can be reduced from 90 ps to 538 ps as designed. It shows that channel symmetry assumption in practical applications could be broken by such attack method, and this attack could not be found without single-way-delay monitoring.