A Novel Approach of Protocol Behavior Identification for TDMA-Based Frequency Hopping Communication

Abstract

Frequency hopping (FH) communication technology is adopted widely in military and civil fields, due to its excellent communication characteristics such as antisearch and anti-interference. Efficient reconnaissance methods of FH communication are becoming a research hotspot. In this paper, a novel reconnaissance approach for FH communication emitters is proposed, by using the TMDA protocol behavior identification. Based on the signalling used in the TDMA protocol, the protocol behavior for FH communication can be specified. These behaviors are usually used for the process controlling of FH communication and network maintenance. Therefore, recognition of FH communication protocol behaviors can be used for emitter intention reasoning indirectly. Simulation results show that the proposed approach is effective and potential for application.

Identification of Shortwave Radio Communication Behavior Based on Autocorrelation Spectrogram Features

“…Research on communication behavior can be divided into communication group behavior [22,23] and communication individual behavior [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36]. The former mainly refers to a series of combat tasks coordinated by groups equipped with CRS, while the latter mainly refers to the working modes, tasks of a certain CRS, and the actions of the person or unit operating the CRS.…”

“…The second method is to obtain the communication behavior by parsing the communication protocol. [30,31]. The third method transforms the problem of communication behavior recognition into the problem of radio signal classification recognition by analyzing the behavior connotation of intercepted radio signals [32][33][34][35][36].…”

“…Cheng et al proposed a method called DECBR, which DCGAN was used for data enhancement and realized the identification of communication behaviors under small sample conditions [29]. Zhang et al obtained the behavioral intention of the frequency hopping transmitter by analyzing the TDMA protocol [30]. You and Ge proposed a regular expression-based Fetion communication message identification method through the analysis of specific fields in the Fetion protocol, so as to achieve the purpose of inferring the Fetion communication behavior [31].…”