Jamming Mitigation in Multi-Radio Wireless Networks

Khattab, Sherif; Mossé, Daniel; Melhem, Rami

doi:10.1145/1460877.1460912

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“…In [19], a jamming game was formulated with the transmission cost considered, and generalized water-filling was proved to be the unique Nash equilibrium. In [20], the blocking probability was analyzed for different kinds of attack strategies and defense strategies. In [21][22] [23], an uncoordinated frequency hopping scheme was developed where a transmitter and several receivers followed their own hopping patterns to mitigate the jamming impact, and a communication link was established when the transmitter and a receiver happened to choose the same unjammed channel.…”

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confidence: 99%

Anti-Jamming Games in Multi-Channel Cognitive Radio Networks

Wang

Liu

et al. 2012

IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun.

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Abstract-Crucial to the successful deployment of cognitive radio networks, security issues have begun to receive research interests recently. In this paper, we focus on defending against the jamming attack, one of the major threats to cognitive radio networks. Secondary users can exploit the flexible access to multiple channels as the means of anti-jamming defense. We first investigate the situation where a secondary user can access only one channel at a time and hop among different channels, and model it as an anti-jamming game. Analyzing the interaction between the secondary user and attackers, we derive a channel hopping defense strategy using the Markov decision process approach with the assumption of perfect knowledge, and then propose two learning schemes for secondary users to gain knowledge of adversaries to handle cases without perfect knowledge. In addition, we extend to the scenario where secondary users can access all available channels simultaneously, and redefine the anti-jamming game with randomized power allocation as the defense strategy. We derive the Nash equilibrium for this Colonel Blotto game which minimizes the worst-case damage. Finally, simulation results are presented to verify the performance.

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Section: A Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Anti-Jamming Games in Multi-Channel Cognitive Radio Networks

Wang

Liu

et al. 2012

IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun.

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143

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“…Current standardization bodies do not consider any jamming resiliency requirements for the next planned release of the LTE advanced standard. Nevertheless, some work has been done in addressing jamming attacks in WLANs [35] and WSNs [15].…”

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Enhancing the security of LTE networks against jamming attacks

Jover

Lackey

Raghavan

2014

EURASIP J. on Info. Security

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The long-term evolution (LTE) is the newly adopted technology to offer enhanced capacity and coverage for current mobility networks, which experience a constant traffic increase and skyrocketing bandwidth demands. This new cellular communication system, built upon a redesigned physical layer and based on an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) modulation, features robust performance in challenging multipath environments and substantially improves the performance of the wireless channel in terms of bits per second per Hertz (bps/Hz). Nevertheless, as all wireless systems, LTE is vulnerable to radio jamming attacks. Such threats have security implications especially in the case of next-generation emergency response communication systems based on LTE technologies. This proof of concept paper overviews a series of new effective attacks (smart jamming) that extend the range and effectiveness of basic radio jamming. Based on these new threats, a series of new potential security research directions are introduced, aiming to enhance the resiliency of LTE networks against such attacks. A spread-spectrum modulation of the main downlink broadcast channels is combined with a scrambling of the radio resource allocation of the uplink control channels and an advanced system information message encryption scheme. Despite the challenging implementation on commercial networks, which would require inclusion of these solutions in future releases of the LTE standard, the security solutions could strongly enhance the security of LTE-based national emergency response communication systems.

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“…There have been quite a few papers on jamming attacks in wireless ad hoc networks, such as [8] and [9]. A jamming game with transmission costs was formulated in [8], and the blocking probability was analyzed for different kinds of attack strategies and defense strategies in [9].…”

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“…A jamming game with transmission costs was formulated in [8], and the blocking probability was analyzed for different kinds of attack strategies and defense strategies in [9]. However, the problem becomes more complicated in a cognitive radio network where primary users' access has to be taken into consideration.…”

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Optimal Defense against Jamming Attacks in Cognitive Radio Networks Using the Markov Decision Process Approach

Wang

Liu

2010

2010 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference GLOBECOM 2010

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Abstract-Cognitive radio technology has become a promising approach to increase the efficiency of spectrum utilization. Since cognitive radio users are vulnerable to malicious attacks, security countermeasures are crucial to the successful deployment of cognitive radio networks in the future. In this paper, we focus on defending against the jamming attack, one of the major threats to cognitive radio networks, where several malicious attackers intend to jam the secondary user's communication link by injecting interference. We model this scenario into a jamming game, and derive the optimal strategy through the Markov decision process approach. Furthermore, a learning scheme is proposed for the secondary user to observe the wireless environment and estimate parameters such as primary users' access pattern and the number of attackers. Finally, simulation results are presented to verify the performance.

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Jamming Mitigation in Multi-Radio Wireless Networks

Cited by 38 publications

References 14 publications

Anti-Jamming Games in Multi-Channel Cognitive Radio Networks

Anti-Jamming Games in Multi-Channel Cognitive Radio Networks

Enhancing the security of LTE networks against jamming attacks

Optimal Defense against Jamming Attacks in Cognitive Radio Networks Using the Markov Decision Process Approach

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