Title | ||
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SimpleMAC: A Simple Wireless MAC-Layer Countermeasure to Intelligent and Insider Jammers |
Abstract | ||
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In wireless networks, users share a transmission medium. For efficient channel use, wireless systems often use a Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol to perform channel coordination by having each node announce its usage intentions and other nodes avoid making conflicting transmissions. Traditionally, such announcements are made on a common control channel. However, this control channel is vulnerable to jamming because its location is pre-assigned and known to attackers. Furthermore, the announcements themselves provide information useful for jamming. We focus on a situation where transmitters share spectrum in the presence of intelligent and insider jammers capable of adaptively changing their jamming patterns. Despite the complex threat model, we propose a simple MAC scheme, called SimpleMAC, that effectively counters network compromise and MAC-aware jamming attacks. We then study the optimal adversarial behavior and analyze the performance of the proposed scheme theoretically, through Monte Carlo simulations, and by implementation on the WARP software-defined radio platform. In comparison to the Nash equilibrium alternative of disabling the MAC protocol, SimpleMAC quickly attains vastly improved performance and converges to the optimal solution (over six-fold improvement in SINR and 50% gains in channel capacity in a realistic mobile scenario). |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2016 | 10.1109/TNET.2015.2408716 | IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Jamming,Transmitters,Interference,Receivers,Signal to noise ratio,Media Access Protocol | Control channel,Wireless network,Wireless,Channel use,Computer science,Computer network,Access control,Transmission medium,Channel capacity,Jamming,Distributed computing | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
PP | 99 | 1063-6692 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
3 | 0.40 | 13 |
Authors | ||
3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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C. Yang | 1 | 296 | 43.66 |
Yi Huang | 2 | 850 | 98.48 |
Laurenti, N. | 3 | 14 | 2.06 |