Title
Exploiting Subcarrier Agility to Alleviate Active Jamming Attacks in Wireless Networks.
Abstract
Malicious interference injection or jamming is one of the simplest ways to disrupt wireless communications. Prior approaches can alleviate jamming interference to a limited extent; they are especially vulnerable to a reactive jammer i.e., a jammer that injects noise upon sensing a legitimate transmission or wideband jamming. In this paper, we leverage the inherent features of OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) to cope with such attacks. Specifically, via extensive experiments, we observe that the jamming signal experiences differing levels of fading across the composite sub-carriers in its transmission bandwidth. Thus, if the legitimate transmitter were to somehow exploit the relatively unaffected sub-carriers to transmit data to the receiver, it could achieve reasonable throughputs, even in the presence of the active jammer. We design and implement JIMS, a Jamming Interference Mitigation Scheme that exploits the above characteristic by overcoming key practical challenges. Via extensive testbed experiments and simulations we show that JIMS achieves a throughput restoration of up to 75% in the presence of an active jammer.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/TMC.2015.2405532
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Jamming,Interference,OFDM,Fading channels,Signal to noise ratio,Mobile computing,Transceivers
Subcarrier,Wireless network,Transmitter,Wireless,Computer science,Fading,Near-far problem,Computer network,Jamming,Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
PP
99
1536-1233
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.37
17
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ahmed Osama Fathy Atya1114.78
Azeem Aqil2234.08
Shailendra Singh313610.54
Ioannis Broustis442529.27
Karthikeyan Sundaresan51671126.71
Srikanth Krishnamurthy61919124.08