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FedJam: Multimodal Federated Learning Framework for Jamming Detection

Networking and Internet Architecture 2025-12-10 v2

Abstract

Jamming attacks pose a critical threat to wireless networks, yet existing detection methods remain largely unimodal, centralized and resource-intensive, limiting their performance, scalability, and deployment feasibility, respectively. To address these limitations, we present FedJam, a multimodal Federated Learning (FL) framework for on-device jamming detection and classification. FedJam locally fuses spectrograms and cross-layer network Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) using a lightweight dual-encoder architecture with an integrated fusion module and multimodal projection head, that enables privacy-preserving training and inference without transmitting raw data. We prototype and deploy FedJam on a wireless experimental testbed and evaluate it using the first, over-the-air multimodal dataset comprising synchronized samples across benign and three distinct jamming attack types. FedJam outperforms state-of-the-art unimodal baselines by up to 15% in accuracy, while requiring 60% fewer communication rounds to converge, and maintains low resource utilization. Its advantage is especially pronounced in realistic scenarios, where it remains extremely robust under heterogeneous data distributions across devices.

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@article{arxiv.2508.09369,
  title  = {FedJam: Multimodal Federated Learning Framework for Jamming Detection},
  author = {Ioannis Panitsas and Iason Ofeidis and Leandros Tassiulas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.09369},
  year   = {2025}
}
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