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State-of-the-art solutions detect jamming attacks ex-post, i.e., only when jamming has already disrupted the wireless communication link. In many scenarios, e.g., mobile networks or static deployments distributed over a large geographical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Martijn Hanegraaf , Savio Sciancalepore , Gabriele Oligeri

This paper investigates the impact of reactive jamming on LoRaWAN networks, focusing on showing that LoRaWAN communications can be effectively disrupted with minimal jammer exposure time. The susceptibility of LoRa to jamming is assessed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Amavi Dossa , Andreas Burg , El Mehdi Amhoud

Smart jamming attacks on cellular campus networks represent an enormous potential threat, especially in the industrial environment. In complex production processes, the disruption of a single wireless connected Cyber-Physical System (CPS)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-14 J. R. Stegmann , M. Gundall , H. D. Schotten

This letter proposes anti-jamming strategies based on pilot retransmission for a single user uplink massive MIMO under jamming attack. A jammer is assumed to attack the system both in the training and data transmission phases. We first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Tan Tai Do , Hien Quoc Ngo , Trung Q. Duong , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

In this paper, we study a wireless networked control system (WNCS) with $N \ge 2$ sub-systems sharing a common wireless channel. Each sub-system consists of a plant and a controller and the control message must be delivered from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Lei Deng , Cheng Tan , Wing Shing Wong

In advanced jamming, the adversary intentionally concentrates the available energy budget on specific critical components (e.g., pilot symbols, acknowledgement packets, etc.) to (i) increase the jamming effectiveness, as more targets can be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Liyang Zhang , Francesco Restuccia , Tommaso Melodia , Scott M. Pudleswki

Multi-agent consensus under jamming attacks is investigated. Specifically, inter-agent communications over a network are assumed to fail at certain times due to jamming of transmissions by a malicious attacker. A new stochastic…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Ahmet Cetinkaya , Kaito Kikuchi , Tomohisa Hayakawa , Hideaki Ishii

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is an emerging technology now-a-days and has a wide range of applications such as battlefield surveillance, traffic surveillance, forest fire detection, flood detection etc. But wireless sensor networks are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-07-16 Deepali Virmani , Ankita Soni , Shringarica Chandel , Manas Hemrajani

While the millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is robust against the conventional wiretapping attack due to its short transmission range and directivity, this paper proposes a new opportunistic wiretapping and jamming (OWJ) attack model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Yuanyu Zhang , Zhumeng Zheng , Ji He , Shuangrui Zhao , Qianyue Qu , Yulong Shen , Xiaohong Jiang

As wireless systems grow rapidly worldwide, one of the most important things, wireless systems designers and service providers faces is interference. Interference decreases coverage, capacity [1], and limits the effectiveness of both new…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Zeeshan Haider , Muhammad Saleem , T. Jamal

We study broadcasting in multiple access channels with dynamic packet arrivals and jamming. Communication environments are represented by adversarial models that specify constraints on packet arrivals and jamming. We consider deterministic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Lakshmi Anantharamu , Bogdan S. Chlebus , Dariusz R. Kowalski , Mariusz A. Rokicki

The problem of quality of service (QoS) and jamming-aware communications is considered in an adversarial wireless network subject to external eavesdropping and jamming attacks. To ensure robust communication against jamming, an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Nof Abuzainab , Tugba Erpek , Kemal Davaslioglu , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Yi Shi , Sharon J. Mackey , Mitesh Patel , Frank Panettieri , Muhammad A. Qureshi , Volkan Isler , Aylin Yener

In the framework of 5G-and-beyond Industry 4.0, jamming attacks for denial of service are a rising threat which can severely compromise the system performance. Therefore, in this paper we deal with the problem of jamming detection and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-04 Leonardo Chiarello , Paolo Baracca , Karthik Upadhya , Saeed R. Khosravirad , Silvio Mandelli , Thorsten Wild

We assume that a buffer-aided transmitter communicates with a receiving node in the presence of an attacker. We investigate the impact of a radio-frequency energy-harvesting attacker that probabilistically operates as a jammer or an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Ahmed El Shafie , Kamel Tourki , Zhiguo Ding , Naofal Al-Dhahir

The secondary control in direct current microgrids (MGs) is used to restore the voltage deviations caused by the primary droop control, where the latter is implemented locally in each distributed generator and reacts to load variations.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-09-26 Pietro Danzi , Cedomir Stefanovic , Lexuan Meng , Josep M. Guerrero , Petar Popovski

Optical networks are prone to physical layer attacks, in particular the insertion of high jamming power. In this paper, we present a study of jamming attacks in elastic optical networks (EON) by embedding the jamming into the physical layer…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Mounir Bensalem , Ítalo Brasileiro , André Drummond , Admela Jukan

Random Access Channel (RACH) jamming poses a critical security threat to 5G and beyond (B5G) networks. This paper presents an analytical model for predicting the impact of Msg1 jamming attacks on RACH performance. We use the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Wilfrid Azariah , Yi-Quan Chen , Zhong-Xin You , Ray-Guang Cheng , Shiann-Tsong Sheu , Binbin Chen

This paper presents a simple local medium access control protocol, called \textsc{Jade}, for multi-hop wireless networks with a single channel that is provably robust against adaptive adversarial jamming. The wireless network is modeled as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-07-12 Andrea Richa , Christian Scheideler , Stefan Schmid , Jin Zhang

Dense, unmanaged 802.11 deployments tempt saboteurs into launching jamming attacks by injecting malicious interference. Nowadays, jammers can be portable devices that transmit intermittently at low power in order to conserve energy. In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-06-18 Konstantinos Pelechrinis , Ioannis Broustis , Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy , Christos Gkantsidis

The effectiveness and simple implementation of physical layer jammers make them an essential threat for wireless networks. In a multihop wireless network, where jammers can interfere with the transmission of user messages at intermediate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Azadeh Sheikholeslami , Majid Ghaderi , Hossein Pishro-Nik , Dennis Goeckel