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In this letter, we investigate the anti-jamming defense problem in multi-user scenarios, where the coordination among users is taken into consideration. The Markov game framework is employed to model and analyze the anti-jamming defense…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Fuqiang Yao , Luliang Jia

Cellular systems are vulnerable to jamming attacks, especially smart jammers that choose their jamming policies such as the jamming channel frequencies and power based on the ongoing communication policies and network states. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-24 Xiaozhen Lu , Liang Xiao , Canhuang Dai , Huaiyu Dai

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

Wireless communication systems, such as wireless sensor networks and RFIDs, are increasingly adopted to transfer potential highly sensitive information. Since the wireless medium has a sharing nature, adversaries have a chance to eavesdrop…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Jialin Wan , Siyao Cheng , Shanshan Han , Jianzhong Li

Wireless communications are vulnerable against radio frequency (RF) jamming which might be caused either intentionally or unintentionally. A particular subset of wireless networks, vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANET) which incorporate a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Dimitrios Kosmanos , Dimitrios Karagiannis , Antonios Argyriou , Spyros Lalis , Leandros Maglaras

Reactive jammers pose a severe security threat to robotic-swarm networks by selectively disrupting inter-agent communications and undermining formation integrity and mission success. Conventional countermeasures such as fixed power control…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Bahman Abolhassani , Tugba Erpek , Kemal Davaslioglu , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Sastry Kompella

In this article, we introduce a novel deception strategy which is inspired by the "Borrowing Arrows with Thatched Boats", one of the most famous military tactics in the history, in order to defeat reactive jamming attacks for low-power IoT…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-25 Dinh Thai Hoang , Diep N. Nguyen , Mohammad Abu Alsheikh , Shimin Gong , Eryk Dutkiewicz , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

Efficient data transfers over high-speed, long-distance shared networks require proper utilization of available network bandwidth. Using parallel TCP streams enables an application to utilize network parallelism and can improve transfer…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Hasibul Jamil , Elvis Rodrigues , Jacob Goldverg , Tevfik Kosar

Smart jammer nodes can disrupt communication between a transmitter and a receiver in a wireless network, and they leave traces that are undetectable to classical jammer identification techniques, hidden in the time-frequency plane. These…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-29 Ozan Alp Topal , Selen Gecgel , Ender Mete Eksioglu , Gunes Karabulut Kurt

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

We consider capacity maximization in wireless networks under adversarial interference conditions. There are n links, each consisting of a sender and a receiver, which repeatedly try to perform a successful transmission. In each time step,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-07-24 Johannes Dams , Martin Hoefer , Thomas Kesselheim

Deep Reinforcement Learning based solution for jamming communications using Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum technology in a 16 channel radio environment is presented. Deep Q Network based transmitter continuously selects the next…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Andrii Grekhov , Volodymyr Kharchenko , Vasyl Kondratiuk

In quasi-static wireless networks characterized by infrequent changes in the transmission schedules of user equipment (UE), malicious jammers can easily deteriorate network performance. Accordingly, a key challenge in these networks is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Abdul Basit , Muddasir Rahim , Tri Nhu Do , Nadir Adam , Georges Kaddoum

In this paper, we study jamming attacks against wireless networks. Specifically, we consider a network of base stations (BS) or access points (AP) and investigate the impact of a fixed number of jammers that are randomly deployed according…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 SaiDhiraj Amuru , Harpreet S. Dhillon , R. Michael Buehrer

We present a method for separating collided signals from multiple users in the presence of strong and wideband interference/jamming signal. More specifically, we consider a massive connectivity setup where few, out of a large number of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-18 Milutin Pajovic , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Philip V. Orlik

In this article, the anti-jamming communication problem is investigated from a game-theoretic learning perspective. By exploring and analyzing intelligent anti-jamming communication, we present the characteristics of jammers and the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Luliang Jia , Nan Qi , Feihuang Chu , Shengliang Fang , Ximing Wang , Shuli Ma , Shuo Feng

This paper proposes to use Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) as a green jammer to attack a legitimate communication without using any internal energy to generate jamming signals. In particular, the IRS is used to intelligently reflect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Bin Lyu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Shimin Gong , Dusit Niyato , Dong In Kim

We address the resilience of future 6G MIMO communications by considering an uplink scenario where multiple legitimate transmitters try to communicate with a base station in the presence of an adversarial jammer. The jammer possesses full…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-15 Vlad C. Andrei , Xinyang Li , Ullrich J. Mönich , Holger Boche

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

A natural basis for the detection of a wireless random reactive jammer (RRJ) is the perceived violation by the detector (typically located at the access point (AP)) of the carrier sensing protocol underpinning many wireless random access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Ni An , Steven Weber