Improving anti-jamming capability and increasing jamming impact with mobility control

Abstract--The impact of a jamming attack on wireless communication depends on a number of physical characteristics and network protocol parameters. In particular, it depends on the relative geometries of the adversarial network of jammers and the network under attack. Hence, changes in network geometry achieved through node and jammer mobility can have significant influence on the impact of a jamming attack. In this work, we investigate the use of mobility as a tool to allow both the adversarial network and the network under attack to reconfigure their geometry in an attempt to improve attack impact and protocol performance, respectively. We present a mobility control framework for use by nodes in the network under attack and by jammer in the adversarial network. We show that a number of factors can be incorporated into node and jammer mobility using the proposed framework.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: MASS
• Authors: Patrick Tague
• Keywords: Adversarial Network, Communications, Jammer Mobility, MASS 2010, Network Protocol Parameters