USD-FH: Jamming-resistant wireless communication using Frequency Hopping with Uncoordinated Seed Disclosure

Abstract--Spread spectrum techniques (e.g., Frequency Hopping (FH), Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS)) have been widely used for anti-jamming wireless communications. Such techniques require that communicating devices agree on a shared secret before communication. However, it is non-trivial for two devices that do not share any secret to establish one in presence of a jammer. Recently, several schemes relying on Uncoordinated Frequency Hopping (UFH) were proposed to allow two devices to establish a secret key using Diffie-Hellman (DH) key establishment protocol in presence of jammers. Unfortunately, all these schemes are limited in efficiency. In this paper, we propose a novel scheme named USDFH, which uses Uncoordinated Seed Disclosure in Frequency Hopping to establish a shared secret in presence of jammers. The basic idea is to transmit each DH key establishment message using a one-time pseudo-random hopping pattern and disclose the corresponding seed in an uncoordinated manner ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: MASS
• Authors: An Liu, Peng Ning, Huaiyu Dai, Yao Liu
• Keywords: Communications, Frequency Hopping, Hopping Pattern, MASS 2010, Wireless Communication