Unjammable: A Practical Approach to Jamming-Safe Wireless Channels

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Abstract

Communication systems are delicate to deliberate jamming, which may ruin legitimate communication. Two kinds of jammers exist: partial knowledge and full knowledge jammers. Jammers with partial knowledge only know the encoding and decoding functions, whereas jammers with full knowledge also know the actual message. This paper studies the detectability of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks by jammers with partial knowledge. The theoretical framework that characterizes the detectability of a DoS attack is expressed in the literature for Turing machines with no computing capacity scarcity. Even though there is no computational limitation for Turing machines, they cannot decide if a DoS attack is possible. Conversely, by following the theoretical framework, Turing machines can recognize an Arbitrarily Varying Channel (AVC) which a DoS attack is not possible. In these circumstances, we present an algorithm that detects the scenarios where DoS attack is impossible. We provide a complexity analysis and perform Monte Carlo simulations to investigate the performance of the proposed algorithm in terms of time consumption. We observe that the simulation results are compatible with the complexity analysis.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGLOBECOM 2024 - 2024 IEEE Global Communications Conference
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages1010-1014
Number of pages5
ISBN (electronic)979-8-3503-5125-5
Publication statusPublished - 2024
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesIEEE Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM)
ISSN1930-529X

Conference

Title2024 IEEE Global Communications Conference
SubtitleConnecting the Intelligent World through Africa
Abbreviated titleGLOBECOM 2024
Duration8 - 12 December 2024
Website
LocationCape Town International Conference Centre
CityCape Town
CountrySouth Africa

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0001-8469-9573/work/184003928

Keywords

Keywords

  • arbitrarily-varying channels (AVC), denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, Turing machines, Wireless communication