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Anti-jamming for embedded wireless networks

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Pajic, M; Mangharam, R
Published in: Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2009. IPSN 2009. International Conference on
April 2009

Resilience to electromagnetic jamming and its avoidance are difficult problems. It is often both hard to distinguish malicious jamming from congestion in the broadcast regime and a challenge to conceal the activity patterns of the legitimate communication protocol from the jammer. In the context of energy-constrained wireless sensor networks, nodes are scheduled to maximize the common sleep duration and coordinate communication to extend their battery life. This results in well-defined communication patterns with possibly predictable intervals of activity that are easily detected and jammed by a statistical jammer. We present an anti-jamming protocol for sensor networks which eliminates spatio-temporal patterns of communication while maintaining coordinated and contention-free communication across the network. Our protocol, WisperNet, is time-synchronized and uses coordinated temporal randomization for slot schedules and slot durations at the link layer and adapts routes to avoid jammers in the network layer. Through analysis, simulation and experimentation we demonstrate that WisperNet reduces the efficiency of any statistical jammer to that of a random jammer, which has the lowest censorship-to-link utilization ratio. WisperNet has been implemented on the FireFly sensor network platform.

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Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2009. IPSN 2009. International Conference on

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April 2009

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301 / 312
 

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Pajic, M., & Mangharam, R. (2009). Anti-jamming for embedded wireless networks. In Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2009. IPSN 2009. International Conference on (pp. 301–312).
Pajic, M., and R. Mangharam. “Anti-jamming for embedded wireless networks.” In Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2009. IPSN 2009. International Conference On, 301–12, 2009.
Pajic M, Mangharam R. Anti-jamming for embedded wireless networks. In: Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2009 IPSN 2009 International Conference on. 2009. p. 301–12.
Pajic, M., and R. Mangharam. “Anti-jamming for embedded wireless networks.” Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2009. IPSN 2009. International Conference On, 2009, pp. 301–12.
Pajic M, Mangharam R. Anti-jamming for embedded wireless networks. Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2009 IPSN 2009 International Conference on. 2009. p. 301–312.

Published In

Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2009. IPSN 2009. International Conference on

Publication Date

April 2009

Start / End Page

301 / 312