TY - GEN
T1 - Exact and Efficient Protective Jamming in SINR-based Wireless Networks
AU - Bojko, Dominik
AU - Klonowski, Marek
AU - Kowalski, Dariusz R.
AU - Marciniak, Mateusz
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported by Polish National Science Center grants 2018/29/B/ST6/02969 and 2017/25/B/ST6/02553, and by the National Science Foundation Grant No. 2131538.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - A majority of research in communication in wireless networks is devoted to maximizing information flow, improving connectivity, or making the system robust against physical perturbations such as jamming. In this work we study how intentional jamming can be used for assuring privacy of wireless communication under the popular Signal-to-Interference-plus- Noise-Ratio (SINR) model. The considered problem, called Zone-restriction with Max-coverage, is as follows: how to place a number of jamming stations in order to generate interference that block the signal of given genuine stations in a specified restricted area, i.e., by making the SINR value of the genuine stations' signal below a pre-defined threshold in that area. In the construction of algorithms, we aim at optimizing both the accuracy - by minimizing the impact of the jamming stations to the area of genuine communication and by maximizing their influence to the area that should be jammed, as well as the energy consumption of the jamming stations. We present several solutions in various settings of the network, which often lead to challenging analysis even in relatively simple cases. Among others, we show that, surprisingly, it is possible to jam arbitrarily large areas by jammers using total energy arbitrarily close to zero.
AB - A majority of research in communication in wireless networks is devoted to maximizing information flow, improving connectivity, or making the system robust against physical perturbations such as jamming. In this work we study how intentional jamming can be used for assuring privacy of wireless communication under the popular Signal-to-Interference-plus- Noise-Ratio (SINR) model. The considered problem, called Zone-restriction with Max-coverage, is as follows: how to place a number of jamming stations in order to generate interference that block the signal of given genuine stations in a specified restricted area, i.e., by making the SINR value of the genuine stations' signal below a pre-defined threshold in that area. In the construction of algorithms, we aim at optimizing both the accuracy - by minimizing the impact of the jamming stations to the area of genuine communication and by maximizing their influence to the area that should be jammed, as well as the energy consumption of the jamming stations. We present several solutions in various settings of the network, which often lead to challenging analysis even in relatively simple cases. Among others, we show that, surprisingly, it is possible to jam arbitrarily large areas by jammers using total energy arbitrarily close to zero.
KW - information hiding
KW - jamming
KW - SINR
KW - Wireless sensor networks
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U2 - 10.1109/MASCOTS53633.2021.9614261
DO - 10.1109/MASCOTS53633.2021.9614261
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85123203104
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society's Annual International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems, MASCOTS
BT - Proceedings - 29th International Symposium on the Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, MASCOTS 2021
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 29th International Symposium on the Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, MASCOTS 2021
Y2 - 3 November 2021 through 5 November 2021
ER -