Enabling short fragments for uncoordinated spread spectrum communication

Naveed Ahmed, Christina Pöpper, Srdjan Capkun

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Abstract

Uncoordinated spread spectrum (USS) protocols have been proposed for anti-jamming communication in wireless settings without shared secrets. The existing USS protocols assume that fragments of hundreds of bits can be transmitted on different channels in order to identify fragments that belong to the same message. However, such long transmissions are susceptible to reactive jamming. To address this problem, we present a protocol that allows the use of short fragments of a few bits only. This makes our scheme resilient to a large class of reactive jammers. We prove that reassembling the fragmented message is not only feasible but also efficient: it can be completed in polynomial time in the size of the message, even if the jammer is computationally resourceful. We demonstrate the protocol efficiency by simulating the reassembly process at the link layer under different design parameters.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationComputer Security, ESORICS 2014 - 19th European Symposium on Research in Compter Security, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages488-507
Number of pages20
EditionPART 1
ISBN (Print)9783319112022
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event19th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2014 - Wroclaw, Poland
Duration: Sep 7 2014Sep 11 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 1
Volume8712 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other19th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2014
Country/TerritoryPoland
CityWroclaw
Period9/7/149/11/14

Keywords

  • Anti-jamming
  • Spread-spectrum communication
  • Wireless Security

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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