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Wireless communications are vulnerable to signal jamming attacks. Spread spectrum mitigates these attacks by spreading normal narrowband signals over a much wider band of frequencies and forcing jammers who do not know the spreading pattern to expend much more effort to launch the attack. In broadcast systems, however, jammers can easily find out the spread pattern by compromising just a single receiver. Several group-based ideas have been proposed to deal with compromised receivers; they can tolerate up to t malicious receivers by adding 2t extra copies for each broadcast message. In this paper, we propose a novel scheme with random channel sharing. This scheme reduces the communication cost from 2t to (1 + p)t extra copies, where p determines the channel sharing probability (0 < p < 1). In addition, it does not increase the hardware complexity as it does not require a receiver to operate on multiple channels at the same time.
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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CNS-0916221. We also thank anonymous reviewers for their feedback, which has helped to improve the paper.
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A preliminary version of this paper appeared in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2010.
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Dong, Q., Liu, D. & Wright, M. Mitigating jamming attacks in wireless broadcast systems. Wireless Netw 19, 1867–1880 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-013-0574-0
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