Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security

2011 Edition
| Editors: Henk C. A. van Tilborg, Sushil Jajodia

Uncoordinated Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum

  • Srdjan Capkun
Reference work entry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5906-5_65

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Definition

Uncoordinated Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (UFHSS) is a spread spectrum communication technique where the sender and the receiver hop between communication channels that they choose randomly and independently from a public set of channels. Neither the receiver nor the attacker knows the channel sequence used by the sender prior to communication. It was introduced by Strasser, Popper, Capkun and Cagalj.

Background

Spread Spectrum (SS) techniques represent a common way to achieve jamming-resistant communication. Spread spectrum techniques use data-independent, random sequences to spread a narrowband information signal over a wide (radio) band of frequencies. Under the premise that it is hard or infeasible for an attacker to jam the entire frequency band, the receiver can correlate the received signal with a replicate of the random sequence to retrieve the original information...

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Recommended Reading

  1. 1.
    Strasser M, Pöpper C, Capkun S, Cagalj M (2008) Jamming-resistant key establishment using uncoordinated frequency hopping. In: Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE symposium on security and privacy, Oakland, 18–21 May 2008. SPIEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, pp 64–78. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SP.2008.9Google Scholar

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Srdjan Capkun
    • 1
  1. 1.System Security Group, Department of Computer ScienceETH ZurichZürichSwitzerland