A survey on jamming attacks and countermeasures in WSNs

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 42-56

  Mpitziopoulos, Aristides ^a   Gavalas, Damianos ^a   Konstantopoulos, Charalampos ^b   Pantziou, Grammati ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

DSSS; FHSS; Jamming; Wireless sensor networks; ZigBee

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS; CRITICAL ISSUES; DSSS; JAMMERS; JAMMING TECHNIQUE; OUT OF ORDER; RESEARCH ISSUES; SECURITY MECHANISM; SECURITY THREATS; ZIG-BEE;

COMMUNICATION; JAMMING; MACHINE DESIGN; NETWORK SECURITY; RESEARCH; SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 72949104155     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2009.090404     Document Type: Article

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