A measurement-driven anti-jamming system for 802.11 networks

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1208-1222

  Pelechrinis, Konstantinos ^a   Broustis, Ioannis ^b   Krishnamurthy, Srikanth V ^b   Gkantsidis, Christos ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

IEEE 802.11; jamming; power control; rate control

Indexed keywords

802.11 NETWORKS; 802.11A; 802.11N; ANTI-JAMMING; CARRIER SENSING; CONSERVE ENERGY; DESIRED SIGNAL; IEEE 802.11S; JAMMERS; LOW POWER; MESH NETWORK; MOBILE JAMMERS; NETWORK THROUGHPUT; PORTABLE DEVICE; RATE ADAPTATION; RATE CONTROLS; REINFORCEMENT SYSTEMS; TCP TRAFFIC;

CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS; MIMO SYSTEMS; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; POWER CONTROL; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; STANDARDS; TEST FACILITIES; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

JAMMING;

EID: 80051802775     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2011.2106139     Document Type: Article

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