Short paper: Reactive jamming in wireless networks - How realistic is the threat?

WiSec'11 - Proceedings of the 4th ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 47-52

  Wilhelm, Matthias ^a   Martinovic, Ivan ^a   Schmitt, Jens B ^a   Lenders, Vincent ^b  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^b Armasuisse ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

802.15.4; Reactive jamming; Software defined jammer; WSN

Indexed keywords

802.15.4; HIGH PRECISION; IEEE 802.15.4 NETWORKS; JAMMERS; JAMMING STRATEGIES; PHYSICAL LAYERS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; REACTIVE JAMMING; REAL TIME REQUIREMENT; SOFTWARE-DEFINED JAMMER; STEPPING STONE; WSN;

NETWORK SECURITY; STANDARDS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

JAMMING;

EID: 80051886930     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1998412.1998422     Document Type: Conference Paper

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