Visible to the public Moving-target defense mechanisms against source-selective jamming attacks in tactical cognitive radio MANETs

TitleMoving-target defense mechanisms against source-selective jamming attacks in tactical cognitive radio MANETs
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2014
AuthorsMarttinen, A., Wyglinski, A.M., Jantti, R.
Conference NameCommunications and Network Security (CNS), 2014 IEEE Conference on
Date PublishedOct
KeywordsAd hoc networks, address manipulation, Cognitive radio, Communication system security, computer network security, delays, flipped address mechanism, interference suppression, jamming, military communication, mobile ad hoc networks, mobile computing, moving target defense mechanism, parameter selection, probability, random address assignment, reliable communication, seamless communication, secure communication, source MAC address, source selective jammer block transmission, source selective jamming attack combation, tactical cognitive radio MANET, telecommunication network reliability, Wireless communication
Abstract

In this paper, we propose techniques for combating source selective jamming attacks in tactical cognitive MANETs. Secure, reliable and seamless communications are important for facilitating tactical operations. Selective jamming attacks pose a serious security threat to the operations of wireless tactical MANETs since selective strategies possess the potential to completely isolate a portion of the network from other nodes without giving a clear indication of a problem. Our proposed mitigation techniques use the concept of address manipulation, which differ from other techniques presented in open literature since our techniques employ de-central architecture rather than a centralized framework and our proposed techniques do not require any extra overhead. Experimental results show that the proposed techniques enable communications in the presence of source selective jamming attacks. When the presence of a source selective jammer blocks transmissions completely, implementing a proposed flipped address mechanism increases the expected number of required transmission attempts only by one in such scenario. The probability that our second approach, random address assignment, fails to solve the correct source MAC address can be as small as 10-7 when using accurate parameter selection.

URLhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6997460/?arnumber=6997460
DOI10.1109/CNS.2014.6997460
Citation Key6997460