Survey on Jamming Wireless Networks: Attacks and Prevention Strategies

Wireless networks are built upon the open shared medium which makes easy for attackers to conduct malicious activities. Jamming is one of the most serious security threats to information economy and it must be dealt efficiently. Jammer prevents legitimate data to reach the receiver side and also it seriously degrades the network performance. The objective of this paper is to provide a general overview of jamming in wireless network. It covers relevant works, different jamming techniques, various types of jammers and typical prevention techniques. Challenges associated with comparing several anti-jamming techniques are also highlighted.

Authors:

• S. Raja Ratna
• R. Ravi

Keywords:

• Channel
• Cryptography
• Frequency
• Jamming
• Legitimate
• Security
• Wavelength.

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