Jamming Attacks and Anti-Jamming Strategies in Wireless Networks: A Comprehensive Survey

TL;DR

This comprehensive survey reviews various jamming attacks and anti-jamming strategies across multiple wireless network types, highlighting current challenges and proposing future research directions for resilient wireless communication systems.

Contribution

It provides an in-depth, comparative analysis of existing jamming and anti-jamming techniques, offering new insights into designing more resilient wireless networks.

Findings

Extensive review of jamming attacks across diverse wireless networks.

Analysis of existing anti-jamming strategies and their effectiveness.

Identification of promising future research directions in anti-jamming technologies.

Abstract

Wireless networks are a key component of the telecommunications infrastructure in our society, and wireless services become increasingly important as the applications of wireless devices have penetrated every aspect of our lives. Although wireless technologies have significantly advanced in the past decades, most wireless networks are still vulnerable to radio jamming attacks due to the openness nature of wireless channels, and the progress in the design of jamming-resistant wireless networking systems remains limited. This stagnation can be attributed to the lack of practical physical-layer wireless technologies that can efficiently decode data packets in the presence of jamming attacks. This article surveys existing jamming attacks and anti-jamming strategies in wireless local area networks (WLANs), cellular networks, cognitive radio networks (CRNs), ZigBee networks, Bluetooth networks, vehicular networks, LoRa networks, RFID networks, and GPS system, with the objective of offering a comprehensive knowledge landscape of existing jamming/anti-jamming strategies and stimulating more research efforts to secure wireless networks against jamming attacks. Different from prior survey papers, this article conducts a comprehensive, in-depth review on jamming and anti-jamming strategies, casting insights on the design of jamming-resilient wireless networking systems. An outlook on promising antijamming techniques is offered at the end of this article to delineate important research directions.