A Cross-Layer Analysis of Network Antifragility with RIS-assisted Links under Jamming Attacks

TL;DR

This paper explores how RIS-assisted communication links can be designed to be antifragile, gaining benefits from jamming attacks, and demonstrates their potential to enhance network resilience and throughput in adversarial environments.

Contribution

It introduces the concept of antifragility into network communication with RIS-assisted links under jamming, analyzing its feasibility and benefits across multiple network layers.

Findings

RIS-assisted links can be antifragile against jamming

Antifragility improves end-to-end network resilience

RIS integration enhances throughput under attack

Abstract

Antifragility is an economics term defined as measure of (monetary) benefits gained from the adverse events and variability of the markets. This paper integrates for the first time the antifragility into the network based on communication links with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) affected by a jamming attack. We analyze whether antifragility can be achieved for several jamming models. Beyond the link-level gains, the results reveal how antifragile RIS-assisted links can be integrated into multi-hop systems to improve end-to-end network resilience, connectivity, and throughput under adversarial effects.