Jamming-Resistant AAV Communications: A Multichannel-Aided Approach

TL;DR

This paper presents a practical multichannel approach for jamming-resistant AAV communications that achieves synchronization and jamming cancellation without needing channel state information, even under strong jamming conditions.

Contribution

The paper introduces a novel multichannel jamming cancellation method that does not require channel state information and can operate effectively with minimal preamble length.

Findings

Successfully cancels jamming signals 40dB stronger than the communication signal

Achieves synchronization and decoding with a two-antenna receiver

Operates without channel state information

Abstract

Jamming cancellation is essential to reliable unmanned autonomous vehicle (AAV) communications in the presence of malicious jammers. In this paper, we develop a practical multichannel-aided jamming cancellation method to realize secure AAV communications. The proposed method is capable of simultaneously achieving timing/frequency synchronization as well as jamming cancellation. More importantly, our method does not need the signal's/jammer's channel state information. It only utilizes the knowledge of the legitimate sender's preamble sequence that is available in existing communication protocols. We also analyze the length of the preamble sequence required for successful synchronization and signal recovery. Experimental results on the built hardware platform show that, with a two-antenna receiver, the proposed method can successfully decode the signal of interest even when the jamming signal is $40$dB stronger than the communication signal.