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In radio communications, jamming is defined as the intentional prevention of communication by the use of electromagnetic signals. Jamming resistance techniques provide resilience to jamming attacks when the attacker has limited transmission power and therefore cannot prevent communication on all available communication frequencies simultaneously.
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Jamming resistance has been considered already in the early 1900s. Nikola Tesla discussed it in 1903 in two US patents; in those patents he also described jamming resistance techniques similar to frequency hopping. In 1908, a German radio pioneer Johannes Zenneck mentioned frequency hopping in his book Wireless Telegraphy. Several other inventions of frequency hopping have later followed of which the 1942 US patent by the actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil is the most well known. The books by...
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Capkun, S. (2011). Jamming Resistance. In: van Tilborg, H.C.A., Jajodia, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5906-5_54
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