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Contrary to interference which is unintended, jamming is intentionally created by an adversary in order to prevent the receiver from properly decoding the legitimate signal. It can cause severe denial of service by targeting channels carrying critical information. In this paper, we use multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology to eliminate the jamming signal in mobile smallcells. To achieve this, we combine spectral diversity together with beamforming. The receiver is equipped with two antennas receiving at two different frequencies, while the transmitter uses two uniform linear antennas arrays (ULA) each transmitting the signal at one of those frequencies. Based on a pre-calculated ratio of the jammer’s channels sensed by the receiver, jamming is suppressed from the output signal. In fact, beamforming weights associated to each antenna array are adequately adjusted in order to constructively combine the received signals. Conducted simulations prove the efficiency of the solution in mitigating the attack by achieving satisfying bit-error-rates (BER).
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Salhi, M., Boudriga, N. (2018). MIMO Beamforming Anti-jamming Scheme for Mobile Smallcell Networks. In: Boudriga, N., Alouini, MS., Rekhis, S., Sabir, E., Pollin, S. (eds) Ubiquitous Networking. UNet 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11277. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02849-7_28
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