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To Eavesdrop or Jam, That is the Question

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Physical layer secret communication is evaluated by the secrecy rate/capacity, which loosely is the Alice-Bob communication rate minus the Alice-Eve communication rate. Eve’s objective is to reduce the secrecy rate and typically this is accomplished by eavesdropping, but it also can be accomplished by Eve directing interference at Bob, reducing the Alice-Bob channel rate. We examine secret communication from Eve’s perspective, where she can either eavesdrop or jam, but not both simultaneously. There are costs and advantages associated with these two options, and to explore the selection between these two options, we apply a game-theoretical approach. We find the equilibrium strategies for two scenarios: (a) Alice and Eve have to decide the probability for which each can apply On/Off power strategies in choosing between eavesdropping and jamming options, (b) Alice and Eve tune transmission/jamming powers and Eve chooses either a single-level or bi-level mode for interfering with the Alice-Bob communication. We show in the tuned-power scenario that Eve prefers either pure jamming or a mixed strategy over pure eavesdropping. We show the concave dependence of Eve’s payoff on the eavesdropping fading channel gain. Surprisingly, we find that both Eve and Alice-Bob can benefit for a small range of eavesdropping channel gains when Eve switches from pure jamming to a mixed strategy.

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    The authors note that the problem of whether the adversary should eavesdrop or jam on a multi-channel system in a zero-sum scenario with signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) as throughput has been explored by the authors [14], and the single-channel case in nonzero-sum scenario remarkably different from the earlier studied multi-channel zero-sum case.

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    Andrey Garnaev

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  2. University of Paris Est Creteil (UPEC), Vitry sur Seine, France

    Abdelhamid Mellouk

  3. Communications Research Centre Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Jun Li

  4. Bologna, Italy

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Garnaev, A., Trappe, W. (2014). To Eavesdrop or Jam, That is the Question. In: Sherif, M., Mellouk, A., Li, J., Bellavista, P. (eds) Ad Hoc Networks. ADHOCNETS 2013. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 129. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04105-6_10

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