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Competitive throughput in multi-hop wireless networks despite adaptive jamming

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This article presents a simple local medium access control protocol, called Jade, for multi-hop wireless networks with a single channel that is provably robust against adaptive adversarial jamming. The wireless network is modeled as a unit disk graph on a set of nodes distributed arbitrarily in the plane. In addition to these nodes, there are adversarial jammers that know the protocol and its entire history and that are allowed to jam the wireless channel at any node for an arbitrary \((1-\epsilon )\)-fraction of the time steps, where \(0<\epsilon <1\) is an arbitrary constant. We assume that nodes can perform collision detection (unless they are transmitting themselves), but that they cannot distinguish between jammed transmissions and collisions of regular messages. Nevertheless, we show that Jade achieves an asymptotically optimal throughput by efficiently exploiting the unpredictable time periods in which the medium is available.

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  1. In this article, disks (and later sectors) will refer both to 2-dimensional areas in the plane as well as to the set of nodes in the respective areas. The exact meaning will become clear in the specific context.

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  1. Computer Science and Engineering, SCIDSE, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA

    Andrea Richa & Jin Zhang

  2. Universität Paderborn, 33102 , Paderborn, Germany

    Christian Scheideler

  3. Telekom Innovation Laboratories (T-Labs), Technische Universität Berlin, 10587 , Berlin, Germany

    Stefan Schmid

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A preliminary version of this article appeared at the 24th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), 2010. Research is partly supported by NSF grants CCF-1116368 and CCF-0830704, as well as by DFG grants DFG SFB 901 and DFG SCHE 1592/2-1.

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Richa, A., Scheideler, C., Schmid, S. et al. Competitive throughput in multi-hop wireless networks despite adaptive jamming. Distrib. Comput. 26, 159–171 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00446-012-0180-x

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