Frederik Jonathan Zumegen
ABSTRACT
Jamming attacks pose a serious threat to the normal functioning of cellular networks, disrupting communication services and compromising emergency situations. This paper introduces BeamArmor, a practical real-time application to monitor and mitigate jamming attacks in cellular networks. Hosted on a custom RAN controller utilizing the open-source srsRAN stack, it mitigates jamming by deploying beam-nulling techniques with MIMO antennas. This ensures reduced interference impact on desired communication signals. The system ensures real-time operation of the RAN stack by efficiently managing computational resources, meeting the time requirements of the cellular network's physical layer functionalities, and seamlessly integrating with srsRAN. The BeamArmor App is evaluated with over-the-air experiments that demonstrate over 10 dB of SNR improvement in real-time by suppressing the jamming signal through beam-nulling using only two antennas. Our broader vision includes expanding the BeamArmor platform to other real-time MIMO applications, such as advanced beamforming and localization techniques, and integrating it into O-RAN standards.
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Index Terms
- BeamArmor: Seamless Anti-Jamming in 5G Cellular Networks with MIMO Null-steering
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