Alleviating Reactive Bit Jamming in Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks are widely deployed and thus are suffering increasing threats such as reactive bit jamming attacks. Such jamming can be alleviated by coded transmissions. This paper derives an optimal redundancy level required for Reed-Solomon code based transmissions and unveils the monotonic characteristic of coded transmission efficiency with respect to frame size, jamming strength, as well as communication protocol stack overhead.