MIMO Techniques for Jamming Threat Suppression in Vehicular Networks

Kosmanos, Dimitrios; Prodromou, Nikolas; Argyriou, Antonios; Maglaras, Leandros A.; Janicke, Helge

Abstract

Vehicular ad hoc networks have emerged as a promising field of research and development, since they will be able to accommodate a variety of applications, ranging from infotainment to traffic management and road safety. A specific security-related concern that vehicular ad hoc networks face is how to keep communication alive in the presence of radio frequency jamming, especially during emergency situations. Multiple Input Multiple Output techniques are proven to be able to improve some crucial parameters of vehicular communications such as communication range and throughput. In this article, we investigate how Multiple Input Multiple Output techniques can be used in vehicular ad hoc networks as active defense mechanisms in order to avoid jamming threats. For this reason, a variation of spatial multiplexing is proposed, namely, vSP4, which achieves not only high throughput but also a stable diversity gain upon the interference of a malicious jammer.

Citation

Kosmanos, D., Prodromou, N., Argyriou, A., Maglaras, L. A., & Janicke, H. (2016). MIMO Techniques for Jamming Threat Suppression in Vehicular Networks. Mobile Information Systems, 2016, Article 8141204. https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/8141204

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 9, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Oct 27, 2016
• Publication Date: Oct 27, 2016
• Deposit Date: Dec 13, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 13, 2022
• Journal: Mobile Information Systems
• Print ISSN: 1574-017X
• Electronic ISSN: 1875-905X
• Publisher: Hindawi
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 2016
• Article Number: 8141204
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/8141204
• Keywords: Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Science Applications
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2969329