title: On Performance Analysis of Protective Jamming Schemes in Wireless Sensor Networks.
abstract: Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) play an important role in Cyber Physical Social Sensing (CPSS) systems. An eavesdropping attack is one of the most serious threats to WSNs since it is a prerequisite for other malicious attacks. In this paper, we propose a novel anti-eavesdropping mechanism by introducing friendly jammers to wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In particular, we establish a theoretical framework to evaluate the eavesdropping risk of WSNs with friendly jammers and that of WSNs without jammers. Our theoretical model takes into account various channel conditions such as the path loss and Rayleigh fading, the placement schemes of jammers and the power controlling schemes of jammers. Extensive results show that using jammers in WSNs can effectively reduce the eavesdropping risk. Besides, our results also show that the appropriate placement of jammers and the proper assignment of emitting power of jammers can not only mitigate the eavesdropping risk but also may have no significant impairment to the legitimate communications.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Information Technology, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China. 1509853dii30001@student.must.edu.mo.
authors.forename: Xuran
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Information Technology, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China. hndai@ieee.org.
authors.forename: Hong-Ning
authors.initials: HN
authors.lastname: Dai
authors.affiliation: Big Data Lab, Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Aalesund, 6009 Aalesund, Norway. hawa@ntnu.no.
authors.forename: Hao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Computer, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China. wh_red@gdut.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Xiao
keywords: analysis; friendly jamming; security; wireless sensor networks