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ESWORD: Implementation of Wireless Jamming Attacks in a Real-World Emulated Network
Wireless jamming attacks have plagued wireless communication systems and will
continue to do so going forward with technological advances. These attacks fall
under the category of Electronic Warfare (EW), a continuously growing area in
both attack and defense of the electromagnetic spectrum, with one subcategory
being electronic attacks. Jamming attacks fall under this specific subcategory
of EW as they comprise adversarial signals that attempt to disrupt, deny,
degrade, destroy, or deceive legitimate signals in the electromagnetic
spectrum. While jamming is not going away, recent research advances have
started to get the upper hand against these attacks by leveraging new methods
and techniques, such as machine learning. However, testing such jamming
solutions on a wide and realistic scale is a daunting task due to strict
regulations on spectrum emissions. In this paper, we introduce eSWORD, the
first large-scale framework that allows users to safely conduct real-time and
controlled jamming experiments with hardware-in-the-loop. This is done by
integrating eSWORD into the Colosseum wireless network emulator that enables
large-scale experiments with up to 50 software-defined radio nodes. We compare
the performance of eSWORD with that of real-world jamming systems by using an
over-the-air wireless testbed (ensuring safe measures were taken when
conducting experiments). Our experimental results demonstrate that eSWORD
follows similar patterns in throughput, signal-to-noise ratio, and link status
to real-world jamming experiments, testifying to the high accuracy of the
emulated eSWORD setup.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figures, 1 table. IEEE Wireless Communications and
Networking Conference (WCNC), Glasgow, Scotland, March 202