Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 802.16 jammer with USRP/GnuRadio?

[Marcus Leech]

Stevie wrote:

> Traditional jamming is probably hard given the required power levels.
> Lin and Noubir (google for "On Link Layer Denial of Service in Data
> Wireless LANs") consider 802.11a and show that jamming just  one
> complete symbol will cause the frame to be retransmitted and so a
> pulsed jamming signal could be effective.
>
> You may want to take a look at the 802.16 working group document IEEE
> C802.16e-04/406. The author reviews a number of MAC layer attacks but
> also looks briefly at the carrier-sense PHY layer attacks. These
> attacks are very low power when compared to traditional jamming
> attacks and very effective. It looks like carrier-sense attacks would
> be doable with a suitable radio front end and a USRP could very easily
> do the job of generating the required carrier.
>
>  
Thanks for the pointer.  I've looked at most of the recent DRAFT 
documents out of
 the WG, but none of the interim work such as you mention.

> Kind regards,
>
> Steve
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