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Wireless communications systems are highly vulnerable to jamming. There is a large body of research demonstrating the potential of smart-jamming that targets specific mechanisms in a wireless stack. Many proactive mitigation techniques sacrifice performance for guaranteed robustness. In this work, we develop a proactive mitigation approach for multi-carrier wireless links. The approach is formulated within the framework of game theory. We show that the interaction between a multi-carrier multi-rate system (in particular OFDM) and a power-limited jammer can be formulated as a constrained zero-sum or a bimatrix game. We show that the Nash equilibrium strategies can be derived analytically and numerically and we apply them to the special case of IEEE 802.11 OFDM links.
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This assumption is not particularly restrictive since any infeasible data rate can be removed from \(\mathcal {R}\).
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Also see the discussion in Sect. 10.3 for more details.
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See the discussion in Sect. 10.3 for more details.
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This is equivalent to maximizing the average number of data bits per OFDM symbol or the average data rate per OFDM symbol.
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Throughout the rest of this chapter, whenever clear from the context, we refer to the vectors r, x and \(\widehat {\mathbf {x}}\) as the transmitter’s strategies interchangeably. In other cases, we explicitly mention which of the vector are being referred to.
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It can be shown that zero-sum games are special cases of the more general bimatrix games.
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In this paper, we limit out focus to linear constraints on players’ strategy sets and for convenience, we use the terms constrained games and linearly constrained games interchangeably.
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Firouzbakht, K., Noubir, G., Salehi, M. (2019). Multi-Carrier Jamming Mitigation: A Proactive Game Theoretic Approach. In: Wang, C., Lu, Z. (eds) Proactive and Dynamic Network Defense. Advances in Information Security, vol 74. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10597-6_10
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