TY - GEN
T1 - Jamming with power boost
T2 - 21st IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2015
AU - Chang, Sang Yoon
AU - Tran, Bao Anh N.
AU - Hu, Yih Chun
AU - Jones, Douglas L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2016/1/15
Y1 - 2016/1/15
N2 - Modern-day train operations rely on wireless communications. Unlike other mobile systems, the train vehicle operations are tightly interwound with and remain physically close to the railway and the trackside infrastructure, providing a suitable platform to deploy leaky-waveguide-based communication. Due to the train system's safety-critical application and its exposure to the public, it is critical to address security in train communications. To investigate the availability of leaky waveguide communications, we first study prior leaky waveguide implementations in train systems and, based on those studies, construct a model to characterize the path loss of inside-waveguide propagation and the repeater implementations. Using our model, we analyze the jamming impact and contrast with jamming in free space without a waveguide. As a result, we establish that jamming the waveguide takes advantage of the waveguide infrastructure to extend its impact beyond the traditional jamming range and breaks the spatial dependence on the jamming source.
AB - Modern-day train operations rely on wireless communications. Unlike other mobile systems, the train vehicle operations are tightly interwound with and remain physically close to the railway and the trackside infrastructure, providing a suitable platform to deploy leaky-waveguide-based communication. Due to the train system's safety-critical application and its exposure to the public, it is critical to address security in train communications. To investigate the availability of leaky waveguide communications, we first study prior leaky waveguide implementations in train systems and, based on those studies, construct a model to characterize the path loss of inside-waveguide propagation and the repeater implementations. Using our model, we analyze the jamming impact and contrast with jamming in free space without a waveguide. As a result, we establish that jamming the waveguide takes advantage of the waveguide infrastructure to extend its impact beyond the traditional jamming range and breaks the spatial dependence on the jamming source.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICPADS.2015.13
DO - 10.1109/ICPADS.2015.13
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84964678017
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - ICPADS
SP - 37
EP - 43
BT - Proceedings - 2015 IEEE 21st International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2015
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 14 December 2015 through 17 December 2015
ER -