Combating jamming attacks in multi-channel IoT networks using game theory

Abstract

Jamming attacks are among the most widely used techniques to block and disturb legitimate communications. Several techniques are used in the literature to combat these attacks. However, most of them either require the increase in transmission power or the implementation of complex coordination schemes which are not feasible in limited resources Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Therefore, in this paper, a defending strategy against jamming attacks is designed for health monitoring IoT networks with multiple Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) slow fading channels. In particular, minimizing the worst case jamming effect on the IoT sensors communications is modeled as a Colonel Blotto game. By analyzing the Nash Equilibrium (NE) of the game, an anti-jamming power allocating strategy is proposed and is shown to be effective in combating jamming attacks without the need for extra power and resources.