Communication Through Jamming Over a Slotted ALOHA Channel

DOI10.1109/TIT.2008.929965MaRDI QIDQ3604885zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Sandeep Bhadra, Shreeshankar Bodas, Sanjay Shakkottai, Sriram Vishwanath

Publication date 24 February 2009

Published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.0558

zbMATH Keywords

covert channelALOHAindependent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) coding strategies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Channel models (including quantum) in information and communication theory (94A40) Authentication, digital signatures and secret sharing (94A62)

Abstract: This work derives bounds on the jamming capacity of a slotted ALOHA system. A system with n legitimate users, each with a Bernoulli arrival process is considered. Packets are temporarily stored at the corresponding user queues, and a slotted ALOHA strategy is used for packet transmissions over the shared channel. The scenario considered is that of a pair of illegitimate users that jam legitimate transmissions in order to communicate over the slotted ALOHA channel. Jamming leads to binary signaling between the illegitimate users, with packet collisions due to legitimate users treated as (multiplicative) noise in this channel. Further, the queueing dynamics at the legitimate users stochastically couples the jamming strategy used by the illegitimate users and the channel evolution. By considering various i.i.d. jamming strategies, achievable jamming rates over the slotted ALOHA channel are derived. Further, an upper bound on the jamming capacity over the class of all ergodic jamming policies is derived. These bounds are shown to be tight in the limit where the offered system load approaches unity.

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