Adaptive Routing for Cognitive Jamming Detection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Wireless networks are vulnerable to intelligent cognitive jamming, which disrupts routing performance by targeting control packets and is difficult to detect due to its smart interference patterns, leading to severe degradation even under benign conditions.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for dynamic routing that includes a jammer characterization engine to detect and classify network protocol-aware cognitive jammer behaviors, and PACJAM-Aware Adaptive Routing to adapt routing strategies and avoid affected nodes and routes, ensuring robust data delivery under extreme cognitive jamming environments.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If cognitive jamming is used to disrupt control packets, then routing performance is degraded, but detection difficulty increases due to smart interference patterns

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverouting performanceVSAvoidjammer detection difficulty
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The system changes the 'color' or characteristics of jamming signals by analyzing signal properties such as frequency, power, and temporal patterns. The jammer characterization engine transforms raw RF signals into classified jamming behavior categories, enabling detection and differentiation of various jamming types through signal feature analysis

Inventive Principle:
Principle #32Color changes

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where routing decisions are continuously adjusted based on detected jamming behaviors. The adaptive routing component uses real-time jamming detection data to modify routing strategies, creating a closed-loop system that responds to changing network conditions and maintains reliability under jamming attacks

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If adaptive routing strategies are implemented to avoid jammed routes, then data delivery robustness is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata delivery robustnessVSAvoidrouting system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The routing system is segmented into distinct functional modules: a jammer characterization engine for signal analysis, a behavior classification component for pattern recognition, and an adaptive routing component for decision-making. This modular segmentation allows each component to specialize in specific tasks, improving overall system manageability and reducing complexity through functional decomposition

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The routing strategies are made dynamic and adaptive rather than static. The system continuously adjusts routing decisions based on real-time jamming detection and classification, allowing the network to respond flexibly to changing conditions. This dynamic adaptation improves robustness without requiring overly complex predetermined routing tables

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Measurement precision

If jammer signal scanning is performed continuously, then jammer detection accuracy is improved, but energy consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvejammer detection accuracyVSAvoidenergy consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system employs periodic scanning of jammer signals rather than continuous monitoring. The jammer characterization engine performs signal analysis at intervals, classifying jamming behaviors based on observed patterns. This periodic approach maintains detection accuracy by capturing essential jamming characteristics while reducing energy consumption compared to continuous scanning

Inventive Principle:
Principle #19Periodic action

Data Source

PatentEP2806604B1Dynamic Routing Under Extreme Cognitive Jamming Environments
Publication Date: 2017.11.01 THE BOEING CO
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AI summary

A system and methods for dynamic routing under extreme cognitive jamming environments are presented. Jammer signals emitted by a network protocol-aware cognitive jammer are scanned for at a router node in an ad-hoc wireless network, and jammer behaviors are detected based on signal characteristics of the jammer signals. A network dynamic pattern caused by the network protocol-aware cognitive jammer is classified based on the detected jammer behaviors observed over a period of time, and dynamic routing strategies of the first router node are adapted to achieve robust data delivery based on the network behavioral pattern. Data packets sent by the router node are routed to avoid nodes and routes that are affected by the jammer signals.