Open AccessWireless Network Behaviour during Jamming Attacks: Simulation using OPNET
Author(s) -
Hadeel S. Obaid
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1530/1/012009
Subject(s) - jamming , denial of service attack , computer network , computer science , wireless network , wireless , channel (broadcasting) , computer security , telecommunications , thermodynamics , physics , the internet , world wide web
Jamming-style attacks can be launched easily on wireless networks because they are built upon a shared medium. These attacks can be performed by emitting radio frequency signals. These signals do not follow an underlying MAC protocol and can highly interfere with the normal operation of wireless networks. Jamming attacks represent the denial of service attack in wireless networks. In this paper, we have used OPNET Modeler to perform jamming attacks to investigate wireless network behavior. The results showed that the investigated jamming attacks can cause severe performance degradation into wireless networks and jamming attack is successfully avoided by using channel switching technique.