Concealed jamming attach apparatus and method which use false acknowledgement frame

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11108491-B2
Application number	US-201816964956-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 12, 2018
Priority date	Jan 26, 2018
Publication date	Aug 31, 2021
Grant date	Aug 31, 2021

Abstract

According to one embodiment of the present invention, in a concealed jamming attack using a false acknowledgement frame, a jamming attack is performed at a point in time during which a data frame is transmitted between a transmission node and a reception node and a false acknowledgement frame is transmitted to the data frame transmission node, such that the data frame transmission node cannot detect a data transmission failure in a MAC layer because of the jamming attack, and thus a jamming attack can be concealed.

First claim

What are claimed are:

1. A device for performing a covert jamming using a fake ACK (acknowledge) frame, comprising:
a receiving unit configured to obtain a signal transmitted and received through a wireless communication network between a transmitting node and a receiving node,
a signal analysis unit configured to analyze information on the signal obtained by the receiving unit,
a transmitting unit configured to transmit a jamming frame to the receiving node through the wireless communication network and configured to transmit the fake ACK frame to the transmitting node through the wireless communication network, and
a jamming control unit configured to control the transmitting unit such that, in case the signal analyzed by the signal analysis unit includes a CTS (clear to send) frame, the jamming frame is transmitted to the receiving node at a point of time when the transmitting node transmits a data frame to the receiving node after the CTS frame, and that, in case the transmission of the data frame ends, the fake ACK frame notifying that the data frame has been normally received by the receiving node is transmitted to the transmitting node.

2. The device for performing the covert jamming using the fake ACK frame, according to claim 1 ,
wherein the CTS frame includes information on a data transmission time allocated from start of the data frame to transmission of the reception ACK frame notifying the reception acknowledgment of the data frame, and
wherein the jamming control unit controls the transmitting unit to identify a transmission end time of the data frame by subtracting the time allocated to a SIFS (short inter frame space) and the reception ACK frame from the data transmission time, and to transmit the fake ACK frame to the transmitting node after waiting for the time of the SIFS when the transmission end time arrives.

3. The device for performing the covert jamming using the fake ACK frame, according to claim 1 ,
wherein the CTS frame includes information on an address of the receiving node that receives the data frame and an address of the transmitting node, and
wherein the jamming control unit controls the transmitting unit to change a source address of the fake ACK frame to the address of the receiving node extracted from the CTS frame and to transmit the fake ACK frame to the transmitting node.

4. The device for performing the covert jamming using the fake ACK frame, according to claim 1 ,
wherein the jamming control unit controls the transmitting unit to transmit the jamming frame at the point of time when the data frame is transmitted, after waiting for the SIFS time when receiving the CTS frame.

5. A method for performing a covert jamming using a fake ACK frame, comprising the steps of:
receiving a signal transmitted and received through a wireless communication network between a transmitting node and a receiving node,
analyzing information on the signal received from the receiving unit,
in case the received signal is a CTS frame, transmitting a jamming frame to the wireless communication network at a point of time when a data frame is transmitted from the transmitting node to the receiving node after the CTS frame, and
in case the transmission of the data frame ends, transmitting the fake ACK frame notifying that the data frame has been normally received by the receiving node to the transmitting node.

6. The method for performing the covert jamming using the fake ACK frame, according to claim 5 ,
wherein the step of transmitting the fake ACK frame includes:
extracting a data transmission time allocated from start of the data frame from the CTS frame to transmission of the reception ACK frame notifying the reception acknowledgment of the data frame,
identifying a transmission end time of the data frame by subtracting the time allocated to a SIFS and the reception ACK frame from the data transmission time, and
transmitting the fake ACK frame after waiting for the time of the SIFS when the transmission end time arrives.

7. The method for performing the covert jamming using the fake ACK frame, according to claim 5 ,
wherein the CTS frame includes information on an address of the receiving node that receives the data frame and an address of the transmitting node, and
wherein a source address of the fake ACK frame is set to be changed to the address of the receiving node extracted from the CTS frame.

8. The method for performing the covert jamming using the fake ACK frame, according to claim 5 ,
wherein the jamming frame is transmitted to the wireless communication network at the point of time when the data frame is transmitted, after the SIFS time elapses when receiving the CTS frame.

Assignees

• Agency Defense Dev

Inventors

• Kim Woocheol
• Park Jaehyoung

Classifications

• H04K3/40 Primary

  Jamming having variable characteristics · CPC title

• H04W74/0816

  with collision avoidance · CPC title

• H04K3/00

  Jamming of communication; Counter-measures · CPC title

• H04L5/0055

  Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK (for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861) · CPC title

• H04K2203/18

  for wireless local area networks or WLAN · CPC title