Anti-eavesdropping shelter for protection of wireless communication

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9800367-B1
Application number	US-201715432898-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Feb 14, 2017
Priority date	Feb 14, 2017
Publication date	Oct 24, 2017
Grant date	Oct 24, 2017

Abstract

A method improves an anti-eavesdropping (AE)-shelter that emits interference signals that protect communication between legitimate transmitters and legitimate receivers in the AE-shelter. The method includes determining a circular boundary for the AE-shelter; improving the AE-shelter by uniformly placing a number of jammers at the boundary; tuning emitting power of the jammers; and improving a coverage area of the interference signals.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method that improves an anti-eavesdropping (AE)-shelter that emits wireless interference signals that protect wireless communication between legitimate transmitters and legitimate receivers within the AE-shelter, the method comprising:
determining a circular boundary for the AE-shelter;
improving the AE-shelter by uniformly placing a number of jammers at the circular boundary with a jamming range r j for each jammer;
tuning emitting power P J of the jammers so that power of interference signal at distance r j from the jammers is not lower than a predetermined threshold T j to enable jamming of the wireless communication; and
improving a coverage area of the wireless interference signals such that the jamming range of one jammer does not overlap with the jamming range of another jammer and such that the jamming range of all of jammers covers an entirety of the circular boundary.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
calculating expectation E(r j ) of r j by:

E
⁡

(

r
j

)

=

1
α

·

(

P
j

μ
⁢

⁢

T
j

)

1
α

·

Γ
⁡

(

1
α

)

where α is path loss factor, μ is Rayleigh fading factor, Γ denotes standard gamma function.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the number of the jammers has a upper bound N,
where N is bounded by

⌈

2
⁢
π

2
⁢

⁢
θ

⌉

=

⌈

π
θ

⌉

θ
=

arcsin
⁡

(

E
⁡

(

r
j

)

R

)

and R is the radius of the circular boundary.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
emitting artificial noise from the jammers to prevent eavesdroppers located outside of the circular boundary of the AE-shelter from receiving readable signals generated by the legitimate transmitters located inside of the circular boundary of the AE-shelter.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein a signal-to-interference-noise ratio SINR C at the legitimate receivers located inside of the circular boundary of the AE-shelter is no less than T C which is a threshold of receiving power for a successful reception.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein SINR C is defined as:

P
t

·

h
0

·

r

-
α

σ
2

+

I
t

+

I
j
c

where P t is transmitting power of the legitimate transmitters, h 0 is Rayleigh factor, r is distance from the legitimate transmitters, σ 2 denotes Gaussian noise level, I t is cumulative interference power from the legitimate transmitters and I j c is cumulative interference power from the jammers.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
transmitting jamming instructions to all of the jammers, wherein the jamming instructions include instructions of varying a frequency of the wireless interference signals, timing of the wireless interference signals, and symbols of the wireless interference signals.

8. An improved anti-eavesdropping (AE) shelter that generates wireless interference signals to protect wireless communication between legitimate transmitters and legitimate receivers, the improved AE-shelter comprising:
an improved geometrical structure including a circular boundary and a number of jammers that are constructed with the wireless interference signals generators to generate the wireless interference signals, wherein the circular boundary surrounds the legitimate transmitters and the legitimate receivers, and the jammers are uniformly located at the circular boundary with jamming range r j for each jammer;
an improved coverage area of the wireless interference signals including a non-overlapped jamming range of the jammers that covers an entirety of the circular boundary; and
a power control unit that electrically connects to the jammers and tunes emitting power P J of the jammers so that power of the wireless interference signals at distance r j from the jammers is not lower than a predetermined threshold T j to enable jamming of the wireless communication.

9. The improved AE-shelter of claim 8 , wherein expectation E(r j ) of r j is calculated by:

E

Assignees

• Univ Macau Sci & Tech

Inventors

• Dai Hong-Ning
• Li Xuran
• Wang Qiu
• Vasilakos Athanasios V

Classifications

• H04K3/46

  characterized in that the jamming signal is produced by retransmitting a received signal, after delay or processing · CPC title

• H04W4/021

  Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences · CPC title

• H04K3/825

  by jamming · CPC title

• H04K3/42

  characterized by the control of the jamming frequency or wavelength · CPC title

• H04K3/28 Primary

  with jamming and anti-jamming mechanisms both included in a same device or system, e.g. wherein anti-jamming includes prevention of undesired self-jamming resulting from jamming · CPC title