Investigation of continuous wave jamming in an IEEE 802.15.4 network

Abstract

This paper presents how continuous wave jamming affects IEEE 802.15.4 network. To this end, an office-based measurement setup has been proposed. Within the measurement area, 25 nodes have been set up in order to create a IEEE 802.15.4 tree-based test network structure. A dedicated jamming device that generates and transmits a continuous wave signal has been developed. Several tests have been conducted and presented to demonstrate the network's vulnerability to jamming attacks for different jammer power levels and its positions across the scene.