Achieving RF Jamming with DSA-Enabled Cognitive Radio Swarms

Recent studies prove that the current method of statically allocating and assigning RF spectrum is restrictive and inefficient and identify Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) as a feasible alternative. The author defines a system design which implemenst a declarative policy language using Semantic Web technologies. Swarms of multi-band, reconfigurable Cognitive Radio (CR) technology with fast channel switching and real time spectrum sensing capabilities have been identified as candidates for Multi-Channel Jamming Electronic Attacks (EA). Past demonstrations have shown that a single CR can be deployed in an EA on 802.11 networks. To extend the behavior of CRs beyond single multi-channel jamming, this chapter introduces a system architecture design that relies on a minimal set of CR capabilities to reduce the cost of designing the system.