An experimental study on jamming tolerance of 3G/WCDMA

Jarno Pinola; Jarmo Prokkola; Esa Piri

doi:10.1109/MILCOM.2012.6415651

An experimental study on jamming tolerance of 3G/WCDMA

Jarno Pinola, Jarmo Prokkola, Esa Piri

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Abstract

The use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies in military environment is attractive, but in tactical communications, one of the biggest challenges is the jamming/interference tolerance of the deployed systems. Interference tolerance is important also in public authority and in some special civilian wireless network set-ups. We present an experimental measurement-based study on jamming tolerance of wireless third generation (3G) / Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) links in controlled laboratory environment. The performance is evaluated in cross-layer oriented fashion in order to find out how physical layer (PHY) interference affects the system performance at higher layers. We study the effect of PHY radio frequency jamming with wideband noise and also test more sophisticated link layer jamming, where selected WCDMA channels are jammed individually. The results show that, in general, COTS WCDMA is robust against jamming. Especially an ongoing circuit switched (CS) call tolerates high interference levels. Additional findings are also reported related to the network attachment procedure, Short Message Service (SMS) and effectiveness of link layer jamming.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Proceedings of the Military Communications Conference, MILCOM 2012
Publisher	IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Pages	1004-1010
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4673-1731-3
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4673-1729-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.2012.6415651
Publication status	Published - 2012
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	IEEE Military Communications Conference, MILCOM 2012 - Orlando, FL, United States Duration: 29 Oct 2012 → 1 Nov 2012

Conference

Conference	IEEE Military Communications Conference, MILCOM 2012
Abbreviated title	MILCOM 2012
Country/Territory	United States
City	Orlando, FL
Period	29/10/12 → 1/11/12

Keywords

3G mobile communication
jamming
military communication
performance evaluation
radio frequency interference
spread spectrum communication

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Pinola, J, Prokkola, J & Piri, E 2012, An experimental study on jamming tolerance of 3G/WCDMA. in The Proceedings of the Military Communications Conference, MILCOM 2012. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 1004-1010, IEEE Military Communications Conference, MILCOM 2012, Orlando, FL, United States, 29/10/12. https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.2012.6415651

An experimental study on jamming tolerance of 3G/WCDMA. / Pinola, Jarno; Prokkola, Jarmo; Piri, Esa.
The Proceedings of the Military Communications Conference, MILCOM 2012. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 2012. p. 1004-1010.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific › peer-review

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