Difference between revisions of "Jammer-Resilient Synchronization for Wireless Communications"

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Synchronization is a prerequisite for most communication schemes. It is usually a straightforward task, but not if there is an ongoing jamming attack.

Short Description

As wireless communication becomes an indispensable pillar of modern infrastructure, jamming attacks turn into a crucial security threat. The widespread adoption of safety-critical technologies such as autonomous driving or industry 4.0 will therefore depend (among many other things) on our ability to mitigate jammers.

We have already developed several novel methods for jammer mitigation [1], [2], but they all require successfull synchronization between the transmitter and the receiver to get off the ground. In the presence of a jammer, synchronization is obviously much harder to achieve than usually. So far, there are no methods for jammer-resilient synchronization reported in the open literature.

The goal of this project would therefore be to develop jammer-resilient methods for synchronization.

[1] G. Marti and C. Studer, "Joint Jammer Mitigation and Data Detection for Smart, Distributed, and Multi-Antenna Jammers," to be presented at IEEE ICC 2023

[2] G. Marti and C. Studer, "Universal MIMO Jammer Mitigation via Secret Temporal Subspace Embeddings," arXiv:2305.01260

Status: Available

Looking for a Semester/Master student

Contact: Gian Marti

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge in signal processing and/or digital communications

Familiarity with MATLAB

Character

20% Literature Research

40% Algorithm Development

40% Implementation and Evaluation

Professor

Christoph Studer

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