Jammer Localization in Multi-Hop Wireless Network: A Comprehensive Survey

Abstract

Various security threats and corresponding countermeasures has been a major concern of the maintainers of multi-hop wireless networks (MHWNs) in recent years. This is accompanied with background advances in wireless link bandwidth and rapid growth deployment of wireless network. As one of the main security threats MHWN faces, jamming attack has attracted much attention since it is easy to launch and can cause severe damages to the network. Accurate jammer localization plays an essential role in applying various anti-jamming countermeasures and it has been a hot topic in recent years. This survey overviews the major recent works done in the field of jammer localization for MHWN. The major contribution of this paper is to present all the typical jammer localization schemes in a single literature along with comprehensive performance comparison by simulation with respect to time complexity, location accuracy, and communication overhead in various MHWN deployment environments. Besides, directions for future research are outlined. We hope this survey can provide insight into different research directions to improve jammer localization accuracy for future developments.