User cooperation to mitigate the jamming in OFDMA networks

Abstract

In this paper, jamming and anti-jamming in a time slotted orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) are investigated. The users of the network cooperate to mitigate the jamming effect. Interactions among the network users and the jammer are modeled by a mixed integer non-cooperative generalized game which is a NP-hard problem. To relax the problem, a new algorithm is proposed based on channel state information (CSI) to determine the transmission channels and the partners of users in the network. To solve the proposed game, an optimization problem is solved for each player considering the best response of the other player. Another generalized game is proposed to model the cooperation among users of the network. The latter game is transformed to an equivalent Quasi Variational Inequality (QVI). Then, a new gradient based algorithm is proposed by utilizing the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions to find the solution of the equivalent QVI. Then, solving the latter game and substituting the best related response, the solution of the former generalized game is also obtained. The convergence of the proposed algorithms, and the uniqueness related to the solution of the both generalized games are proven. Finally, the simulation results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed approach.