Fast Distributed Backbone Construction Despite Strong Adversarial Jamming

Abstract

This paper studies jamming-resilient distributed backbone construction in multi-hop wireless networks. Specifically, a strong adversarial jamming model is proposed that captures the general jamming phenomena suffered by wireless communications. The jamming model is based on the realistic Signal-to-Interference-plus-Noise-Ratio (SINR) interference model, and is featured by local-uniformity, unrestricted energy budget and reactivity, which covers more jamming scenarios and is much closer to reality than existing jamming models. Under the strong adversarial jamming model, we propose a randomized distributed algorithm that can construct a backbone in J(O(log n + logR)) rounds with high probability, where J(O(log n + log R)) is the number of rounds in the interval from the beginning of the algorithm execution that contains O(log n + log R) unjammed rounds for every node. This result is asymptotically optimal considering the trivial lower bound of Ω(log n) for a successful transmission even without interference and jamming.