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OFDM receiver design with detection of jamming or interference in LDPC-coded transmission Cover

OFDM receiver design with detection of jamming or interference in LDPC-coded transmission

Open Access
|Dec 2025

Abstract

In this paper we present the design of our modified OFDM receiver design, which introduces a simple OFDM jamming detection method, usable for detecting several jamming attacks, including repeat-back-jamming style designs, previously deemed undetectable. This method depends on the presence of a compatible ECC, such as an LDPC, as it uses its iterative soft-decoder statistics as the basis for jamming or interference detection. The method is evaluated using our free and open source MATLAB OFDM+LDPC toolkit. Furthermore, the feasibility of the repeat-back jamming method is evaluated by measurements in a real, over-the-air radio transmission scenario with a Software-Defined Radio transmitter, receiver, and jammer implementation using USRP frontends. Measurements of the jammer latency, detrimental to the success of this attack, are presented.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jee-2025-0054 | Journal eISSN: 1339-309X | Journal ISSN: 1335-3632
Language: English
Page range: 524 - 532
Submitted on: Aug 20, 2025
Published on: Dec 6, 2025
Published by: Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 6 issues per year

© 2025 Tomáš Páleník, Viktor Szitkey, Martin Rakús, published by Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
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