Practical Realization of Reactive Jamming Attack on Long-Range Wide-Area Network.

Josip Šabić, Toni Perković, Dinko Begušić, Petar Šolić

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

Cybersecurity in Radio Frequency Technologies: A Scientometric and Systematic Review with Implications for IoT and Wireless Applications.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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4 authors.

Josip ŠabićFaculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture in Split, University of Split, 21000 Split, Croatia.ORCID 0009-0005-3531-4514

Toni PerkovićFaculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture in Split, University of Split, 21000 Split, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0001-8826-4905

Dinko BegušićFaculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture in Split, University of Split, 21000 Split, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0001-9282-205X

Petar ŠolićFaculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture in Split, University of Split, 21000 Split, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0002-3468-133X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

LoRaWANs are increasingly recognized for their vulnerability to various jamming attacks, which can significantly disrupt communication between end nodes and gateways. This paper explores the feasibility of executing reactive jammers upon detecting packet transmission using commercially available equipment based on software-defined radios (SDRs). The proposed approach demonstrates how attackers can exploit packet detection to initiate targeted interference, effectively compromising message integrity. Two distinct experimental setups, one using separate SDRs for reception and transmission, and another leveraging a single SDR for both functions, were used to evaluate attack efficiency, reaction times, and packet loss ratios. Our experiments demonstrate that both scenarios effectively jam LoRaWAN packets across a range of spreading factors and payload sizes. This finding underscores a pressing need for enhanced security measures to maintain reliability and counter sophisticated attacks.

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countermeasuresinternet of things (IoT)LoRaWANreactive jammingsecurity

Identifiers

PMID40285073

DOI10.3390/s25082383

PMCPMC12031409

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