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Jamming LoRa and Evaluation of Ease of Implementation

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The number of wirelessly connected devices are on the rise. With increasingly capable devices becoming cheaper and more accessible, the threat towards these radio communications is steadily growing. One of the more common technologies in the low power and long range realm of these devices is LoRaWAN. With a selection of different readily available hardware, we have examined if it is possible to conduct jamming attacks on LoRa. We have also evaluated the ease of implementation, and found that it is possible for less technically proficient persons to carry out effective jamming attacks on LoRa of different complexities using affordable hardware and open-source software.

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Notes

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    www.github.com/SodaqMoja/Sodaq_RN2483, accessed on the 15th of January 2023.

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    www.github.com/osmocom/gr-osmosdr, accessed on the 19th of January 2023.

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    www.github.com/sandeepmistry/arduino-LoRa, accessed on the 18th january 2023.

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    https://github.com/jgromes/RadioLib, accessed on the 21st January.

  5. 5.

    “Compat.” means compatibility in terms of LoRa PHY.

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  1. Cibicom, Ballerup, Denmark

    Jonas Stenholt Melchior Jensen

  2. Danish Data Protection Agency, Valby, Denmark

    Bjørn Alexander Wade Patterson

  3. DIS Study Abroad in Scandinavia, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Tomasz Blaszczyk

  4. Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

    Birger Andersen

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Jensen, J.S.M., Patterson, B.A.W., Blaszczyk, T., Andersen, B. (2024). Jamming LoRa and Evaluation of Ease of Implementation. In: Pereira, T., Impagliazzo, J., Santos, H., Chen, J. (eds) Internet of Everything. IOECON 2023. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 551. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51572-9_3

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