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Methods and systems for capturing signals in accordance with allocated resources

Method and system for capturing signals in accordance with allocated resources. One method includes receiving, from a server by a network interface of a first communication device located in a cell, identification information of a second communication device located in the cell. The method further includes receiving, from a base station by the network interface of the first communication device, a resource allocation message destined for the second communication device. The resource allocation message indicates a resource allocation for the second communication device on an uplink channel of the base station. The method further includes decoding, by an electronic processor of the first communication device, the resource allocation message using the identification information of the second communication device. The method further includes capturing, by the network interface of the first communication device, signals based on the resource allocation for the second communication device.

Ultra-wide band electromagnetic jamming projector
11632187 · 2023-04-18 · ·

A radio frequency (RF) jamming device includes a differential segmented aperture (DSA), a jammer source outputting a jamming signal at one or more frequencies or frequency bands to be jammed, and RF electronics that amplify and feed the jamming signal to the DSA so as to emit a jamming beam. The DSA includes an array of electrically conductive tapered projections, and the RF electronics comprise power splitters configured to split the jamming signal to aperture pixels of the DSA. The aperture pixels comprise pairs of electrically conductive tapered projections of the array of electrically conductive tapered projections. The RF electronics further comprise pixel power amplifiers, each connected to amplify the jamming signal fed to a single corresponding aperture pixel of the DSA. The RF jamming device may include a rifle-shaped housing, with the DSA mounted at a distal end of the barrel of the rifle-shaped housing.

Real-time detection of interfering device

In the method, a first device receives a mixed signal including a target signal from a target device among a plurality of second devices and an interfering signal from the plurality of second devices. The first device determines a distribution characteristic of an amplitude of the mixed signal within an amplitude variation range, the distribution characteristic being associated with the target device and an interfering device generating the interfering signal. The first device determines the interfering device from the plurality of second devices based on the distribution characteristic. An interfering device in a communication system may be detected in real-time and accurately.

Radio-based detector and method to protect against unpredictable interference in industrial wireless communications

A method, a node and a detector for detecting an interfering signal in a wireless network communication system comprising a network manager and several nodes, each node (202B) comprising a detector (204) for receiving input signals from at least one antenna, a delay component (205) for delaying a received input signal, and a receiver (206RX) for determining an energy pattern of expected received input signals. The detector (204) is configured to send an alarm signal to the receiver (206RX) depending on the presence or absence of an interfering signal from an interferer 203 and an active/inactive state of the receiver (206RX).

Remote slowing or stopping a progress of a drone towards a target

Systems, and method and computer readable media that store instructions for slowing or stopping a progress, towards a target, of a drone controlled by a remote control unit.

Device and method for anti-jamming using decoy signal

A device and method for anti jamming using a decoy signal are provided. The device may include a processor configured to allocate, in connection with a request for transmission of information, first frequency band to information signal including the information and allocate a second frequency band to the decoy signal including fake information associated with the information, and an outputter configured to output the decoy signal and the information signal at a predetermined time interval and output the information signal through the first frequency band after an attack on the second frequency band by the jammer that inspects the decoy signal is detected.

PROCESSING INFORMATION RELATED TO ONE OR MORE MONITORED AREAS

A method for processing information related to one or more monitored areas, the method may include receiving by a central control unit, UAV indicators about at least one unmanned airborne vehicle (UAV) located within the one or more monitored areas; wherein the UAV indicators are generated by a preprocessing step that comprises extracting information that is embedded within sensed UAV communication, the sensed UAV communication is sensed by at least one sensor of a group of sensors; aggregating, by a central control unit, the UAV indicators, to provide aggregated information; and responding to the aggregated information, wherein the responding comprises at least one out of (i) outputting the aggregated information, and (ii) storing the aggregated information.

ADJUSTABLE NULL STEERING IN A STATIONARY NETWORK
20220329345 · 2022-10-13 · ·

A null steering adjuster in a stationary wireless network identifies the presence or absence of a current set of phase differences in a dataset. The dataset includes legitimate sets of phase differences detected between radio frequency signals received by multiple antennas from respective legitimate sources. The current set of phase differences is detected between radio frequency signals currently received by the antennas. When the current set of phase differences is absent from the dataset, a null is created in the antenna pattern of the antennas in the direction of the currently-received radio frequency signals. When the current set of phase differences is present in the dataset, the antenna pattern is maintained.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRIGGERING AN ALARM DURING A SENSOR JAMMING ATTACK

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for triggering an alarm during a sensor jamming attack. In one aspect, a monitoring system sensor unit is disclosed that includes a sensor, a communication unit configured to communicate with a monitoring system using a range of frequencies, and a jamming detection unit. The jamming detection unit may include a processor and a computer storage media storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations. The operations include detecting a sensor jamming event, selecting a different form of communication other than the range of radio frequencies for the communication unit to communicate with the monitoring system, and providing, to the communication unit, an instruction to communicate with the monitoring system using the form of communication, wherein the communication unit may communicate, to the monitoring system using the form of communication, the sensor data.

Controlling data communication quality in software-defined heterogenous multi-hop ad hoc networks

Methods, devices and systems that use a control channel to coordinate quality of data communications in software-defined heterogenous multi-hop ad hoc networks are described. In some embodiments, an example apparatus for wireless communication in a network includes performing, using a control plane, network management functions over a control channel that has a first bandwidth, implements a frequency-hopping operation, and operates at in a first frequency band, and performing, using a data plane that is physically and logically decoupled from the control plane, data forwarding functions, based on a routing decision, over at least one data channel that has a second bandwidth and operates in a second frequency band different from the first frequency band.