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Selective Jamming of LoRaWAN using Commodity Hardware — mentioned by dbrgn

Sat, 12 Jan 2019 07:34:38 GMT

In general LoRa (and LoRaWan) are designed to be very resilient against interference, but targeted jamming seems possible: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.02141.pdf On the other hand, jamming is possible for most radio protocols. I'm pretty sure it's illegal though, even in the license free band. And LoRaWan in standard mode is inherently unreliable (unconfirmed packages by default). Using it for "passive" logging is fine, using it for critical "active" remote control maybe less so.

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Selective Jamming of LoRaWAN using Commodity Hardware — mentioned by friesen

Thu, 26 Jul 2018 15:57:50 GMT

While I can get behind many of the use cases for FOAM's proposed product, avoiding interference isn't one of them. LoRa is particularly susceptible to jamming. Given the frequencies used, accidental jamming by legally operating transmitters is a very real possibility. It also turns out that LoRaWAN is vulnerable to selective jamming, but I'm not sure whether or not FOAM is looking to make use of the LoRaWAN layer. https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.02141

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