Jamming-Resistant AAV Communications: A Multichannel-Aided Approach

Jamming cancellation is essential to reliable autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) communications in the presence of malicious jammers. In this letter, we develop a practical multichannel-aided jamming cancellation method to realize secure AAV communications. The proposed method is capable of simultaneously achieving timing/frequency synchronization as well as jamming cancellation. More importantly, our method does not need the signal’s/jammer’s channel state information. It only utilizes the knowledge of the legitimate sender’s preamble sequence that is available in existing communication protocols. We also analyze the length of the preamble sequence required for successful synchronization and signal recovery. Experimental results on the built hardware platform show that, with a two-antenna receiver, the proposed method can successfully decode the signal of interest even when the jamming signal is 40dB stronger than the communication signal.