M-JAW: Mobility-Based Jamming Avoidance in Wireless Sensor Networks

In this work, we study the problem of jamming avoidance for ensuring quality-of-service (QoS) in terms of the network lifetime and overhead in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). We propose a mobility model using Single-Leader-Multiple-Followers Stackelberg game theory to avoid the jamming affected region. In the proposed model, the centralized unit (CU) identifies the jamming affected region based on the locations of the affected nodes and acts as the leader. On the other hand, the jamming affected nodes act as followers and decide the mobility pattern, including the angle of movement, while minimizing the energy consumption and delay in packet delivery. A scheme, named M-JAW, for ensuring QoS, while avoiding jammers in WSNs, is proposed using the stated game-theoretic mobility model. Using M-JAW, the energy consumption of the overall network reduces by up to 20.36%, and the network overload reduces by 44.13-50.12%, which, in turn, increases the lifetime of WSNs.