Anonymous Jamming Detection in 5G with Bayesian Network Model Based Inference Analysis

Ying Wang, Shashank Jere, Soumya Banerjee, Lingjia Liu, Sachin Shetty, Shehadi Dayekh

Abstract: Jamming and intrusion detection are some of the most important research domains in 5G that aim to maintain use-case reliability, prevent degradation of user experience, and avoid severe infrastructure failure or denial of service in mission-critical applications. This paper introduces an anonymous jamming detection model for 5G and beyond based on critical signal parameters collected from the radio access and core network’s protocol stacks on a 5G testbed. The introduced system leverages both supervised and unsupervised learning to detect jamming with high-accuracy in real time, and allows for robust detection of unknown jamming types. Based on the given types of jamming, supervised instantaneous detection models reach an Area Under the Curve (AUC) within a range of 0.964 to 1 as compared to temporal-based long short-term memory (LSTM) models that reach AUC within a range of 0.923 to 1. The need for data annotation effort and the required knowledge of a vocabulary of known jamming limits the usage of the introduced supervised learning-based approach. To mitigate this issue, an unsupervised auto-encoder-based anomaly detection is also presented. The introduced unsupervised approach has an AUC of 0.987 with training samples collected without any jamming or interference and shows resistance to adversarial training samples within certain percentage. To retain transparency and allow domain knowledge injection, a Bayesian network model based causation analysis is further introduced.