Using Millimeter-Wave Wireless Networks for Opportunistic Wiretapping and Jamming

This study presents a novel model for opportunistic wiretapping with jamming (OWJ) attacks in millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless networks, despite the fact that mmWave communication is resistant to traditional wiretapping attacks owing to its narrow transmission range and directivity. By taking advantage of the opportunity costs associated with wiretapping and jamming, an eavesdropper may use OWJ to launch a more dangerous assault. Additionally, we provide three OWJ assault realizations, with the distance-, path-, and received-power-related cost models serving as the primary determinants. First, we provide new approximation methods to describe the uneven distributions of wiretappers, jammers, and interferers under three OWJ conclusions. This will help us understand how the new assault affects the security of mmWave networks. We illustrate the network's security effectiveness under OWJ by deriving analytical formulas for the secrecy capacity of transmission using the findings of the node distributions. Last but not least, we provide comprehensive numerical findings to show how OWJ works and how this novel attack might worsen network security performance compared to pure wiretapping or jammer attacks.