Case Studies of Attacks over Adaptive Modulation Based Tactical Software Defined Radios

Table 1

Attack classes, associated attacks (in bold) and vulnerabilities.

Attack classes	Attacks/vulnerabilities
Radio control	Software injection; (i) Buffer overflow; (ii) Waveform download vulnerabilities; (iii) Start-up vulnerabilities
Personification	Replay; (i) Protocol vulnerabilities; Authentication break; GPS spoofing
Unauthorized data modification	Software injection; Hardware injection; (i) Implementation vulnerabilities; (ii) Hardware trojans; (iii) Device cloning
Unauthorized access to data	Hardware injection; Software injection; Traffic analysis attacks; Side-channel attacks; Fault-based attacks; Social engineering attacks
Denial of service	Hardware injection; Software injection; Jamming; Flooding