ISSN (Print) : 0974-6846

Indian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol 9(37), DOI: 10.17485/ijst/2016/v9i37/95125, October 2016 ISSN (Online) : 0974-5645

Design of Automated Dual B and 4G Jammer

using MATLAB Simulink
T. Chetan Sai, A. G. Dinesh Kumar, V. Charan and S. Ramya*
School of Electronics Engineering, IIIP, VIT University, Near Katpadi Road, Vellore - 632014,
Tamil Nadu, India; ramya.sekar@vit.ac.in, chetansai.tutika@gmail.com,
a.dineshkumar2014@vit.ac.in, vallapanenicharan@gmail.com

Abstract
This paper presents a design of efficient smart jammer to jam the 4G signals, specifically band 3 and band 40 which can
be predominantly used in India. The MATLAB Simulink tool was used for the analysis of the circuit design. Simulink, an
advanced tool gives accurate results comparable to real time analysis. The DSP toolbox of the Simulink library has been
largely used to construct and view the results of the model. The main objective of this paper is to receive the LTE signals,
filter band 3 and band 40, add noise and increase the amplitude of the signal. The uniqueness of this design is the use of full
wave rectifier in the circuit and the trigger enabled blocks. Full wave rectifier with added circuitry acts as a trigger to the
jammer which contains the noise block and the gain block. Sine wave generators were used to replicate real time signals
and additional signals were added as noise. The advantage of the design is when none of the bands are detected; the output
will not be generated, thus saving power. The incorporation of the detector circuit and trigger circuit ensures that power
is not wasted by the jamming circuit when there signal is not detected. These jammers can be used in examination halls,
conference halls and in secure location where telecommunication signals are unwanted.

Keywords: Band 3 (FDD-LTE), Band 40 (TDD-LTE), Dual Band, 4G, Jammer, MATLAB SIMULINK

1. Introduction and EMI Shield Passive Jamming for prohibiting

mobile phones from ringing ins particular areas2,3. The
Long Term Evolution (LTE), the fourth generation mobile phone jammers limit the mobile phone usage by
technology for mobile broadband suffers from loss of transmitting radio waves on same frequencies as mobile
communication and data. The overhead linked with the communication frequencies, producing interference
practical applications are due to augmented signalling and making the phones unusable4,5. There are numerous
traffic. The unwanted users take advantage of this traffic techniques to jam Radio Frequency (RF) signals like
and cause severe overload disturbing authentic users Spoofing, Shielding attacks, Denial of service etc6-9.
to access the network. To secure the communication MATLAB toolboxes such as DSP toolboxes have been
technology, the jammers are invented for military and used and also Graphical User Interface (GUI) can be used
civilian applications. A mobile phone jammer prevents to display data10. Simulation has become a very important
mobile phones receiving signals from the base stations. tool in analysing, optimizing and designing of circuits11.
These devices are used in places wherever a phone call The toolboxes are mostly used for research purpose to
would be mostly troublesome1. There are other jamming handle and control the scheduling issues in real time
devices like Intelligent Cellular Disablers, Intelligent systems. Using toolboxes it is possible to evaluate and
Beacon Disablers, Direct Transmit and Receive Jammers modify the circuit design and hardware platforms to
better understanding of the timing and performance12.

* Author for correspondence

 Design of Automated Dual Band 4G Jammer using MATLAB Simulink

In this paper, design and implementation of a new in detection subsystem and are filtered according to the
4G dual band jammer for jamming mobile phone bandwidths. Separate filters are used to detect uplink and
communication in 4G bands is presented. It blocks Band downlink frequencies of the band. The uplink frequencies
3 (Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) – LTE) and are used as input to the trigger which outputs a constant
Band 40 (Time Division Duplexing (TDD) – LTE). There DC voltage. The downlink frequencies are amplified and
are various multiple access techniques like Time Division then added with noise and transmitted. The triggering
Multiple Access (TDMA) in which multiple users can circuit consists of a full wave rectifier, a switch and a 5V
send data in separate time slots in same frequency, DC supply connected to the switch. The switch works as a
Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) where comparator to compare input voltage with fixed threshold
many users can send data at the same time in separate value. If the input is greater than threshold value, the
frequencies and the last one is Code Division Multiple output 5V supply is connected to it. The filtered signal
Access (CDMA) where many users can send data at after passing through the full wave rectifier are always
same time and in same frequency using different codes13. more than 1V. On passing through the switch of threshold
Frequency Division Multiplexing (FDM) channelizing is voltage 1V, outputs a 5V DC voltage if the amplitude of the
used to assign channels according to the patterns for least rectified wave is greater than 1V or else the output is 0V.
average energy cost14. The bands predominantly used in The voltage from the trigger circuit enables the jamming
India, band 3 and band 40 are jammed effectively using circuit. The 5V supply from the trigger circuit enables
this technique. The proposed technique is simple and the subsystem (subsystem works only if it is triggered by
cost effective. The designed jammer consists of detection positive voltage) which amplifies and adds noise to the
circuit to detect the uplink frequency; once it is detected, signal and transmits it. If there is no trigger, the output
the downlink signal is jammed. The trigger circuit is set will be 0V making the jammer circuit to be inactive.
up, to switch on the circuit only when signal is detected, If a particular frequency is detected by the filters,
thus reducing power conversion, the jamming circuit is then the triggering circuit gets triggered and enables the
triggered by the voltage from trigger circuit which adds jammer. Hence, power consumption is reduced. Figure
noise and amplifies the signal before transmitting. 1 shows the overall circuit of the jammer. The detector
circuit with filters tuned to the specific uplink and
downlink frequencies of Band 3 (FDD-LTE) and Band 40
2. Design and Methodology (TDD-LTE) are shown in Figure 2. For the 4G band 3,
Primarily, any signal in the surroundings will be picked the uplink and downlink frequencies are 1710-1785 Hz
up by an antenna, which would then channel the signal and 1805-1880 Hz, respectively. For the 4G band 40, the
into a suitable microcontroller containing the coding uplink and downlink frequency is 2300-2400 Hz. Figure
part of the design. The signals to be jammed are isolated 3 shows the trigger circuit used to enable the jammer
by frequency filters. These signals, if present in the circuit. The Table 1 presents the stop band and pass band
surroundings, trigger the modulator and act as an input frequencies used by the filters used in detection circuit.
to the modulating circuit. In these modulators, the input
is modulated with a random noise signal and the power
of resultant output signal is then amplified. The amplified
signal is picked up by the electronic devices instead of the
original signal and thus, the desired signal is jammed.
MATLAB Simulink was used for simulating the
design. The proposed circuit design is divided into three
parts namely Detection, Triggering and Jamming. The
circuit comprises sine wave generators which represent
the mobile signals present in real world, detection circuit
(subsystem), trigger circuit (subsystem 1, subsystem 3),
jammer circuit (subsystem 2, subsystem 6), time scopes
and power GUI block. Signal passes through the filters Figure 1. Circuit overview of the proposed Jammer..

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3GHz, respectively. Figure 8 is the output of jammer 1 and

jammer 2 in voltage versus time graph by giving input 1
containing frequencies out of band 3 and band 40. The
graph shows 0V as frequencies detected by the device are
out of the dual bands 3 and 40. Figure 9 shows the output
of jammer 1 when input 2 containing band 3 and random
frequencies are used. It shows a distorted signal with
higher voltage than the original signal. Jammer 1 displays
output since it is associated with filter which detects band
Figure 2. Detection circuit. 3 of 4G spectrum. Figure 10 is the output of jammer 2,
showing 0V output as the jammer 2 is associated with
jamming of band 40 signals. Figure 11 is the output of
trigger 1 of constant voltage of 5V which is used to trigger
jammer 1.
The input 3 containing band 40 and random
frequencies are applied to jammer and trigger and the
results are analysed. Figure 12 represents the output of
jammer 2 which shows a distorted signal with higher
voltage than the original signal. The Jammer 2 shows
output because it is associated with filter which detects
band 40 of 4G spectrum. Figure 13 is the output of jammer
1 and it shows 0V output as jammer 1 is associated with
Figure 3. Trigger circuit. jamming of band 3 signals. The output of trigger 2
showing a constant voltage of 5V which is used to trigger
Table 1. Cut off frequencies of the Filters
jammer 2 is presented in Figure 14. The input 4 which
Filter Band pass 1 Band pass 2 Centre
contains band 40, band 3 and random frequencies are
number (MHz) (MHz) frequency
applied and the results are shown in Figure 15. Figures
(MHz)
15 (a) and 15 (b) are the outputs of jammer 1 and jammer
1 1710 1880 1795
2 showing distorted signal with higher voltage than the
2 1710 1785 1747.5
original signal. Jammer 1 and jammer 2 shows output
3 1805 1880 1842.5
because they are associated with filter detecting band 3
4 2305 2405 2355
and band 40 of 4G spectrum, respectively. The simulation
results clearly describe that the proposed 4G jammer
blocks Band 3 and Band 40 efficiently.
3. Simulation Results and
Discussion
In this section, the simulated results are presented and
analysed. The Figure 4, Figure 5, Figure 6 and Figure 7
shows the input frequencies 1, 2, 3 and 4, respectively
used for the simulation. Figure 4 (input 1) and Figure 5
(input 2) represents the signals with frequencies 1.2 GHz,
1.5 GHz, 1.6 GHz, 3GHz and 1.2GHz, 1.74 GHz, 1.85
GHz, 3GHz, respectively. Figure 6 (input 3) and Figure
7 (input 4) shows signals with frequencies 1.2 GHz, 1.3 Figure 4. Input frequencies of values 1.2 GHz, 1.5
GHz, 2.34 GHz, 3GHz and 1.74 GHz, 1.85 GHz, 2.34 GHz, GHz, 1.6 GHz, 3 GHz. (Legend: x axis = frequency in
GHz, y axis = power in decibels).

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Figure 9. Output signal of trigger 1 for input 2. (Legend:

Figure 5. Input frequencies of values 1.2 GHz, 1.74 x axis = time in 10-7 seconds, y axis = voltage in volts).
GHz, 1.85 GHz, 3 GHz. (Legend: x axis = frequency in
GHz, y axis = power in decibels).

Figure 10. Output of jammer 1 for input 2. (Legend:

x axis = time in 10-7 seconds, y axis = voltage in volts)
in volts).
Figure 6. Input frequencies of values 1.2 GHz, 1.3 GHz,
2.34 GHz, 3 GHz (Legend: x axis = frequency in GHz, y
axis = power in decibels).

Figure 11. Output of jammer 2 for input 2. (Legend:

x axis = time in 10-7 seconds, y axis = voltage in volts).
in volts).

Figure 7. IInput frequencies of values 1.74 GHz,

1.85 GHz, 2.34 GHz, 3 GHz. (Legend: x axis =
frequency in GHz, y axis = power in decibels).

Figure 12. Output of trigger 2 for input 3. (Legend: x axis

= time in 10-7 seconds, y axis = voltage in volts).

Figure 8. Output voltages of jammer 1 and jammer 2

for input 1 (Legend: x axis = time in 10-7 seconds, y axis
= voltage in volts).

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circuit are designed and implemented using MATLAB

SIMULINK based on the principle of Denial of service.
The proposed jammer blocks LTE signals especially
Band 3 and Band 40. The full wave rectifier is used for
triggering the jammer circuit to jam the signals and is
a promising method to significantly trigger the jammer
circuit. The Gaussian and Rayleigh noises are added and
finally jamming of LTE signals are achieved. The designed
Figure 13. Output signal of jammer 2 for input 3. jammer is most promising in LTE mobile communication
(Legend: x axis = time in 10-7 seconds, y axis = voltage applications.
in volts).

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