Non-Uniform Transmission Scheduling Under Jamming in a Mobile Ad Hoc Network Model: An ns-3 Simulation Study

Paper 17 in The Geometry of the Critical Line programme. We test whether non-uniform spatial phase offsets applied to packet transmission scheduling across nodes of a mobile ad hoc network (MANET) reduce vulnerability to radio-frequency jamming. The hypothesis is motivated by the spectral-smearing mechanism identified in forced Kuramoto networks (Paper 11), where aperiodic spatial phase offsets suppress synchronisation lock-in by 80–100 percentage points. Using the ns-3 network simulator, we model a 50-node MANET under three threat models (barrage, sweep, and follower jamming) with six scheduling patterns (uniform, sinusoidal, prime-indexed, golden-ratio LDS, van der Corput, and random-fixed) across 7 jammer…