The broadcast nature of wireless network with sharing medium makes it particularly vulnerable to the jamming style of the denial of service attack, which is a great threat to network performance and security. In this paper, the state-of-the-art jamming metrics and jamming models are first analyzed, and the recent literatures on jamming attack are surveyed in detail in terms of jamming detection, defense and jammer localization. Finally, the possible future trends and key points about this issue are solved.