Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate secure interference management in a wireless communication system. Techniques are described herein to enable a terminal jammed by a nearby base station to submit a request to the nearby base station to set aside interlaces and/or other communication resources while preventing attacks wherein such requests are submitted arbitrarily. As described herein, a base station receiving a request for reservation of resources can require proof that an entity requesting the reservation is actually jammed by the base station by constructing and transmitting a signal using random number and/or other information such that the information can be correctly decoded only at or above a minimum signal quality. A tiered technique is additionally described herein, wherein multiple signals are constructed and transmitted such that the respective signals are correctly decodable at varying signal quality thresholds.