A survey on security threats and detection techniques in cognitive radio networks

AG Fragkiadakis, EZ Tragos… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rapid proliferation of new technologies and services in the wireless domain,
spectrum scarcity has become a major concern. The allocation of the Industrial, Medical and …

Byzantine attack and defense in cognitive radio networks: A survey

L Zhang, G Ding, Q Wu, Y Zou, Z Han… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Byzantine attack in cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS), also known as the spectrum
sensing data falsification (SSDF) attack in the literature, is one of the key adversaries to the …

A survey of security challenges in cognitive radio networks: Solutions and future research directions

A Attar, H Tang, AV Vasilakos, FR Yu… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this survey, we present a comprehensive list of major known security threats within a
cognitive radio network (CRN) framework. We classify attack techniques based on the type …

Using cognitive radio for interference-resistant industrial wireless sensor networks: An overview

TM Chiwewe, CF Mbuya… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Industrial wireless sensor networks (IWSNs) have to contend with environments that are
usually harsh and time-varying. Industrial wireless technology, such as WirelessHART and …

Cognitive radios for dynamic spectrum access: from concept to reality

KG Shin, H Kim, AW Min… - IEEE Wireless …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article provides a comprehensive survey of cognitive radio technology, focusing on its
application to dynamic spectrum access, especially from the perspective of realizing …

Privacy-preserving crowdsourced spectrum sensing

X Jin, Y Zhang - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dynamic spectrum access is promising for mitigating worldwide wireless spectrum shortage.
Crowdsourced spectrum sensing (CSS) refers to recruiting ubiquitous mobile users to …

Secure collaborative sensing for crowd sourcing spectrum data in white space networks

O Fatemieh, R Chandra… - 2010 IEEE Symposium on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Collaborative Sensing is an important enabling technique for realizing opportunistic
spectrum access in white space (cognitive radio) networks. We consider the security …

Secure cooperative sensing in IEEE 802.22 WRANs using shadow fading correlation

AW Min, KG Shin, X Hu - IEEE transactions on Mobile …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cooperative (or distributed) sensing has been recognized as a viable means to enhance the
incumbent signal detection by exploiting the diversity of sensors. However, it is challenging …

Attack prevention for collaborative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks

L Duan, AW Min, J Huang… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Collaborative spectrum sensing is vulnerable to data falsification attacks, where malicious
secondary users (attackers) submit manipulated sensing reports to mislead the fusion …

Radio‐frequency fingerprinting for mitigating primary user emulation attack in low‐end cognitive radios

SU Rehman, KW Sowerby, C Coghill - IET communications, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, radio‐frequency (RF) fingerprinting has been proposed for mitigating primary user
emulation (PUE) attacks in cognitive radio networks (CRNs). The widespread practical …