HML-Based Smart Positioning of Fusion Center for Cooperative Communication in Cognitive Radio Networks

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 2261-2263 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Radio ◽  
Cognitive Radio Networks ◽  
Cooperative Communication ◽  
Radio Networks ◽  
Fusion Center

scholarly journals A Double Adaptive Approach to Tackle Malicious Users in Cognitive Radio Networks

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Sajjad Khan ◽  
Muhammad Jibran ◽  
Insoo Koo ◽  
Su Min Kim ◽  
Junsu Kim
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Radio ◽  
Spectrum Sensing ◽  
Cognitive Radio Networks ◽  
Cooperative Spectrum Sensing ◽  
Evidence Theory ◽  
Adaptive Threshold ◽  
Radio Networks ◽  
Maximal Ratio Combining ◽  
Fusion Center ◽  
Adaptive Approach

Cognitive radio (CR) is being considered as a vital technology to provide solution to spectrum scarcity in next generation network, by efficiently utilizing the vacant spectrum of the licensed users. Cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio network has a promising performance compared to the individual sensing. However, the existence of the malicious users’ attack highly degrades the performance of the cognitive radio networks by sending falsified data also known as spectrum sensing data falsification (SSDF) to the fusion center. In this paper, we propose a double adaptive thresholding technique in order to differentiate legitimate users from doubtful and malicious users. Prior to the double adaptive approach, the maximal ratio combining (MRC) scheme is utilized to assign weight to each user such that the legitimate users experience higher weights than the malicious users. Double adaptive threshold is applied to give a fair chance to the doubtful users to ensure their credibility. A doubtful user that fails the double adaptive threshold test is declared as a malicious user. The results of the legitimate users are combined at the fusion center by utilizing Dempster-Shafer (DS) evidence theory. Effectiveness of the proposed scheme is proved through simulations by comparing with the existing schemes.

A SSDF-Attack-Exclusion Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Scheme in Cognitive Radio Networks

2014 ◽  
Vol 556-562 ◽  
pp. 5219-5222
Author(s):  
Wei Wu ◽  
Xiao Fei Zhang ◽  
Xiao Ming Chen
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Radio ◽  
Utility Function ◽  
Spectrum Sensing ◽  
Cognitive Radio Networks ◽  
Cooperative Spectrum Sensing ◽  
Radio Networks ◽  
Fusion Center ◽  
Sensing Data ◽  
Single User ◽  
Simulation Results

Compared with the single user spectrum sensing, cooperative spectrum sensing is a promising way to improve the detection precision. However, cooperative spectrum sensing is vulnerable to a variety of attacks, such as the spectrum sensing data falsification attack (SSDF attack). In this paper, we propose a concise cooperative spectrum sensing scheme based on a reliability threshold. We analyze the utility function of SSDF attacker in this scheme, and present the least reliability threshold for the fusion center against SSDF attack. Simulation results show that compared with the traditional cooperative spectrum sensing scheme, the SSDF attacker has a much lower utility in our proposed scheme, which drives it not to attack any more.

scholarly journals Cooperative Communication in Cognitive Radio Networks under Asymmetric Information: A Contract-Theory Based Approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nan Zhao ◽  
Minghu Wu ◽  
Wei Xiong ◽  
Cong Liu
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Radio ◽  
Asymmetric Information ◽  
Cognitive Radio Networks ◽  
Cooperative Communication ◽  
Relay Selection ◽  
Contract Theory ◽  
Contract Design ◽  
Radio Networks ◽  
Spectrum Efficiency ◽  
Optimal Contract

By exploiting the spatial diversity of multiple wireless nodes, cooperative communication technique is a promising technique for spectrum sharing to improve spectrum efficiency. In this paper, the incentive issue between relay nodes’ (RNs’) service and source’s relay selection is investigated in the presence of the asymmetric information scenario. Multiuser cooperative communication is modelled as a labour market, where the source designs a contract and each relay node decides to select a contract item according to hidden information in order to obtain the best profit. The optimal contract design under both symmetric information and asymmetric information is presented based on contract theory. The contract-theoretic model for ability discrimination relay selection is formulated as an optimization problem to maximize the source’s utility. A sequential optimization algorithm is proposed to obtain the optimalrelay-rewardstrategy. Simulation results show that the optimal contract design scheme is effective in improving system performance for cooperative communication. This paper establishes a valuable cooperative communication mechanism in cognitive radio networks.

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