344 research outputs found
Byzantine Attack and Defense in Cognitive Radio Networks: A Survey
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 success of cognitive radio networks (CRNs). In the
past couple of years, the research on the Byzantine attack and defense
strategies has gained worldwide increasing attention. In this paper, we provide
a comprehensive survey and tutorial on the recent advances in the Byzantine
attack and defense for CSS in CRNs. Specifically, we first briefly present the
preliminaries of CSS for general readers, including signal detection
techniques, hypothesis testing, and data fusion. Second, we analyze the spear
and shield relation between Byzantine attack and defense from three aspects:
the vulnerability of CSS to attack, the obstacles in CSS to defense, and the
games between attack and defense. Then, we propose a taxonomy of the existing
Byzantine attack behaviors and elaborate on the corresponding attack
parameters, which determine where, who, how, and when to launch attacks. Next,
from the perspectives of homogeneous or heterogeneous scenarios, we classify
the existing defense algorithms, and provide an in-depth tutorial on the
state-of-the-art Byzantine defense schemes, commonly known as robust or secure
CSS in the literature. Furthermore, we highlight the unsolved research
challenges and depict the future research directions.Comment: Accepted by IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutoiral
A Study on Techniques/Algorithms used for Detection and Prevention of Security Attacks in Cognitive Radio Networks
In this paper a detailed survey is carried out on the taxonomy of Security Issues, Advances on Security Threats and Countermeasures ,A Cross-Layer Attack, Security Status and Challenges for Cognitive Radio Networks, also a detailed survey on several Algorithms/Techniques used to detect and prevent SSDF(Spectrum Sensing Data Falsification) attack a type of DOS (Denial of Service) attack and several other  Network layer attacks in Cognitive Radio Network or Cognitive Radio Wireless Sensor Node Networks(WSNN’s) to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of those existing algorithms/techniques
Spectrum Sensing and Security Challenges and Solutions: Contemporary Affirmation of the Recent Literature
Cognitive radio (CR) has been recently proposed as a promising technology to improve spectrum utilization by enabling secondary access to unused licensed bands. A prerequisite to this secondary access is having no interference to the primary system. This requirement makes spectrum sensing a key function in cognitive radio systems. Among common spectrum sensing techniques, energy detection is an engaging method due to its simplicity and efficiency. However, the major disadvantage of energy detection is the hidden node problem, in which the sensing node cannot distinguish between an idle and a deeply faded or shadowed band. Cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) which uses a distributed detection model has been considered to overcome that problem. On other dimension of this cooperative spectrum sensing, this is vulnerable to sensing data falsification attacks due to the distributed nature of cooperative spectrum sensing. As the goal of a sensing data falsification attack is to cause an incorrect decision on the presence/absence of a PU signal, malicious or compromised SUs may intentionally distort the measured RSSs and share them with other SUs. Then, the effect of erroneous sensing results propagates to the entire CRN. This type of attacks can be easily launched since the openness of programmable software defined radio (SDR) devices makes it easy for (malicious or compromised) SUs to access low layer protocol stacks, such as PHY and MAC. However, detecting such attacks is challenging due to the lack of coordination between PUs and SUs, and unpredictability in wireless channel signal propagation, thus calling for efficient mechanisms to protect CRNs. Here in this paper we attempt to perform contemporary affirmation of the recent literature of benchmarking strategies that enable the trusted and secure cooperative spectrum sensing among Cognitive Radios
Detection And Prevention Of Types Of Attacks Using Machine Learning Techniques In Cognitive Radio Networks
A number of studies have been done on several types of data link and network layer attacks and defenses for CSS in CRNs, but there are still a number of challenges unsolved and open issues waiting for solutions. Specifically, from the perspective of attackers, when launching the attack, users have to take into account of the factors of attack gain, attack cost and attack risk, together.  From the perspective of defenders, there are also three aspects deserving consideration: defense reliability, defense efficiency and defense universality. The attacks and defenses are mutually coupled from each other. Attackers need to adjust their strategies to keep their negative effects on final decisions and avoid defenders’ detection, while defenders have to learn and analyze attack behaviors and designs effective defense rules. Indeed, attack and defense ought to be considered together. the proposed methodology overcomes the problems of several data link and network layer attacks and it effects in CSS(Co-operative Spectrum Sensing) of CNRs using Machine Learning based Defense, Cross layers optimization techniques and Defence based Prevention mechanisms
Spectrum sharing security and attacks in CRNs: a review
Cognitive Radio plays a major part in communication technology by resolving the shortage of the spectrum through usage of dynamic spectrum access and artificial intelligence characteristics. The element of spectrum sharing in cognitive radio is a fundament al approach in utilising free channels. Cooperatively communicating cognitive radio devices use the common control channel of the cognitive radio medium access control to achieve spectrum sharing. Thus, the common control channel and consequently spectrum sharing security are vital to ensuring security in the subsequent data communication among cognitive radio nodes. In addition to well known security problems in wireless networks, cognitive radio networks introduce new classes of security threats and challenges, such as licensed user emulation attacks in spectrum sensing and misbehaviours in the common control channel transactions, which degrade the overall network operation and performance. This review paper briefly presents the known threats and attacks in wireless networks before it looks into the concept of cognitive radio and its main functionality. The paper then mainly focuses on spectrum sharing security and its related challenges. Since spectrum sharing is enabled through usage of
the common control channel, more attention is paid to the
security of the common control channel by looking into its
security threats as well as protection and detection mechanisms. Finally, the pros and cons as well as the comparisons of different CR - specific security mechanisms are presented with some open research issues and challenges
Resilient Learning-Based Control for Synchronization of Passive Multi-Agent Systems under Attack
In this paper, we show synchronization for a group of output passive agents
that communicate with each other according to an underlying communication graph
to achieve a common goal. We propose a distributed event-triggered control
framework that will guarantee synchronization and considerably decrease the
required communication load on the band-limited network. We define a general
Byzantine attack on the event-triggered multi-agent network system and
characterize its negative effects on synchronization. The Byzantine agents are
capable of intelligently falsifying their data and manipulating the underlying
communication graph by altering their respective control feedback weights. We
introduce a decentralized detection framework and analyze its steady-state and
transient performances. We propose a way of identifying individual Byzantine
neighbors and a learning-based method of estimating the attack parameters.
Lastly, we propose learning-based control approaches to mitigate the negative
effects of the adversarial attack
Intelligent spectrum management techniques for wireless cognitive radio networks
PhD ThesisThis thesis addresses many of the unique spectrum management chal-
lenges in CR networks for the rst time. These challenges have a vital
e ect on the network performance and are particularly di cult to solve
due to the unique characteristics of CR networks. Speci cally, this thesis
proposes and investigates three intelligent spectrum management tech-
niques for CR networks. The issues investigated in this thesis have a
fundamental impact on the establishment, functionality and security of
CR networks.
First, an intelligent primary receiver-aware message exchange protocol
for CR ad hoc networks is proposed. It considers the problem of alleviat-
ing the interference collision risk to primary user communication, explic-
itly to protect primary receivers that are not detected during spectrum
sensing. The proposed protocol achieves a higher measure of safeguard-
ing. A practical scenario is considered where no global network topology
is known and no common control channel is assumed to exist.
Second, a novel CR broadcast protocol (CRBP) to reliably disseminate
the broadcast messages to all or most of the possible CR nodes in the
network is proposed. The CRBP formulates the broadcast problem as a
bipartite-graph problem. Thus, CRBP achieves a signi cant successful
delivery ratio by connecting di erent local topologies, which is a unique
feature in CR ad hoc networks.
Finally, a new defence strategy to defend against spectrum sensing data
falsi cation attacks in CR networks is proposed. In order to identify
malicious users, the proposed scheme performs multiple veri cations of
sensory data with the assistance of trusted nodes.Higher Committee For Education Devel-
opment in Iraq (HCED-Iraq
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