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Adaptive Modulation and Coding and Cooperative ARQ in a Cognitive Radio System
In this paper, a joint cross-layer design of adaptive modulation and coding
(AMC) and cooperative automatic repeat request (C-ARQ) scheme is proposed for a
secondary user in a shared-spectrum environment. First, based on the
statistical descriptions of the channel, closed-form expressions of the average
spectral efficiency (SE) and the average packet loss rate (PLR) are presented.
Then, the cross-layer scheme is designed, with the aim of maximizing the
average SE while maintaining the average PLR under a prescribed level. An
optimization problem is formed, and a sub-optimal solution is found: the target
packet error rates (PER) for the secondary system channels are obtained and the
corresponding sub-optimal AMC rate adaptation policy is derived based on the
target PERs. Finally, the average SE and the average PLR performance of the
proposed scheme are presented
Optimal Real-time Spectrum Sharing between Cooperative Relay and Ad-hoc Networks
Optimization based spectrum sharing strategies have been widely studied.
However, these strategies usually require a great amount of real-time
computation and significant signaling delay, and thus are hard to be fulfilled
in practical scenarios. This paper investigates optimal real-time spectrum
sharing between a cooperative relay network (CRN) and a nearby ad-hoc network.
Specifically, we optimize the spectrum access and resource allocation
strategies of the CRN so that the average traffic collision time between the
two networks can be minimized while maintaining a required throughput for the
CRN. The development is first for a frame-level setting, and then is extended
to an ergodic setting. For the latter setting, we propose an appealing optimal
real-time spectrum sharing strategy via Lagrangian dual optimization. The
proposed method only involves a small amount of real-time computation and
negligible control delay, and thus is suitable for practical implementations.
Simulation results are presented to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed
strategies.Comment: One typo in the caption of Figure 5 is correcte
A Survey on Wireless Security: Technical Challenges, Recent Advances and Future Trends
This paper examines the security vulnerabilities and threats imposed by the
inherent open nature of wireless communications and to devise efficient defense
mechanisms for improving the wireless network security. We first summarize the
security requirements of wireless networks, including their authenticity,
confidentiality, integrity and availability issues. Next, a comprehensive
overview of security attacks encountered in wireless networks is presented in
view of the network protocol architecture, where the potential security threats
are discussed at each protocol layer. We also provide a survey of the existing
security protocols and algorithms that are adopted in the existing wireless
network standards, such as the Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, and the long-term
evolution (LTE) systems. Then, we discuss the state-of-the-art in
physical-layer security, which is an emerging technique of securing the open
communications environment against eavesdropping attacks at the physical layer.
We also introduce the family of various jamming attacks and their
counter-measures, including the constant jammer, intermittent jammer, reactive
jammer, adaptive jammer and intelligent jammer. Additionally, we discuss the
integration of physical-layer security into existing authentication and
cryptography mechanisms for further securing wireless networks. Finally, some
technical challenges which remain unresolved at the time of writing are
summarized and the future trends in wireless security are discussed.Comment: 36 pages. Accepted to Appear in Proceedings of the IEEE, 201
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