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 Joint Tensor Completion and Prediction Scheme for Multi-Dimensional Spectrum Map Construction

Spectrum data, which are usually characterized by many dimensions, such as location, frequency, time, and signal strength, present formidable challenges in terms of acquisition, processing, and visualization. In practice, a portion of spectrum data entries may be unavailable due to the interference during the acquisition process or compression during the sensing process. Nevertheless, the completion work in multi-dimensional spectrum data has drawn few attention to the researchers working in the eld. In this paper, we rst put forward the concept of spectrum tensor to depict the multi-dimensional spectrum data. Then, we develop a joint tensor completion and prediction scheme, which combines an improved tensor completion algorithm with prediction models to retrieve the incomplete measurements. Moreover, we build an experimental platform using Universal Software Radio Peripheral to collect real-world spectrum tensor data. Experimental results demonstrate that the effectiveness of the proposed joint tensor processing scheme is superior than relying on the completion or prediction scheme only