Distributed and Secure Uplink Power Control in Dynamic Spectrum Access

Yousi Lin, Yaling Yang, Xiaojiang Du, Jie Wu

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Abstract

In dynamic spectrum access (DSA), secondary users (SU) should only be allowed to access a licensed band belonging to incumbent users (IU) when the quality-of-service (QoS) requirements of both IUs and SUs can be satisfied at the same time. However, IU's location and its received interference strength are considered sensitive in many DSA systems which should not be revealed, making it very challenging to optimize the network utility subjected to satisfying the operation and security requirements of SUs and IUs. In this paper, we develop a secure and distributed SU transmit power control algorithm to solve this challenge. Our algorithm achieves optimal SU power control to maximize the sum of SU rates. The SINR-guaranteed coexistence between SUs and IUs are enabled to maintain effective communication, while no information is directly required from IUs. Local measurements of IU signals provided by Environmental sensing capability (ESC) also undergo a security masking process to ensure that IU location cannot be derived from its outputs. Convergence and stability properties of our algorithm and its privacy-protection strength are both theoretically analyzed and experimentally evaluated through simulations.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)10242-10256
Number of pages15
JournalIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Volume21
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2022

Keywords

  • DSA
  • distributed power control
  • network utility optimization

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