TY - JOUR
T1 - Most active band (MAB) attack and countermeasures in a cognitive radio network
AU - Hu, Nansai
AU - Yao, Yu Dong
AU - Mitola, Joseph
PY - 2012/3
Y1 - 2012/3
N2 - This paper investigates a type of attacks on a cognitive radio (CR) network, most active band (MAB) attack, where an attacker or a malicious CR node senses/determines the most active band within a multi-band CR network and targets this band through a denial of service (DoS) attack. We propose a countermeasure strategy, coordinated concealment strategy (CCS), to counter the MAB attack. Our results show that CCS significantly outperforms CR's inherent capability of signal/interference avoidance under a MAB attack. We also introduce power control in CCS to further improve the countermeasure performance in terms of the percentage of survival nodes.
AB - This paper investigates a type of attacks on a cognitive radio (CR) network, most active band (MAB) attack, where an attacker or a malicious CR node senses/determines the most active band within a multi-band CR network and targets this band through a denial of service (DoS) attack. We propose a countermeasure strategy, coordinated concealment strategy (CCS), to counter the MAB attack. Our results show that CCS significantly outperforms CR's inherent capability of signal/interference avoidance under a MAB attack. We also introduce power control in CCS to further improve the countermeasure performance in terms of the percentage of survival nodes.
KW - Cognitive radio
KW - cognitive interference
KW - denial of service attack
KW - most active band attack
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U2 - 10.1109/TWC.2012.011812.110927
DO - 10.1109/TWC.2012.011812.110927
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84858332226
SN - 1536-1276
VL - 11
SP - 898
EP - 902
JO - IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
JF - IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
IS - 3
M1 - 6138837
ER -