Performance analysis of dynamic spectrum access networks under primary user emulation attacks

Z. Jin, S. Anand, K. P. Subbalakshmi

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Abstract

Primary user emulation attack (PUEA) is a denial of service (DoS) attack unique to dynamic spectrum access (DSA) networks. While there have been studies in the literature to detect and mitigate PUEA, the impact of PUEA on the call blocking and call dropping probabilities of users in secondary networks has not been studied. We present the first analysis to study the impact of PUEA on the secondary users in terms of call blocking and call dropping. We propose a three dimensional continuous time Markov chain (3D-CTMC) to model the channel occupancy in DSA networks. We use the 3D-CTMC to determine the call blocking and call dropping probabilities for secondary users. We validate our analysis with simulations. Results indicate that while PUEA does not affect the call blocking probability, it can increase the call dropping probability of secondary users by more than one order of magnitude. We also evaluate the call dropping performance of some of our previously proposed protocols to mitigate PUEA. We show that our protocols can improve the call dropping performance by about 40% for high traffic loads of malicious users and can provide almost the same performance as that of a system with no PUEA, when the malicious user traffic is low.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2010 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, GLOBECOM 2010
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event53rd IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2010 - Miami, United States
Duration: 6 Dec 201010 Dec 2010

Publication series

NameGLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Conference

Conference53rd IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2010
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMiami
Period6/12/1010/12/10

Keywords

  • Call blocking
  • Call dropping
  • Dynamic spectrum access (DSA)
  • Markov model
  • Primary user emulation attack (PUEA)

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