Mitigation of primary user emulation attack using a new energy detection method in cognitive radio networks

A most promising solution to the expansion of spectrum efficiency is cognitive radio(CR)and this expansion is achieved by permitting the licensed frequency bands to be accessed by unlicensed secondary users(SUs)with a lack of interference with licensed primary users(PUs).This utilization of CR networks in the spectrum sensing causes vulnerable attacks like primary user emulation(PUE)attack and here PUs play the role of malicious user and do not permit other users to utilize PUs channel even in their unavailability.On the basis of the traditional single-threshold energy detection algorithm,a novel modified double-threshold energy detector is formulated in the CR network and the detection probability,miss detection probability,probability of false alarm,and their inter-relationship are analyzed.This paper develops a modified double threshold energy detection cooperative spectrum sensing technique to alleviate the PUE attack.Finally,performance-based evaluation is carried out between the proposed and the existing energy detection spectrum sensing method that had no consideration on PUE attack.The resultant of the simulation in MATLAB has revealed that the proposed model has significantly mitigated PUE attack by means of providing outstanding performance.

Robust and Low-Complexity Synchronization for Energy Detection UWB Receiver

A simple method using aided sliding rectangular windows for synchronization in energy detector （ED） receiver is proposed for impulse-based ultra wideband radios （IR-UWB） under binary pulse position modulation （PPM）, therefore grants an attractive solution for gaining low complexity while the accompanying performance loss in terms of UWB signal reception is comparatively low. Also, a method is developed to sup- press noise through accumulation of integrated results before synchronization point is reached. This proposed method can effectively reduce the impact of one of the major performance-degrading factors in ED receivers, i. e., noise caused by heightened noise floor due to large bandwidth product. Our theoretic work on this im- proved synchronization performance and relevant simulations are conducted on IEEE 802.15.4a channel mod- els, and results show that the proposed design scheme can effectively decrease both the probability of false alarm and probability of missed detection.