Green Cooperative Web of Trust for Security in Cognitive Radio Networks

Authors

  • Vandana Milind Rohokale Center for TeleInFrastruktur, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
  • Neeli Rashmi Prasad Center for TeleInFrastruktur, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
  • Ramjee Prasad Center for TeleInFrastruktur, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/jcsm2245-1439.236

Keywords:

Cooperative Spectrum Sensing, Cognitive Radio Network (CRN), Cooperative Web of Trust (CWoT), Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), etc

Abstract

Spectrum is a scarce and very essential resource for the ever growing mobile communication applications. Radio networks (CRN) is the best evolved solution towards spectrum scarcity. Cooperative spectrum sensing is a well-known and proven mechanism in the CRNs. As compared to other traditional wireless networks, CRNs are more delicate and open to the wireless environments due to their heterogeneous nature. Therefore, the CRNs have more security threats than the conventional wireless networks. The spectrum sensing and sharing mechanisms are inherently vulnerable to the malicious behaviors in the wireless networks due to its openness. This paper proposes an energy efficient lightweight cryptographic Cooperative web of trust (CWoT) for the spectrum sensing in CRNs which is proved to be appropriate for the resource constrained wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Development of trust based authentication and authorization mechanism for the opportunistic large array (OLA) structured CRNs is the main objective of this paper. Received signal strength (RSS) values obtained can be utilized to avoid Primary user emulation attacks (PUEA) in CRNs.

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Author Biographies

Vandana Milind Rohokale, Center for TeleInFrastruktur, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

Vandana Milind Rohokale received her B.E. degree in Electronics Engineering in 1997 from Pune University, Maharashtra, India. She received her Masters degree in Electronics in 2007 from Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India. She is presently working as Assistant Professor in Sinhgad Institute of Technology, Lonavala, Maharashtra, India. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. degree in CTIF, Aalborg University, Denmark. Her research interests include Cooperative Wireless Communications, AdHoc Networks and Cognitive Networks, Physical Layer Security, Information Theory and its Applications.

 

Neeli Rashmi Prasad, Center for TeleInFrastruktur, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

Dr. Neeli Prasad is leading a global team of 20+ researchers across multiple technical areas and projects in Japan, India, throughout Europe and USA. She has a Master of Science degree from Delft University, Netherlands and a PhD degree in electrical and electronic engineering from University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. She has been involved in projects totaling more than 120 million – many of which she has been the principal investigator. Her notable accomplishments include enhancing the technology of multinational players including Cisco, HUAWEI, NIKSUN, Nokia-Siemens and NICT as well as defining the reference framework for Future Internet Assembly and being one of the early key contributors to Internet of Things. She is also an advisor to the European Commission and expert member of governmental working groups and cross-continental forums. Previously, she has served as chief architect on large-scale projects from both the network operator and vendor side looking across the entire product and solution portfolio covering wireless, mobility, security, Internet of Things, Machine-to-Machine, eHealth, smart cities and cloud technologies. She has more than 250 publications and published two of the first books on WLAN. She is an IEEE senior member and an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer.

Ramjee Prasad, Center for TeleInFrastruktur, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

Prof. Dr. Ramjee Prasad is the Director of the Center for TeleInfrastruktur (CTIF) and Professor Chair of Wireless Information Multimedia Communication at Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), USA, the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers (IETE), India; the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK; and a member of the Netherlands Electronics and Radio Society (NERG), and the Danish Engineering Society (IDA). He is recipient of several international academic, industrial and governmental awards of which the most recent is the Ridder in the Order of Dannebrog (2010), a distinguishment awarded by the Queen of Denmark.

Ramjee Prasad is the Founding Chairman of the Global ICT Standardisation Forum for India (GISFI: www.gisfi.org) established in 2009. GISFI has the purpose of increasing the collaboration between Indian, Japanese, European, North-American, Chinese, Korean and other worldwide standardization activities in the area of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and related application areas. He is also the Founding Chairman of the HERMES Partnership (www.hermes-europe.net) a network of leading independent European research centres established in 1997, of which he is now the Honorary Chair.

Ramjee Prasad is the founding editor-in-chief of the Springer International Journal on Wireless Personal Communications. He is member of the editorial board of several other renowned international journals and is the series editor of the Artech House Universal Personal Communications Series. Ramjee Prasad is a member of the Steering, Advisory, and Technical Program committees of many renowned annual international conferences, e.g., Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symposium (WPMC); Wireless VITAE, etc. He has published more than 25 books, 750 plus journals and conferences publications, more than 15 patents, a sizeable amount of graduated Ph.D. students (over 60) and an even larger number of graduated M.Sc. students (over 200). Several of his students are today worldwide telecommunication leaders themselves.

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2014-07-20

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Rohokale VM, Prasad NR, Prasad R. Green Cooperative Web of Trust for Security in Cognitive Radio Networks. JCSANDM [Internet]. 2014 Jul. 20 [cited 2024 Apr. 24];2(3-4):307-28. Available from: https://journals.riverpublishers.com/index.php/JCSANDM/article/view/6157

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