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Detecting and Mitigating Selfish Primary Users in Cognitive Radio

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Nowadays, the cognitive radio has become a promising solution for spectrum shortage disputes and to achieve dynamic spectrum access. This study focuses on two things: The first aim of this study is the integrity check to be carried when accepting new cognitive users or accept cognitive user who wish to re-join the group. In spite of these checks and after entering the group, some cognitive users turn out to be selfish after accessing the group. Hence the second goal is how to mitigate the attack caused by the selfish malicious user with the help of collaborator node. The collaborator node senses the spectrum and conveys the message along with the authentication tag. The information with the tag is accepted by the cognitive radio.

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Abbreviations

PKSM:

Spectrum manager public key

PKCR:

Cognitive radio public key

SKA:

Symmetric key between CR and SM

SK:

Symmetric key

PKGP:

Group public key

PKCR:

Cognitive radio public key

SKB:

Symmetric Key between CR and GP

PID:

Physical ID

LID:

Link identifier

OID:

Object identifier

RN:

Random number

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  1. ECE/SEEE, SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur, TamilNadu, 613401, India

    Avila Jayapalan, Padmapriya Praveenkumar & Thenmozhi Karuppasamy

  2. SoME, SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur, TamilNadu, 613401, India

    Prem Savarinathan

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Jayapalan, A., Savarinathan, P., Praveenkumar, P. et al. Detecting and Mitigating Selfish Primary Users in Cognitive Radio. Wireless Pers Commun 109, 1021–1031 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-019-06602-9

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