PROLEMus: A proactive learning-based MAC protocol against PUEA and SSDF attacks in energy constrained cognitive radio networks

M Patnaik, V Kamakoti, V Matyáš… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Malicious users can exploit vulnerabilities in cognitive radio networks (CRNs) and cause
heavy performance degradation by denial of service (DoS) attacks. During operation …

Probabilistic spectrum sensing data falsification attack in cognitive radio networks

A Ahmadfard, A Jamshidi, A Keshavarz-Haddad - Signal Processing, 2017 - Elsevier
Cognitive radio has emerged as a solution to the problem of spectrum scarcity in recent
years. Spectrum sensing is a key task in cognitive radio systems that can be performed …

Secure cooperative spectrum sensing strategy based on reputation mechanism for cognitive wireless sensor networks

X Luo - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cooperative spectrum sensing can be regarded as a promising method to resolve the
spectrum scarcity owing to achieving spatial diversity gain in cognitive radio sensor …

Distributed cooperative spectrum sensing based on reinforcement learning in cognitive radio networks

M Zhang, L Wang, Y Feng - AEU-International Journal of Electronics and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Spectrum sensing is an initial task for the successful operation of cognitive radio networks
(CRN). During cooperative spectrum sensing, malicious secondary user (SU) may report …

Trust-based mechanism design for cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks

J Wang, R Chen, JJP Tsai, DC Wang - Computer Communications, 2018 - Elsevier
We propose and analyze trust-based cooperative spectrum sensing data fusion schemes
against spectrum sensing data falsification attacks in cognitive radio networks. We first …

Trust and reputation management for securing collaboration in 5g access networks: The road ahead

I Ahmad, KLA Yau, MH Ling, SL Keoh - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Trust represents the belief or perception of an entity, such as a mobile device or a node, in
the extent to which future actions and reactions are appropriate in a collaborative …

Blockchain-Inspired Trust Management in Cognitive Radio Networks with Cooperative Spectrum Sensing

M Mahvash, N Moghim, M Mahdavi, M Amiri… - Pervasive and Mobile …, 2025 - Elsevier
Cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) in cognitive radio networks (CRNs) enhances spectral
decision-making precision but introduces vulnerabilities to malicious secondary user (SU) …

Cognitive energy-aware spectrum sensing with improved throughput for medical sensor networks

S Surekha, MZU Rahman - IEEE Sensors Letters, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Internet of Things (IoT) based medical devices equipped with biosensors are installed at the
patient's location to collect sensitive information, such as body temperature, heart rate, blood …

Robust cooperative spectrum sensing against probabilistic SSDF attack in cognitive radio networks

J Wu, T Song, C Wang, Y Yu, M Liu… - 2017 IEEE 86th …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cooperative spectrum sensing is one of the key technologies to accurately detect the
primary user (PU) activity in cognitive radio networks (CRNs). However, collaboration …

Secure non-consensus based spectrum sensing in non-centralized cognitive radio networks

R Rajkumari, N Marchang - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a non-centralized cognitive radio network, secondary users (SUs) cooperate in order to
determine the presence of the primary user (PU) signal. This can be accomplished by each …