A reliability aware protocol for cooperative communication in cognitive radio networks

Shah, Munam Ali; Zhang, Si-Jing; Yang, Hongji

doi:10.1007/s11633-016-0995-1

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“…22 WRAN system [7][8][9][10][11], and the authentication protocols for CRNs are important because the IEEE 802. 22 WRAN system is one of the examples of the CRNs [12][13][14][15]. A number of solutions have been published regarding the security issues of WiMAX networks since the IEEE 802.16 standard has been developed.…”

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“…According to this trust value, whether or not this CR node will obtain the access to the free spectrum of the PU can be decided. A novel secure authentication mechanism has been proposed in [14] for the communication in CR mobile ad-hoc networks, which consists of two phases: authentication and confidential communication. The entire authentication process needs an authenticated server.…”

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An enhanced authentication protocol for WRANs in TV white space

Cong

Zhao

2015

Security Comm. Networks

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Cognitive radio technique has been recognized as an effective solution to the dilemma introduced by the rapid growth of wireless communications and the scarcity of spectrum resources. One example of the cognitive radio systems is the wireless regional area network operating in television white space (TVWS) spectrum, which has been specified by IEEE 802.22 standard. The wireless regional area networks in TVWS face not only the traditional security threats but also cognitive security challenges. Especially, the authentication between the base station and the customer premises equipment is vital for secure communication. We discovered that the authentication protocol specified in IEEE 802.22 is vulnerable to the interleaving attacks and cannot achieve mutual key confirmation. In this paper, an Enhanced Certificate-based Authentication scheme (ECA) has been proposed to overcome the vulnerability of the authentication scheme in IEEE 802.22 standard with much less requirements on the computation and communication resources. The drawbacks of the authentication protocol in IEEE 802.22 standard has been explored followed by the presentation of the proposed enhanced authentication protocol, ECA. The ECA protocol has been evaluated in terms of security functionality and the performance. The correctness of the Enhanced Certificate-based Authentication scheme is analyzed by the Burrows, Abadi, and Needham logic.

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