基于加权平均一致算法的宽带压缩频谱感知

在认知无线电(CR)网络中进行频谱共享接入,首要的任务是进行频谱感知,并发现频谱空洞。基于认知无线网络中信号频域的固有稀疏性,本文结合了压缩感知(CS)技术与加权平均一致(weighted average consensus)算法,建立了分布式宽带压缩频谱感知模型。频谱感知分为两个阶段,在感知阶段,各个CR节点对接收到的主用户信号进行压缩采样以减少对宽带信号采样的开销和复杂度,并做出本地频谱估计;在信息融合阶段,各CR节点的本地频谱估计结果以分布式的方式进行信息融合,并得到最终的频谱估计结果,获得分集增益。仿真结果表明,结合压缩感知与加权平均一致算法增强了频谱感知的性能,比在相同的CR网络中使用平均一致算法时有了性能上的提升。      

认知无线电差分协作压缩频谱估计算法

在分布式认知无线网络场景下,针对传统协作压缩频谱估计收敛速度慢、计算复杂度高的问题,提出了一种差分协作压缩频谱估计算法用于宽带频谱感知。算法通过利用不同认知用户感知的宽带信号所满足的相同频谱支撑集特征,实现了在邻居节点感知先验信息条件下,本地认知用户基于压缩测量向量差值的宽带频谱迭代估计。仿真分析结果表明,所提算法在频谱估计精度、检测性能与计算复杂度方面均获得了明显改善。     

一种SSDF攻击检测的证据理论合作频谱感知算法

现有的基于证据理论的合作频谱感知认为所有认知用户都是诚实的,没有考虑恶意用户的存在。当恶意用户篡改本地感知的结果,发送错误的数据到数据融合中心,将会降低合作频谱感知的性能,这种攻击称为频谱感知数据篡改（spectrum sensing data falsification,SSDF）攻击。由于恶意用户发送的证据与其它认知用户的证据存在差别,本文使用Jousselme距离来衡量证据的可信度,提出一种SSDF攻击检测算法。数据融合中心接收所有认知用户的证据,让可信度低的证据不参与融合判决,可信度高的证据根据可信度进行加权融合。仿真结果表明,所提出的SSDF攻击检测算法在恶意用户发起SSDF攻击时可以很好的改善频谱感知性能。      

基于扩散机制的分布式宽带压缩频谱感知算法

针对认知无线电网络共享频谱资源的特征,本文提出一种基于扩散机制的分布式宽带压缩频谱感知方法。该算法包含两个工作阶段。在第一个阶段,每个认知用户对观测信号进行压缩感知和独立重构,产生本地频谱估计;在第二阶段,各个认知用户根据扩散机制协作更新频谱估计信息,实现最优估计。仿真结果表明,该算法与一致性分布式压缩频谱感知方法相比,可以快速增强认知无线电网络频谱感知能力,可应用于动态拓扑结构的认知无线电网络。     

基于压缩感知和最小二乘的分布式协作频谱感知

针对认知无线电(CR)集中式频谱感知算法对融合中心要求高,而且对节点失效的容忍性也不高等缺点,提出了一种基于压缩感知的分布式多节点协作算法.认知无线电网络中每个CR节点在接收信号频谱后,首先根据压缩采样理论在本地获取压缩采样测量值,然后利用l1范数约束的最小二乘算法在本节点估计频谱,把在此节点估计的频谱传给下一相邻节点,以此进行迭代优化直到算法收敛.理论分析和仿真结果表明,所提算法不仅计算复杂度低,收敛速度快,而且精确重构性能好,可靠性较高.     

利用SSDF攻击特征的加权分布式频谱感知算法

协作频谱感知可以提高频谱感知的可靠性,但易遭到篡改感知数据(Spectrum Sensing Data Falsification,SSDF)攻击。该文利用SSDF攻击特征,判断邻居节点发送值是否是恶意状态值,并提出一种加权分布式协作频谱感知算法。该算法根据状态值在本地节点网络中的偏离程度,设定其融合权值。仿真结果表明,所提算法在节点收敛率和鲁棒性两方面,比基于梯度的协作频谱感知算法和基于最大差值的协作频谱感知算法都有所提升,检测性能也因此显著提高。      

利用分组过滤加强SSDF攻击防御的方案设计

在协作频谱感知网络中,设备故障、信道阴影衰落和噪声等会导致频谱感知器(如手机、平板等)发送的信息不可靠,而恶意用户在协作频谱感知网络中,也会发送错误的感知信息以混淆视听,干扰诚实用户的判决结果。不可靠消息在邻居用户间的传递必将导致感知结果产生偏差和错误,大大降低了协作频谱感知的效率。为解决上述问题,本文将置信传播算法和信誉模型相结合,提出一种基于次用户分组的频谱感知数据伪造(SSDF,Spectrum Sensing Data Falsification)攻击防御方案。该方案分两个阶段对不可靠信息进行过滤:首先,在频谱感知阶段,通过置信传播算法对次用户进行分组,过滤掉因设备故障等因素产生的不可靠用户,剩余用户则视为正常工作用户进行数据融合。然后,在数据融合阶段,根据以信誉值作为权重因子的置信传播算法来计算最终的判决值。本文所提方案分别在感知阶段和融合阶段采取了防御措施,可有效地过滤网络中的不可靠信息,减小恶劣的频谱环境对次用户感知结果的影响。仿真结果表明,本文所提方案迭代次数少、收敛快,有效地减弱了SSDF攻击带来的损害,提高了感知结果的准确性、增强了认知无线网络的安全性。      

基于一致优化的分布式宽带合作频谱感知算法

在压缩采样的框架下,提出一种基于一致优化的分布式宽带频谱压缩感知算法。算法思想如下:认知无线电网络中每个认知节点首先根据压缩采样理论获取压缩采样,并恢复本地的频谱信息,然后在一跳范围内交换频谱信息。认知节点将获取的邻居节点频谱信息进行加权平均,此加权平均作为频谱恢复一致优化问题的约束,以此来降低计算开销,加速算法的收敛。优化问题通过最优交替方向乘子法迭代求解来获取整个认知无线电网络的频谱估计。给出了算法的收敛性证明,并进行了仿真实验以验证算法的有效性。     

基于信任度与信噪比的认知无线电协同频谱检测

无线网络中存在信噪比较高的恶意认知用户的情况,为了有效利用可靠的认知无线电(CR)技术用户的本地感知结果,提出了一种基于信任度的信噪比比较协同频谱感知算法,可有效剔除认知网络中存在的信噪比较高的恶意认知用户。仿真实验表明,在存在恶意认知用户的认知无线电网络中,该算法检测性能优于传统的或准则(OR)数据融合的协同频谱感知算法以及基于信噪比比较协同频谱感知算法。     

协作频谱感知中的SSDF攻击及其对策研究

协作频谱感知是认知无线电中实现频谱有效利用的关键环节,但协作频谱感知由于其聚集感知数据的特点,为恶意用户提供了可乘之机。恶意用户可以通过实施频谱感知数据伪造(spectrum sensing data falsification,SSDF)攻击的方式,使认知无线电系统不能如实地根据外界环境进行动态的频谱切换。为深入理解SSDF攻击,掌握其防御对策的研究现状及发展趋势,从攻击手段、攻击形式和攻击策略3个角度细化出具体的SSDF攻击类型,总结了目前SSDF攻击的典型防御对策。同时,针对目前相关研究中所存在的问题,明确了一些有待继续研究的方向。     

基于ESD测试的无线电网络抗SSDF攻击协作频谱感知方案

针对认知无线电网络中协作频谱感知容易遭受数据伪造攻击的问题,提出一种基于检验统计和极端学生化偏差检验法的协作频谱感知方案。首先,将差分进化算法与加权增益合并软决策融合方法相结合,形成一种高效的节点决策融合机制。然后,在协作感知中,根据节点的软决策数据,利用检验统计消除故障认知节点。最后,利用提出的改进型ESD检验法消除恶意认知节点,从而形成全局决策。仿真结果表明,该方案在协作感知中能够有效过滤SSDF攻击数据,具有较低的误检测率。     

A novel signal separation algorithm based on compressed sensing for wideband spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks

In cognitive radio networks, since cognitive terminals use a shared wideband frequency spectrum for data transmissions, they are susceptible to malicious denial‐of‐service attacks, where adversaries try to corrupt communication by actively transmitting interference signals. To address this issue, in this paper, we propose a novel signal separation algorithm based on compressed sensing, which can not only recover the entire spectrum but also separate mixed occupying signals. Specifically, the proposed algorithm is executed following three steps: (i) each cognitive terminal attempts to recover all signals over an entire wideband spectrum employing the compressed sensing technique; (ii) all cognitive terminals send their recovered signals to the fusion center where a wavelet edge detection method is adopted to locate the spectrum edges of these signals and then divide the entire spectrum into several sub‐bands; (iii) the fusion center separates its received signals on each spectrum sub‐band into different categories according to their features. Both analytical and simulation results indicate that this novel compressed‐sensing‐based algorithm can effectively separate wideband signals at a low cost and combat interference of the malicious terminals in cognitive radio networks as well. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

一种基于信誉度的航空无线电协作频谱感知方法

摘要：传统的航空无线电协作频谱感知算法无法区分节点的性质（普通/恶意）,而新的加权序贯检测（weighted sequential probability ratio test,WSPRT）算法虽然解决了这个问题,但在具有频谱感知数据篡改（spectrum sensing data falsification,SSDF）攻击节点的环境中,无法保持高的感知正确率。提出了一种改进型WSPRT 算法,在传统的 WSPRT 算法基础上改进了信誉度奖惩方案,增加了临近时间内感知稳定度的量化。从实验仿真结果看,改进后的算法不仅时间复杂度更低,而且能够有效地识别恶意节点,对于恶意用户的判定更准确。     

Distributed Cooperative Wideband Spectrum Sensing Algorithm Based on Subspace Methods

We present a novel distributed cooperative spectrum sensing algorithm from compressive sampling in wideband cognitive radio (CR) networks. Each CR utilizes compressive sampling to reduce data acquisition costs. A subspace method is then adopted to directly detect occupied channels without reconstructing the sparse spectrum. To obtain the spatial diversity gain, global signal subspace is estimated by the distributed projection approximation subspace tracking (DPAST) algorithm in which the CRs exchange information locally and cooperate without the need for a fusion center. Then, the orthogonality property of the signal subspace and noise subspace can be exploited to find spectral support to complete the spectrum sensing. We study the convergence behavior of the DPAST algorithm and evaluate the performance of spectrum sensing. Simulation results indicate that the DPAST can effectively estimate the global signal subspace, and the proposed compressed wideband spectrum sensing scheme performs better than spectrum sensing at a single CR.     

Throughput of cognitive radio networks with improved energy detector under security threats

Spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks (CRNs) is subjected to some security threats such as primary user emulation (PUE) attack and spectrum sensing data falsification (SSDF) attack. In PUE attack, a malicious user (MU_PUE) transmits an emulated primary signal throughout the spectrum sensing interval to secondary users (SUs) to forestall them from accessing the primary user (PU) spectrum bands. In SSDF attack, malicious users (MU_SSDF) intentionally report false sensing decisions to the fusion center (FC) to influence the overall decision. While most of the existing literatures have studied the effects of these 2 types of attacks separately, the present paper evaluates the secondary network performance in terms of throughput under both the PUE and SSDF attacks with improved energy detectors (IEDs) where SU's spectrum access is hybrid, ie, either in overlay or in underlay mode. An analytical expression on throughput of SU under the simultaneous influence of both of these attacks is developed. Impact of several parameters such as IED parameter, attacker probabilities, and attacker strength on the throughput of SU is investigated. Performance of the present scheme is also compared with only PUE and only SSDF attacks. A simulation test bed is developed in MATLAB to validate our analytical results.     

Mitigating spectrum sensing data falsification attack in ad hoc cognitive radio networks

In a cognitive radio ad hoc network, there is no central authority. Hence, distributed collaborative spectrum sensing (CSS) plays a major role in achieving an accurate spectrum sensing result. However, CSS is sensitive to spectrum sensing data falsification (SSDF) attack, in which a malicious user falsifies its local sensing report before disseminating it into the network. To capture such abnormal behavior of a node, we present an approach for detecting SSDF attack based on dissimilarity score. A secondary user (SU) computes the dissimilarity score of its neighbors from the messages received from its h‐hop neighbors. Further, we also present how the proposed scheme can be used on the sequence of sensing reports to detect and isolate the malicious SUs on the fly.     

抗SSDF攻击的一致性协作频谱感知方案

在分布式认知无线电网络中,一般很难找到合适的融合中心能够收集所有协作用户的感知信息,而且协作过程极可能遭到篡改感知数据(Spectrum Sensing Data Falsification,SSDF)攻击.鉴于此,该文提出了一种改进的一致性协作频谱感知方案.利用Metropolis迭代规则,各次用户仅依靠邻接点之间的...     

Towards trustworthy collaboration in spectrum sensing for ad hoc cognitive radio networks

Cognitive radio networks (CRN) make use of dynamic spectrum access to communicate opportunistically in frequency bands otherwise licensed to incumbent primary users such as TV broadcast. To prevent interference to primary users it is vital for secondary users in CRNs to conduct accurate spectrum sensing, which is especially challenging when the transmission range of primary users is shorter compared to the size of the CRN. This task becomes even more challenging in the presence of malicious secondary users that launch spectrum sensing data falsification (SSDF) attacks by providing false spectrum reports. Existing solutions to detect such malicious behaviors cannot be utilized in scenarios where the transmission range of primary users is limited within a small sub-region of the CRN. In this paper, we present a framework for trustworthy collaboration in spectrum sensing for ad hoc CRNs. This framework incorporates a semi-supervised spatio-spectral anomaly/outlier detection system and a reputation system, both designed to detect byzantine attacks in the form of SSDF from malicious nodes within the CRN. The framework guarantees protection of incumbent primary users’ communication rights while at the same time making optimal use of the spectrum when it is not used by primary users. Simulation carried out under typical network conditions and attack scenarios shows that our proposed framework can achieve spectrum decision accuracy up to 99.3 % and detect malicious nodes up to 98 % of the time.     

CoPD: a conjugate prior based detection scheme to countermeasure spectrum sensing data falsification attacks in cognitive radio networks

Cognitive radio networks are a promising solution to the spectrum scarcity issue. In cognitive radio networks, cooperative spectrum sensing is critical to accurately detect the existence of a primary user (PU) signal, because the local spectrum sensing by a single secondary user (SU) has low reliability. Unfortunately, cooperative spectrum sensing is vulnerable to the spectrum sensing data falsification (SSDF) attack. Specifically, a malicious user can send a falsified sensing report to mislead other (benign) SUs to make an incorrect decision on the PU activity, to cause either denial of service to benign SUs or harmful interference to PUs. Therefore, detecting the SSDF attack is extremely important for robust cooperative spectrum sensing. This paper proposes a distributed defense scheme, termed conjugate prior based SSDF detection (CoPD), to countermeasure the SSDF attack. CoPD can effectively exclude the malicious sensing reports from SSDF attackers, so that benign SUs can effectively detect the PU activity. Furthermore, CoPD can also exclude abnormal sensing reports from ill-functioned SUs. Simulation results indicate that CoPD achieves very good performance to accomplish robust cooperative spectrum sensing.