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Security Issues in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks

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The cognitive radio network (CRN) is an interesting variant of opportunistic networks. It is gaining steep popularity due to its peculiar capability in mitigating spectrum scarcity problem. Due to the same reason it has different security challenges than other wireless and opportunistic networks, in particular. The chapter accounts security-related research issues, domains of study, security implications and various approaches proposed in the literature to handle them. In the interest of space, the illustration provides crisp summary of the topic instead of exhaustive presentation.

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India

    Mahendra Kumar Murmu & Awadhesh Kumar Singh

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Murmu, M.K., Singh, A.K. (2020). Security Issues in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks. In: Gupta, B., Perez, G., Agrawal, D., Gupta, D. (eds) Handbook of Computer Networks and Cyber Security. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22277-2_10

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