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Security Issues in Cognitive Radio: A Review

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Microelectronics, Electromagnetics and Telecommunications

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 372))

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Electromagnetic spectrum is a scarce, important and a very useful resource. However, this resource has not been utilized effectively or in other words most of the spectrum remains vacant. Due to fixed or licensed spectrum allocation the spectrum remains vacant for a considerable amount of time. Cognitive radio, a wireless and an intelligent technology was proposed by Joseph Mitola to make efficient use of spectrum. The use of EM wave as a transmission medium makes security a major concern in Cognitive Radio as these are easily susceptible to attacks. Also, being a flexible wireless network technology it is susceptible to traditional threats as well as unique attacks which will have an adverse effects on its performance. This paper introduces the Cognitive Radio technology and mainly focuses on security issues related to it. Further, we present a layered classification of security issues of this exciting area of communication technology.

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  1. Department of ECE, Vignan University, Vadlamudi, Guntur Dist, A.P., India

    Shriraghavan Madbushi & M. S. S. Rukmini

  2. Department of ECE, RCEOM, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

    Rajeshree Raut

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  1. Dept of Computer Science Engineering, Anil Neerukonda Institute of Techn. and Sciences, Vishakapatnam, India

    Suresh Chandra Satapathy

  2. Electronics & Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Electronics & Communication Engineering, Warangal, India

    N Bheema Rao

  3. Electronics & Communication Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological Univ, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India

    S Srinivas Kumar

  4. Electronics & Communication Engineering, GITAM University Electronics & Communication Engineering, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India

    C Dharma Raj

  5. Electronics & Communication Engineering, GITAM University Electronics & Communication Engineering, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India

    V Malleswara Rao

  6. Electronics & Communication Engineering, GITAM University Electronics & Communication Engineering, Visakhapatnam, India

    G V K Sarma

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Madbushi, S., Raut, R., Rukmini, M.S.S. (2016). Security Issues in Cognitive Radio: A Review. In: Satapathy, S., Rao, N., Kumar, S., Raj, C., Rao, V., Sarma, G. (eds) Microelectronics, Electromagnetics and Telecommunications. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 372. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2728-1_12

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