Collaborative jamming and collaborative defense in Cognitive Radio Networks

Abstract

Cognitive Radio Network (CRN) is one of the prominent communication technologies that is touted to drive the next generations of digital communications. In this paper, we address the vulnerabilities in such networks and analyze a common form of the Denial-of-Service attack, i.e., collaborative jamming. In particular, we model and analyze the channel availability when different jamming and defending schemes are employed by the attackers and legitimate users. Cooperative defense strategy is proposed to exploit the temporal and spatial diversity for the legitimate secondary users. Illustrative results show how to improve the resiliency in CRN against jamming attacks.