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Security Challenges and Issues in Cognitive Radio Networks

This special issue aims to gather recent research efforts and contributions from academia and industry in addressing the security issues in cognitive radio networks. The open and dynamic nature of cognitive radio challenges the conventional wireless security paradigms e.g., cryptography and authentication, which derives researchers and scientists to seek new means to complement the traditional security methods and improve the cognitive radio security. This special issue will bring together leading researchers and developers to discuss and exchange their ideas and recent results in fields of security modeling, design, and evaluation in cognitive radio networks.

Edited by: Benoit Champagne, Trung Q. Duong, Zhiyong Feng, Ying-Chang Liang, Gonzalo Mateos, K.P. (Suba) Subbalakshmi, Qihui Wu, Chengwen Xing and Yulong Zou

  1. Cognitive radio (CR) promises to be a solution for the spectrum underutilization problems. However, security issues pertaining to cognitive radio technology are still an understudied topic. One of the prevaili...

    Authors: Kresimir Dabcevic, Alejandro Betancourt, Lucio Marcenaro and Carlo S Regazzoni
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2014 2014:171
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  3. In cognitive radio networks, spectrum sensing data falsification (SSDF) attack is a crucial factor deteriorating the detection performance of cooperative spectrum sensing. In this paper, we propose and analyze...

    Authors: Linyuan Zhang, Qihui Wu, Guoru Ding, Shuo Feng and Jinlong Wang
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2014 2014:81
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  4. This paper investigates security-oriented beamforming designs in a relay network composed of a source-destination pair, multiple relays, and a passive eavesdropper. Unlike most of the earlier works, we assume ...

    Authors: Mujun Qian, Chen Liu and Youhua Fu
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2014 2014:56
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2014 2014:129

  5. In this paper, we propose a new multiple-level power allocation strategy for the secondary user (SU) in cognitive radio (CR) networks. Different from the conventional strategies, where SU either stays silent o...

    Authors: Zhong Chen, Feifei Gao, Zhengwei Zhang, James CF Li and Ming Lei
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2014 2014:51
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  6. Security has played a major role in cognitive radio networks. Numerous researches have mainly focused on attacking detection based on source localization and detection probability. However, few of them took th...

    Authors: Jianwu Li, Zebing Feng, Zhiqing Wei, Zhiyong Feng and Ping Zhang
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2014 2014:48
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  7. Cognitive radio (CR) is a promising technology that brings about remarkable improvement in spectrum utilization. To tackle the hidden terminal problem, cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) which benefits from th...

    Authors: Jinlong Wang, Shuo Feng, Qihui Wu, Xueqiang Zheng, Yuhua Xu and Guoru Ding
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2014 2014:35
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  8. In this paper, both the security and the reliability performance of the cognitive amplify-and-forward (AF) relay system are analyzed in the presence of the channel estimation error. The security and the reliab...

    Authors: Qi Gu, Gongpu Wang, Li Gao and Mugen Peng
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2014 2014:28
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