• ETRI Journal
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• 제42권6호
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• pp.976-986
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• 2020

Internet of Things (IoT) is considered the future network to support wireless communications. To realize an IoT network, sufficient spectrum should be allocated for the rapidly increasing IoT devices. Through cognitive radio, unlicensed IoT devices exploit cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) to opportunistically access a licensed spectrum without causing harmful interference to licensed primary users (PUs), thereby effectively improving the spectrum utilization. However, an open access cognitive IoT allows abnormal IoT devices to undermine the CSS process. Herein, we first establish a hard-combining attack model according to the malicious behavior of falsifying sensing data. Subsequently, we propose a weighted sequential hypothesis test (WSHT) to increase the PU detection accuracy and decrease the sampling number, which comprises the data transmission status-trust evaluation mechanism, sensing data availability, and sequential hypothesis test. Finally, simulation results show that when various attacks are encountered, the requirements of the WSHT are less than those of the conventional WSHT for a better detection performance.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권6호
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• pp.1133-1146
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• 2011

Cognitive radio (CR) is considered one of the most promising next-generation communication systems; it has the ability to sense and make use of vacant channels that are unused by licensed users. Reliable detection of the licensed users' signals is an essential element for a CR network. Cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) is able to offer better sensing performance as compared to individual sensing. The presence of malicious users who falsify sensing data can severely degrade the sensing performance of the CSS scheme. In this paper, we investigate a secure CSS scheme, based on the Kullback-Leibler Divergence (KL-divergence) theory, in order to identify malicious users and mitigate their harmful effect on the sensing performance of CSS in a CR network. The simulation results prove the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권11A호
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• pp.822-830
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• 2009

The spectrum efficiency of mobile communication networks can be improved dramatically adopting multiple antennas technologies. In order to guarantee the licensed rights of primary user (PU), the cognitive radio system should perform in a relatively low interference manner when it gets access to the spectrum of licensed networks. In this paper, we explore a uniformly distributed circular antenna array to implement beamforming algorithm that is accomplished by optimization method at the base station of cognitive radio networks, and therefore we can suppress the interference to PU by steering quite low transmission power toward PU and constructing a narrow beam toward cognitive user (CU). By reducing the constraint number of the optimization problem, we also propose a null steering algorithm that steers rather low radiation power toward PU, while the other areas in the same cell are covered by radiation power except the local area around PU. It is pursued to reduce the computation load and enlarge the capacity of cognitive radio networks extremely. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithms process superior performance.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제25권8호
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• pp.821-827
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• 2014

최근의 주파수 부족현상을 해결하면서 간섭 없이 스펙트럼을 효율적으로 사용하는 주파수 공동 사용에 대한 연구가 많이 이루어지고 있다. 또한, 이와 더불어 급증하는 모바일 데이터 수요에 대처하기 위한 주요 스펙트럼 정책으로서 ASA/LSA(Authorized Shared Access/Licensed Shared Access) 개념을 많은 나라에서 도입하고 있는데, 이는 모바일 트래픽 증가를 해결하기 위한 스몰셀(small cell) 기술을 적용하는데 가장 적합한 스펙트럼 액세스 모델이다. ASA/LSA 주파수로 3.5 GHz 대역이 고려되고 있는 바, 본 논문에서는 가능한 ASA/LSA 대역을 발굴하고, 나아가 면허 없는 대역을 확장하기 위해 국내 3~4 GHz 대역에 대한 SAM(Spectrum Access Model)을 제안하고, 그 결과는 향후 스몰셀 수용 및 개방 주파수 확보를 위한 SAM을 개발하는데 필요한 데이터를 제공하게 될 것이다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.614-618
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• 2012

Smart grid is widely considered to be a next generation power grid, which will be integrated with information feedback communications.However, smart grid communication technologies are subject to inefficient spectrum allocation problems. Cognitive radio networks can solve the problemof spectrumscarcity by opening the under-utilized licensed bands to secondary users. In this paper, adaptive cognitive radio spectrum sensing and sharing algorithms are developed for smart grid environments. Simulation results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme in comparison with other existing schemes.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.17-26
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• 2012

무선인지 네트워크에서 비면허 사용자는 면허 스펙트럼 대역을 감지하여 가회가 있을 때마다 면허 사용자에 간섭을 일으키지 않고 매체에 접근한다. 특히 애드혹 네트워크에서는 MAC 계층이 비면허 사용자들간 스펙트럼 접근을 조정하는 중요한 역할을 수행한다. 이에 따라 최근 많은 MAC 프로토콜이 연구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 무선인지 애드혹 네트워크에서의 MAC 프로토콜을 비교 분석한다. 먼저 프로토콜들을 공통 제어 채널을 기준으로 분류하고 각 종류별 주요 프로토콜을 분석한다. 그리고 나서 프로토콜들을 고유 특성과 성능 측면에서 정성적으로 비교한다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.223-228
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• 2013

Cognitive radio has been recently considered a promising technology to improve spectrum utilization by enabling secondary access to licensed bands that are not used by primary users temporarily or spatially. A prerequisite to this secondary access is the lack of interference to the primary system. This requirement makes spectrum sensing a key process for cognitive radio. In this study, we consider amplify and forward (AF)-based cooperative spectrum sensing for cognitive radio networks where multiple relay nodes are utilized to amplify and forward the primary user signal for better spectrum sensing, and maximum ratio combining is used for fusion detection by a cognitive coordinator. Further, the detection probability and the bit error rate of AF-based cooperative spectrum sensing are analyzed in fading multiple cognitive relay channels. The simulation results show that the AF-based cooperative spectrum sensing scheme outperforms the conventional scheme.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.144-150
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• 2006

A serious problem with traditional 'command & control' spectrum management techniques is that they do not easily accommodate new technologies and new services. This paper describes the necessary principles of flexible-use spectrum rights which may allow a wide variety of spectrum uses in a single general-purpose band. Based on the electrospace description of the radio spectrum, these principles allow general aggregation or division of licensed electrospace regions via secondary markets, providing rules for how regulatory limits change under aggregation or division. These flexible-use principles limit transmitter behaviors that tend to create a more difficult operating environment for receivers, while making receivers responsible for handling any remaining interference. The author shows how flexible-use principles could provide a basis for real-world flexible-use frequency bands.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.151-157
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• 2006

In a continuously expanding wireless world, the number of radio systems increases every day and efficient spectrum usage becomes a more significant requirement. Ultra-wideband (UWB) and cognitive radio are two exciting technologies that offer new approaches to the spectrum usage. The main objective of this paper is to shed the first light on the marriage of these two important approaches. The strength of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based UWB in co-existing with licensed systems is investigated. The opportunity concept is defined, and the requirements of the opportunistic spectrum usage are explained. It is proposed to take the UWB-OFDM from the current underlay implementation, and evolve it to a combined underlay and opportunistic spectrum usage technology, leading to cognitive UWB-OFDM. This way, we aim at making UWB more competitive in the wireless market with extended range, higher capacity, better performance, and a wide variety of applications.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.221-227
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• 2015

Spectrum sensing plays an essential role in a cognitive radio network, which enables opportunistic access to an underutilized licensed spectrum. In conventional cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS), all cognitive users (CUs) in the network spend the same amount of time on spectrum sensing and waste time in remaining silent when other CUs report their sensing results to the fusion center. This problem is solved by the superposition cooperative spectrum sensing (SPCSS) scheme, where the sensing time of a CU is extended to the reporting time of the other CUs. Subsequently, SPCSS assigns the CUs different sensing times and thus affects both the sensing performance and the throughput of the system. In this paper, we propose an algorithm to determine the optimal sensing time of each CU for SPCSS that maximizes the achieved system throughput. The simulation results prove that the proposed scheme can significantly improve the throughput of the cognitive radio network compared with the conventional CSS.