Title: Security aspects in the cognition cycle of distributed cognitive radio networks: a survey from a multi-agent perspective

Authors: Kok-Lim Alvin Yau; Geong Sen Poh; Peter Komisarczuk

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Networked Systems, Sunway University, No. 5 Jalan Universiti, Bandar Sunway, 46150 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia ' MIMOS Berhad, Technology Park Malaysia, 57000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ' Centre for Networks and Distributed Systems, School of Computing and Technology, University of West London, St Mary's Road, Ealing, London, W5 5RF, UK

Abstract: Cognitive Radio (CR) enables Secondary Users (SUs) to observe, learn and take the right action on its operating environment at any time instant. This feature has inevitably exposed the SUs to artificial intelligence attacks from adversaries. This paper provides a survey on various kinds of attacks, as well as reviews and proposes mitigation approaches to tackle them from a multi-agent perspective. Additionally, this paper shows the impact and criticality of artificial intelligence attacks on network-wide performance. We aim to establish a foundation, and to spark new research interests in this new and critical area.

Keywords: cognitive radio; distributed networks; cognition cycle; security attacks; vulnerabilities; threat mitigation; malicious attacks; jamming; PUE; primary user emulation; applied artificial intelligence; payoff propagation; artificial intelligence attacks; reinforcement learning; multi-agent systems; MAS; agent-based systems.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2013.052413

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2013 Vol.12 No.3, pp.157 - 176

Received: 01 Oct 2011
Accepted: 28 Mar 2012
Published online: 02 Mar 2013 *

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