Title: Mitigation of primary user emulation attack in cognitive radio for secured medical body area networks

Authors: K.J. Prasanna Venkatesan; V. Vijayarangan

Addresses: Department of Electonics and Communication Engineering, National Engineering College, K.R. Nagar, Kovilpatti, Tamilnadu, India ' Department of Electonics and Communication Engineering, National Engineering College, K.R. Nagar, Kovilpatti, Tamilnadu, India

Abstract: In recent years, the cognitive radio (CR) networks have lots of issues during the communication. The main and important issue to be concentrated is the primary user emulation attack (PUEA). This primary user emulation attack (PUEA) is one of the main issues where it compromises the spectrum sensing. So to overcome this primary user emulation attack (PUEA) issue in the cognitive radio (CR) we are proposing an approach defence against PUEA attacks in cognitive radio medical body area networks (MBANs). In this approach initial authentication of the primary user is done at the helper nodes. Later the network estimates the RSSI, distance and the time of arrival. Based on these parameters, it is possible for the network to have a secure communication between the nodes.

Keywords: cognitive radio; primary user emulation attacks; PUEA; medical BANs; body area networks; MBANs; network security; primary user authentication.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMNDI.2015.072842

International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation, 2015 Vol.6 No.2, pp.73 - 80

Received: 28 Jun 2014
Accepted: 23 Dec 2014
Published online: 04 Nov 2015 *

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