A secure MAC protocol for Cognitive Radio Networks (SMCRN)

Ali Mansour; Ghazanfar Safdar; Wajdi Alhakami; Salah A. Albermany

A secure MAC protocol for Cognitive Radio Networks (SMCRN)

Ali Mansour
, Ghazanfar Safdar
, Wajdi Alhakami
, Salah A. Albermany

Institute for Research in Applicable Computing (IRAC)

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Abstract

In addition to standard authentication and data confidentiality requirements, Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs) face distinct security issues such as primary user emulation and spectrum management attacks. A compromise of these will result in a denial of service, eavesdropping, forgery, or replay attack. These attacks must be considered while designing a secure media access control (MAC) protocol for CR networks. This paper presents a novel secure CR MAC protocol: the presented protocol is analysed for these security measures using formal logic methods such as Burrows-Abadi-Needham (BAN) logic. It is shown that the proposed protocol functions effectively to provide strong authentication and detection against malicious users leading to subsequent secure communication.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2013 Science and Information Conference
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9780989319300
Publication status	Published - 14 Nov 2013
Event	2013 Science and Information Conference - London Duration: 7 Oct 2013 → 9 Oct 2013

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Conference	2013 Science and Information Conference
City	London
Period	7/10/13 → 9/10/13
Other	2013 Science and Information Conference (07/10/2013-09/10/2013, London)

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Cognitive radio

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