Defense against primary user emulation attacks from the secondary user throughput perspective

Abstract

The maximization of Secondary user (SU) throughput has been studied extensively in honest cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS). However, when primary user emulation attacks (PUEAs) are launched, the model of CSS changes. This also necessitates the redesigning of the SU throughput maximisation scheme. In this paper, such redesigning of the SU throughput maximisation scheme under PUEAs has been carried out. Our objective is to suppress the damages caused by the PUEAs on the SU throughput. To serve this purpose, an optimally weighted CSS has been proposed. The optimal weights are obtained by maximising the SU throughput while protecting the primary user (PU) from interference in a network facing the PUEAs. Considering the significance of simplicity and speed in CSS, we apply the Nelder Mead Simplex Algorithm to solve the problem. The experiments carried out endorse the effectiveness of the proposed scheme compared to the existing combination schemes.