Potential cognitive radio denial-of-service vulnerabilities and protection countermeasures: A multi-dimensional analysis and assessment

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications, CrownCom

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 456-464

  Brown, Timothy X ^a   Sethi, Amita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive radio; Countermeasure; Denial of service; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE RADIO; COUNTERMEASURE; DENIAL OF SERVICE; VULNERABILITY;

COMPUTER CRIME; COMPUTER NETWORKS; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; SECURITY OF DATA; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

RADIO;

EID: 51349141382     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CROWNCOM.2007.4549841     Document Type: Conference Paper

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