Cognitive radio network security: A survey

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1691-1708

  Parvin, Sazia ^a   Hussain, Farookh Khadeer ^b   Hussain, Omar Khadeer ^a   Han, Song ^a   Tian, Biming ^a   Chang, Elizabeth ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attacks; Primary users; Radio; Secondary users; Security; Trust

Indexed keywords

ATTACKS; PRIMARY USERS; SECONDARY USERS; SECURITY; TRUST;

COGNITIVE RADIO; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK LAYERS; PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY; RADIO; RADIO LINKS; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; SURVEYS; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 84867492061     PISSN: 10848045     EISSN: 10958592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2012.06.006     Document Type: Review

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