| Title | Aggregated-Query-as-a-Secure-Service for RF Spectrum Database-Driven Opportunistic Wireless Communications |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2018 |
| Authors | Adebayo, Abdulhamid, Rawat, Danda B., Garuba, Moses, Njilla, Laurent |
| Conference Name | 2018 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) |
| Keywords | aggregated-query-as-a-secure-service, composability, database-driven dynamic spectrum access approach, Databases, delays, Dynamic Networks and Security, dynamic spectrum access, dynamic spectrum access and security, grid followers, grid leaders, Interference, licensed primary users, location based security, Metrics, pubcrawl, querying RF spectrum database, Radio frequency, radio spectrum management, Resiliency, RF channel sensing uncertainties, RF spectrum database server, RF spectrum database-driven opportunistic wireless communications, security, telecommunication security, unlicensed secondary users search, wireless channels, Wireless communication |
| Abstract | The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has recently mandated the database-driven dynamic spectrum access where unlicensed secondary users search for idle bands and use them opportunistically. The database-driven dynamic spectrum access approach is regarded for minimizing any harmful interference to licensed primary users caused by RF channel sensing uncertainties. However, when several secondary users (or several malicious users) query the RF spectrum database at the same time, spectrum server could experience denial of service (DoS) attack. In this paper, we investigate the Aggregated-Query-as-a-Secure-Service (AQaaSS) for querying RF spectrum database by secondary users for opportunistic wireless communications where selected number of secondary users aka grid leaders, query the database on behalf of all other secondary users, aka grid followers and relay the idle channel information to grid followers. Furthermore, the grid leaders are selected based on their both reputation or trust level and location in the network for the integrity of the information that grid followers receive. Grid followers also use the weighted majority voting to filter out comprised information about the idle channels. The performance of the proposed approach is evaluated using numerical results. The proposed approach gives lower latency (or same latency) to the secondary users and lower load (or same load) to the RF spectrum database server when more number of secondary users (or less number of secondary users) query than that of the server capacity. |
| DOI | 10.1109/CNS.2018.8433129 |
| Citation Key | adebayo_aggregated-query-as–secure-service_2018 |
Aggregated-Query-as-a-Secure-Service for RF Spectrum Database-Driven Opportunistic Wireless Communications