Biblio

The strategy of permanently allocating a frequency band in a wireless communication network to one application has led to exceptionally low utilization of the vacant spectrum. By utilizing the unused licensed spectrum along with the unlicensed spectrum, Cognitive Radio Sensor Network (CRSNs) ensures the efficiency of spectrum management. To utilize the spectrum dynamically it is important to safeguard the spectrum sensing. Cooperative Spectrum Sensing (CSS) is recommended for this task. CSS aims to provide reliable spectrum sensing. However, there are various vulnerabilities experienced in CSS which can influence the performance of the network. In this work, the focus is on the Byzantine attack in CSS and current security solutions available to avoid the Byzantines in CRSN.

This paper introduces an efficient reactive routing protocol considering the mobility and the reliability of a node in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks (CRSNs). The proposed protocol accommodates the dynamic behavior of the spectrum availability and selects a stable transmission path from a source node to the destination. Outlined as a weighted graph problem, the proposed protocol measures the weight for an edge the measuring the mobility patterns of the nodes and channel availability. Furthermore, the mobility pattern of a node is defined in the proposed routing protocol from the viewpoint of distance, speed, direction, and node's reliability. Besides, the spectrum awareness in the proposed protocol is measured over the number of shared common channels and the channel quality. It is anticipated that the proposed protocol shows efficient routing performance by selecting stable and secured paths from source to destination. Simulation is carried out to assess the performance of the protocol where it is witnessed that the proposed routing protocol outperforms existing ones.