Research and Analysis on Cognitive Radio Network Security

Long Tang, Juebo Wu

Shenzhen Angelshine Co. Ltd., Shenzhen, China.
State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.

DOI: 10.4236/wsn.2012.44017                

Abstract

This paper firstly gives a detail analysis on the security problems faced in cognitive radio network, and introduces the basic issues about cognitive radio network. Then, according to the differences between cognitive radio network and existing wireless network, it analyses and discusses the dynamic spectrum access security and artificial intelligence. Finally, it draws a conclusion to security problems of cross layer design.

Keywords

Spectrum Access; Cognitive Radio Network; Artificial Intelligence; Network Security

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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