Title
A robust MDP approach to secure power control in cognitive radio networks
Abstract
Power control plays a key role in realizing reliable and spectrum-efficient communications in a cognitive radio network. In this paper we study secure power control schemes for cognitive radios via a robust Markov decision process (MDP) approach. We first use the discrete time Markov chain (DTMC) model to characterize the primary user's (PU) activities as well as the dynamics of the fading channel. The resulting power control problem can be optimally solved by a dynamic programming (DP) approach. The presence of malicious users, however, necessitates a cooperative spectrum sensing approach that requires extra signal processing and information exchange efforts to identify false spectrum sensing reports. Such a cooperative approach incurs considerable delay in spectrum sensing that may significantly deteriorate the performance of the DP strategy. Furthermore, the false sensing data generated by malicious users may give rise to erroneous estimation of the transition probabilities. Consequently, the solution obtained based on the estimated transition matrices may exhibit poor performance. To cope with these challenges, we propose a framework of power control schemes based on the robust MDP approach that is capable of achieving reasonably good performance when both spectrum sensing delay and estimation errors are present. The tradeoffs between the robustness, the achievable throughput, and the sensing delay are also discussed. Extensive simulation results are presented to demonstrate the performance of the proposed power control strategies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ICC.2012.6363797
ICC
Keywords
Field
DocType
discrete time markov chain model,cognitive radio networks,false spectrum sensing reports identification,power control,signal processing,malicious users,primary user activities,wireless security,cooperative communication,dynamic programming approach,estimation errors,cognitive radio,fading channels,transition probabilities,robust markov decision process,matrix algebra,fading channel,robust markov decision process approach,dp approach,secure power control schemes,decision theory,telecommunication security,transition matrices,spectrum sensing delay,dynamic programming,information exchange,robust mdp approach,markov processes,cooperative spectrum sensing approach,spectrum-efficient communications,pu activities,dtmc model,sensors,robustness,uncertainty,yttrium
Markov process,Computer science,Fading,Power control,Markov chain,Markov decision process,Computer network,Robustness (computer science),Real-time computing,Throughput,Cognitive radio
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
null
null
1550-3607 E-ISBN : 978-1-4577-2051-2
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4577-2051-2
2
0.39
References 
Authors
12
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hua Xiao181.85
Kai Yang227629.73
Xiaodong Wang33958310.41
Huai-Zong Shao45013.46