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Novel STD-ACP for detecting energy and threshold value in the network

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Primary User Emulation Attack (PUEA) is the most serious concern in Cognitive Radio (CR). The PUEA are malevolent users attempt to imitate primary signals and confuse CR users to prevent them from accessing vacant frequency bands. The proposed technique detects energy and assigns an appropriate threshold value for identifying attackers in the network using unique Smart Threshold detection (STD). The free space propagation model and two ray ground models are considered for finding the attacks. The authentication confirmation process (ACP) is carried out for detecting multiple PUEAs; ACP uses DNA sequencing using Binary to Excess One (BEO). The objective of this paper is to identify the PUEAs from the network and not providing the vacant frequency bands to the PUEAs and the frequent bands should be used by the primary and the secondary user efficiently. Here the secondary user will find out whether the PUEA or primary user is accessing the vacant bands using the STD-ACP technique. The simulation process is executed in the MATLAB platform. The Proposed STD-ACP finds out the attack strength, probability of detection, probability of error, probability of false alarms, and identifies the number of PUEAs. By simulating the performance of the primary user will be increased while the PUEAs can be detached from the network. The proposed STD-ACP approach is compared with attack-aware threshold selection (AATS), optimal voting rule, and K-out-of-N rule methods respectively.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Infant Jesus Engineering College, Vallanadu, Thoothukudi District, Tamilnadu, 628851, India

    O. Sugel Anandh

  2. Department of Computer Science, Government College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, 695581, India

    Tina Elizabeth Mathew

  3. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai Campus, Chennai, Tamilnadu, 600127, India

    K. V. Pradeep & S. Rajarajeswari

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Anandh, O.S., Mathew, T.E., Pradeep, K.V. et al. Novel STD-ACP for detecting energy and threshold value in the network. Wireless Netw 29, 3151–3161 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-023-03368-8

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