The popularity of cloud-assisted database-driven cognitive radio network (CRN) has increased significantly due to three main reasons; reduced sensing uncertainties (caused by the use of spectrum scanning and sensing techniques), FCC mandated use of a database for storing and utilizing idle channels, and leveraging cloud computing platform to process big data generated by wideband sensing and analyzing. In database-driven CRN, secondary users periodically query the database to find idle channels for opportunistic communications where secondary users use their geolocation (with the help of Global Positioning System GPS) to find idle channels for given location and time. Use of GPS makes the overall CRN vulnerable where malicious users falsify their geolocations through GPS spoofing to find more channels. The other main drawback of GPS is estimation error while finding location of users and idle bands. Due to this there will be probability of misdetection and false alarm which will have its effect on overall performance and efficiency of the system. In this paper, the authors present a three-stage mechanism for detecting GPS spoofing attacks using angle of arrival, received signal strength and time of arrival. They also evaluate the probability of misdetection and probability of false alarm in this system while detecting location of secondary users. The authors evaluate the performance of the proposed approach using numerical results. KEywORdS Cognitive Radio Networks, Dynamic Spectrum Access, False Alarm, Geolocation Database, GPS Spoofing, Misdetection, MUSIC, RSSI
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