CITI Talk: “A Framework for Resilient and Secure Spectrum Sensing on Cognitive Radio Networks”, by Michele Nogueira, on 2nd February

Abstract:

Primary user emulation attacks (PUEAs) are one of the most damaging threats in cognitive radio networks. Malicious or selfish secondary users pretend legitimate primary users to profit from the opportunistic use of the licensed frequency spectrum. Since cognitive radio importance has enhanced as an approach to spectral efficiency and to diminish the negative effects of wireless network scalability, approaches for PUEAs defense have arisen, evolving their architectural strategy, node’s operation and analysis design. This talk overviews recent achievement in PUEA defenses and presents a classification. Persistently unsolved challenges in the field are highlighted, and a framework for tackling one of the main challenges – the lack of flexibility to address this highly compromising attack – is outlined, promoting progress in the art of PUEA defense. As proof of concept, results present improvements in attack analysis employing flexible and multidimensional techniques on a case study. Finally, open issues and future directions are emphasized.

​Speaker ​Bio​graphy​:

Michele Nogueira is Professor of Computer Science at Federal University of Paraná, where she has been since 2010. In 2016, she will spend her sabbatical year as visiting faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. She received her doctorate in Computer Science from the University Pierre et Marie Curie – Sorbonne Universités, Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris VI (LIP6) in 2009. She was a Visiting Researcher at Georgia Institute Technology (GeorgiaTech) and a Visiting Professor at University Paul Sabatier in 2009 and 2013, respectively. Her research interests include wireless networks, security and dependability. She has worked on providing resilience to self-organized, cognitive and wireless networks by adaptive and opportunistic approaches. Dr. Nogueira was one of the pioneers in addressing survivability issues in self-organized wireless networks, being the works “A Survey of Survivability in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks” and “An Architecture for Survivable Mesh Networking” her prominent scientific contributions. She has been a recipient of Academic Scholarships from Brazilian Government on her undergraduate and graduate years, and of international grants such as from the ACM SIGCOMM Geodiversity program. She is also Associate Technical Editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine and the Journal of Network and Systems Management.

www.nr2.ufpr.br/~michele
michele@inf.ufpr.br​