Title
Securing cooperative transmission in wireless communications
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Date of Original Version
12-1-2007
Abstract
Cooperative transmission is an emerging communication technique that takes advantages of spatial diversity and broadcast natures of wireless channels to improve wireless channel capacity. However, cooperative transmission can be vulnerable to malicious attacks, especially in its current design. In this paper, we examine whether the cooperative transmission still have performance advantages when we consider the security issues. In particular, we identify various attacks against cooperative transmission, analyze the vulnerabilities of current schemes, design a trust-assisted cooperative transmission scheme, and evaluate the proposed scheme through analysis and simulations. The proposed scheme can fix the security problems and maintain the performance advantage. It performs much better than the traditional scheme when there are malicious/greedy relays or severe channel estimation errors. In addition, we investigate the advantage of cooperative transmission in terms of defending bad mouth attacks. A recovery of link bit error rate is observed.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services, MobiQuitous 2007
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Han, Zhu, and Yan L. Sun. "Securing cooperative transmission in wireless communications." Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services, MobiQuitous 2007 (2007). doi: 10.1109/MOBIQ.2007.4451071.