e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries. 9th International Conference, AFRICOMM 2017, Lagos, Nigeria, December 11-12, 2017, Proceedings

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Performance Analysis of a Collaborative DSA-Based Network with Malicious Nodes

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-98827-6_6,
        author={Augustine Takyi and Melissa Densmore and Senka Hadzic and David Johnson},
        title={Performance Analysis of a Collaborative DSA-Based Network with Malicious Nodes},
        proceedings={e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries. 9th International Conference, AFRICOMM 2017, Lagos, Nigeria, December 11-12, 2017, Proceedings},
        proceedings_a={AFRICOMM},
        year={2018},
        month={8},
        keywords={Spectrum utilization Secondary node Backhaul Malicious node Throughput Latency Primary user},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-319-98827-6_6}
    }
    
  • Augustine Takyi
    Melissa Densmore
    Senka Hadzic
    David Johnson
    Year: 2018
    Performance Analysis of a Collaborative DSA-Based Network with Malicious Nodes
    AFRICOMM
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-98827-6_6
Augustine Takyi1,*, Melissa Densmore1,*, Senka Hadzic1,*, David Johnson,*
  • 1: University of Cape Town
*Contact email: atakyi@cs.uct.ac.za, mdensmore@cs.uct.ac.za, shadzic@cs.uct.ac.za, djohnson@csir.co.za

Abstract

This work analyses the performance of a Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) network with secondary nodes to provide Internet services, and studies the impact of malicious nodes and cooperative secondary nodes on the performance of the network and spectrum utilization. The work mathematically models the throughput, latency, and spectrum utilization with varying numbers of malicious nodes, secondary nodes, miss probabilities, and false alarm probabilities, and studies their effect on performance of the network. The results point to rapid spectrum starvation as the number of malicious nodes increase, as well as the negative impact of too many secondary nodes crowding out available spectrum with resultant degradation of throughput and latency.