Machine learning-based malicious user detection for reliable cooperative radio spectrum sensing in Cognitive Radio-Internet of Things

The Cognitive Radio based Internet of Things (CR-IoT) is a promising technology that provides IoT endpoints, i.e., CR-IoT users the capability to share the radio spectrum otherwise allocated to licensed Primary Users (PUs). Cooperative Spectrum Sensing (CSS) improves spectrum sensing accuracy in a CR-IoT network. However, its performance may be degraded by potential attacks of the malicious CR-IoT users that send their incorrect sensing information to the corresponding Fusion Center (FC). This study presents a promising Machine Learning (ML) -based malicious user detection scheme for a CR-IoT network that uses a Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm to identify and classify malicious CR-IoT users. The classification allows the FC to make a more robust global decision based on the sensing results (i.e., energy vectors) which are reported only by the normal CRIoT users. The effectiveness of the proposed SVM algorithm based ML in a CR-IoT network with the malicious CR-IoT users is verified via simulations.