An Investigation of Performance versus Security in Cognitive Radio Networks with Supporting Cloud Platforms

TL;DR

This paper investigates the trade-offs between security and performance in cognitive radio networks integrated with cloud platforms, using queuing models to analyze the impact of security measures.

Contribution

It introduces a queuing model analysis of security-performance trade-offs in cloud-supported cognitive radio networks, highlighting optimal configurations.

Findings

Security negatively impacts network performance.

Enabling cloud platforms improves performance.

Disabling security yields the best performance.

Abstract

The growth of wireless devices affects the availability of limited frequencies or spectrum bands as it has been known that spectrum bands are a natural resource that cannot be added. Meanwhile, the licensed frequencies are idle most of the time. Cognitive radio is one of the solutions to solve those problems. Cognitive radio is a promising technology that allows the unlicensed users, known as secondary users (SUs) to access licensed bands without making interference to licensed users or primary users (PUs). As cloud computing has become popular in recent years, cognitive radio networks (CRNs) can be integrated with the cloud platform. One of the important issues in CRNs is security. It becomes a problem since CRNs use radio frequencies as a medium for transmitting and CRNs share the same issues with wireless communication systems. Another critical issue in CRNs is performance. Security has an adverse effect to performance and there are trade-offs between them. The goal of this paper is to investigate the performance related to security trade-off in CRNs with supporting cloud platforms. Furthermore, Queuing Network Models with preemptive resume and preemptive repeat identical priority are applied in this project to measure the impact of security on performance in CRNs with or without cloud platform. The generalized exponential (GE) type distribution is used to reflect the bursty inter-arrival and service times at the servers. The results show that the best performance is obtained when security is disabled and the cloud platform is enabled.