Collaborative Research: CT-T: TRIESTE: A Trusted Radio Infrastructure for Enforcing Spectrum Etiquettes

大多数商用无线设备不制作较低层属性（例如，来自模数转换器的原始波形电平采样）。然而，最近，研究界已将注意力转向认知无线电的发展，这将暴露较低层的协议栈的研究人员和开发人员。虽然这种灵活的平台前景广阔，但也存在一些严重的潜在安全缺陷。很容易想象，认知无线电可能成为一个理想的滥用平台，因为协议栈的最低层将以开源的方式被程序员访问。拟议项目通过关注构建整体解决方案所需的两个重要构件来解决这些问题，以确保软件无线电的可靠运行：首先，调查小组计划开发工具来量化认知无线电网络中频谱礼仪政策被滥用的程度，其次，该小组计划调查识别这种频谱滥用的方法，这是驱动异常检测和响应机制所必需的。总体而言，这项工作的更广泛影响集中在认知无线电代表了一种新兴技术，需要在这些高度可编程的无线电进入公共市场之前开发安全机制。

Most commercial wireless devices do not make lower-layer properties (e.g., raw waveform-level samples from an analog-to-digital converter) accessible to users. Recently, however, the research community has directed its attention towards the development of cognitive radios that will expose the lower-layers of the protocol stack to researchers and developers. Although the promise of such a flexible platform is great, there are also some serious potential security drawbacks. It is easily conceivable that cognitive radios could become an ideal platform for abuse since the lowest layers of the protocol stack will be accessible to programmers in an open-source manner. The proposed project addresses these concerns by focusing on two important building blocks needed in constructing a holistic solution to ensuring the trustworthy operation of software radios: first, the investigating team plans to develop tools to quantify the degree to which spectrum etiquette policies are abused in a network of cognitive radios and, second, the team plans to investigate methods for identifying such spectrum abuse, which is necessary in order to drive anomaly detection and response mechanisms. Overall, the broader impact of the effort is centered around the fact that cognitive radios represent an emerging technology that requires security mechanisms to be developed before these highly-programmable radios reach the public market.