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Detecting Adversarial Spectrum Attacks via Distance to Decision Boundary Statistics (2402.08986v1)

Published 14 Feb 2024 in cs.CR and cs.NI

Abstract: Machine learning has been adopted for efficient cooperative spectrum sensing. However, it incurs an additional security risk due to attacks leveraging adversarial machine learning to create malicious spectrum sensing values to deceive the fusion center, called adversarial spectrum attacks. In this paper, we propose an efficient framework for detecting adversarial spectrum attacks. Our design leverages the concept of the distance to the decision boundary (DDB) observed at the fusion center and compares the training and testing DDB distributions to identify adversarial spectrum attacks. We create a computationally efficient way to compute the DDB for machine learning based spectrum sensing systems. Experimental results based on realistic spectrum data show that our method, under typical settings, achieves a high detection rate of up to 99\% and maintains a low false alarm rate of less than 1\%. In addition, our method to compute the DDB based on spectrum data achieves 54\%--64\% improvements in computational efficiency over existing distance calculation methods. The proposed DDB-based detection framework offers a practical and efficient solution for identifying malicious sensing values created by adversarial spectrum attacks.

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