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Title: TrustSAS: A Trustworthy Spectrum Access System for the 3.5 GHz CBRS Band
As part of its ongoing efforts to meet the increased spectrum demand, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has recently opened up 150 MHz in the 3.5 GHz band for shared wireless broadband use. Access and operations in this band, aka Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS), will be managed by a dynamic spectrum access system (SAS) to enable seamless spectrum sharing between secondary users (SU s) and incumbent users. Despite its benefits, SAS’s design requirements, as set by FCC, present privacy risks to SU s, merely because SU s are required to share sensitive operational information (e.g., location, identity, spectrum usage) with SAS to be able to learn about spectrum availability in their vicinity. In this paper, we propose TrustSAS, a trustworthy framework for SAS that synergizes state-of-the-art cryptographic techniques with blockchain technology in an innovative way to address these privacy issues while complying with FCC’s regulatory design requirements. We analyze the security of our framework and evaluate its performance through analysis, simulation and experimentation. We show that TrustSAS can offer high security guarantees with reasonable overhead, making it an ideal solution for addressing SU s’ privacy issues in an operational SAS environment.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1917627
PAR ID:
10128464
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
IEEE INFOCOM 2019 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications
Page Range / eLocation ID:
1495 to 1503
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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