ENHANCING COGNITIVE RADIO NETWORK ARCHITECTURE FOR SECURITY DEVELOPMENT AND UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS IN NIGERIA COMMUNICATION COMMISSION WIRELESS POINT.

Abstract

With the new trend of technological advancement on data access and current high data dependency rate, there has been a tremendous and rapid increase in wireless internet deployment. This is because there is an increased need for portable internet provision to enable data access while on the go. Newer innovations of electronic equipments come with factory fitted wireless network interface cards to enable them to have internet access. Consequently, the recent surge in youths signing up unto social media, file sharing and messaging services in addition to high rate of internet of things currently being deployed also increased the internet dependency rate. The global pandemic also surged the need for data dependency as corporate organizations and schools moved to online meetings and online classrooms. Classroom learning has also been drastically changed through the introduction of virtual classrooms and holograms. This research work studied conventional wireless access point environment through experimental setup of wireless access point scenarios. The effect of distance from the access point on the signal strength and transmission power was determined by setting up so many stations at various distances from the access point and packets transmitted to them while network analyzer was used to read up the bandwidth and calculate the time, delay, throughput, and received signal strength.