Abstract
Security plays an important role in the ability to deploy and retrieve trustworthy data from a wireless sensor network. Location verification is an effective first line of defense against attacks which take advantage of a lack, or compromise, of location information. In this work, a probabilistic approach to location verification in dense sensor networks is proposed. The proposed Probabilistic Location Verification (PLV) algorithm leverages the probabilistic dependence of the number of hops a broadcast packet traverses to reach a destination and the Euclidean distance between source and destination. A small number of verifier nodes determine the plausibility of the claimed location, which is represented by a real number between zero and one. Using the calculated plausibility metric, it is possible to create arbitrary number of trust levels in the location claimed. Simulation studies verify that the proposed solution provides high performance in face of various types of attacks.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | IEEE International Conference on Communications |
| Pages | 3485-3490 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Volume | 8 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2006 |
| Event | 2006 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2006 - Istanbul, Turkey Duration: Jul 11 2006 → Jul 15 2006 |
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| Other | 2006 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2006 |
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| Country | Turkey |
| City | Istanbul |
| Period | 7/11/06 → 7/15/06 |
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Keywords
- Localization
- Location verification
- Wireless sensor networks
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Media Technology
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A probabilistic approach to location verification in wireless sensor networks. / Ekici, Eylem; McNair, Janise; Al-Abri, Dawood.
IEEE International Conference on Communications. Vol. 8 2006. p. 3485-3490 4025013.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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