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Secure Position Verification for Wireless Sensor Networks in Noisy Channels

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing 2011-05-06 v2

Abstract

Position verification in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is quite tricky in presence of attackers (malicious sensor nodes), who try to break the verification protocol by reporting their incorrect positions (locations) during the verification stage. In the literature of WSNs, most of the existing methods of position verification have used trusted verifiers, which are in fact vulnerable to attacks by malicious nodes. They also depend on some distance estimation techniques, which are not accurate in noisy channels (mediums). In this article, we propose a secure position verification scheme for WSNs in noisy channels without relying on any trusted entities. Our verification scheme detects and filters out all malicious nodes from the network with very high probability.

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@article{arxiv.1105.0668,
  title  = {Secure Position Verification for Wireless Sensor Networks in Noisy Channels},
  author = {Partha Sarathi Mandal and Anil K. Ghosh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.0668},
  year   = {2011}
}

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16 pages, The paper has been accepted for presentation at the 10th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless (ADHOC NOW 2011) July 18-20, 2011, Paderborn, Germany

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