Securing Localization With Hidden and Mobile Base Stations

Srdjan Capkun, Mani Srivastava, Mario Cagalj

AbstractUntil recently, the problem of localization
in wireless networks has been mainly studied in a nonadversarial
setting. Only recently, a number of solutions
have been proposed that aim to detect and prevent attacks
on localization systems. In this work, we propose a new
approach to secure localization based on hidden and
mobile base stations. Our approach enables secure localization
with a broad spectrum of localization techniques:
ultrasonic or radio, based on received signal strength
or signal time of flight. Through several examples we
show how this approach can be used to secure nodecentric
and infrastructure-centric localization schemes. We
further show how this approach can be applied to secure
localization in sensor networks.
KeywordsSecurity, Localization
TypeConference paper [With referee]
ConferenceIEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)
Year2006    Month April
PublisherIEEE
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IMM Group(s)Computer Science & Engineering