Title
An Efficient Location Verification Scheme for Static Wireless Sensor Networks.
Abstract
In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), the accuracy of location information is vital to support many interesting applications. Unfortunately, sensors have difficulty in estimating their location when malicious sensors attack the location estimation process. Even though secure localization schemes have been proposed to protect location estimation process from attacks, they are not enough to eliminate the wrong location estimations in some situations. The location verification can be the solution to the situations or be the second-line defense. The problem of most of the location verifications is the explicit involvement of many sensors in the verification process and requirements, such as special hardware, a dedicated verifier and the trusted third party, which causes more communication and computation overhead. In this paper, we propose an efficient location verification scheme for static WSN called mutually-shared region-based location verification (MSRLV), which reduces those overheads by utilizing the implicit involvement of sensors and eliminating several requirements. In order to achieve this, we use the mutually-shared region between location claimant and verifier for the location verification. The analysis shows that MSRLV reduces communication overhead by 77% and computation overhead by 92% on average, when compared with the other location verification schemes, in a single sensor verification. In addition, simulation results for the verification of the whole network show that MSRLV can detect the malicious sensors by over 90% when sensors in the network have five or more neighbors.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.3390/s17020225
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
sensor,location verification,static wireless sensor networks (WSNs)
Trusted third party,Real-time computing,Electronic engineering,Engineering,Wireless sensor network,Overhead (business),Embedded system,Computation
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
17
2.0
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
11
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Inhwan Kim141.06
Bo-Sung Kim220.71
JooSeok Song330658.82