Dynamic Localization Schemes in Malicious Sensor Networks

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) have recently shown many potential military and civilian applications, especially those used in hostile environments where malicious adversaries can be present. The accuracy of location information is critical for such applications. It is impractical to have a GPS device on each sensor in WSN due to costs. Most of the existing location discovery schemes can only be used in the trusted environment. Recent research has addressed security issues in sensor network localization, but to the best of our knowledge, none have completely solved the secure localization problem. In this paper, we propose novel schemes for secure dynamic localization in sensor networks. These proposed schemes can tolerate up to 50% of beacon nodes being malicious, and they have linear computation time with respect to the number of reference nodes. Our security analysis has showed that our schemes are applicable and resilient to attacks from adversaries. We have further conducted simulations to analyze and compare the performance of these schemes, and to indicate when each should be used. The efficiencies of each method shows why we needed to propose multiple methods.