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Deterministic Secure Positioning in Wireless Sensor Networks

Sylvie Delaët () 1, Partha Sarathi Mandal 2, Mariusz Rokicki 1, Sébastien Tixeuil () 23

N° RR-6326 (2007)

Abstract: Properly locating sensor nodes is an important building block for a large subset of wireless sensor networks (WSN) applications. As a result, the performance of the WSN degrades significantly when misbehaving nodes report false location and distance information in order to fake their actual location. In this paper we propose a general distributed deterministic protocol for accurate identification of faking sensors in a WSN. Our scheme does \emph{not} rely on a subset of \emph{trusted} nodes that are not allowed to misbehave and are known to every node in the network. Thus, any subset of nodes is allowed to try faking its position. As in previous approaches, our protocol is based on distance evaluation techniques developed for WSN. On the positive side, we show that when the received signal strength (RSS) technique is used, our protocol handles at most $\lfloor \frac{n}{2} \rfloor-2$ faking sensors. Also, when the time of flight (ToF) technique is used, our protocol manages at most $\lfloor \frac{n}{2} \rfloor - 3$ misbehaving sensors. On the negative side, we prove that no deterministic protocol can identify faking sensors if their number is $\lceil \frac{n}{2}\rceil -1$. Thus our scheme is almost optimal with respect to the number of faking sensors. We discuss application of our technique in the trusted sensor model. More precisely our results can be used to minimize the number of trusted sensors that are needed to defeat faking ones.

  • 1:  Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (LRI)
  • CNRS : UMR8623 – Université Paris XI - Paris Sud
  • 2:  GRAND-LARGE (INRIA Futurs)
  • INRIA – CNRS : UMR 8022 – Université Paris XI - Paris Sud – Université Lille I - Sciences et technologies
  • 3:  Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6)
  • CNRS : UMR7606 – Université Pierre et Marie Curie [UPMC] - Paris VI
  • Domain : Computer Science/Cryptography and Security
    Computer Science/Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
    Computer Science/Data Structures and Algorithms
    Computer Science/Networking and Telecommunication
  • Keywords : Wireless Sensor Network – Secure Positioning – Distributed Protocol – Faking Sensor
  • Internal note : RR-6326
  • Available versions :  v1 (2007-10-20) v2 (2007-10-22)
 
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  • Submitted on: Monday, 22 October 2007 09:28:28
  • Updated on: Monday, 22 October 2007 09:29:23