2010/04/19 by Waleed Ammar, Ammar, Waleed, Ahmed ElDawy +3
Computer Science · Engineering · #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #Security in Wireless Sensor Networks
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1004.3164
openalex publication_date 2010/04/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have gained researchers' attention in the last several years. Small sensors powered by miniaturized microprocessors are capable of supporting several applications for civil and military domains. Determining the location of sensors is a basic and essential knowledge for most WSN algorithms and protocols including data tagging, routing, node identification, among others. This paper surveys the different algorithms that have been proposed to securely determine the location of a sensor node. By "secure", we mean that adversaries cannot easily affect the accuracy of the localized sensors. In other words, the localization algorithm must be robust under several attacks. We provide a taxonomy for classifying different secure localization schemes and describe possible attacks that can harm localization. In addition, we survey different secure localization schemes and show how they map to the proposed taxonomy. We also give a comparison between the different schemes, showing the attacks addressed by each.