Securing Localization With Hidden and Mobile Base Stations

Until 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.