Secure Geographic Routing in Ad Hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks

Security in sensor networks is one of the most relevant research topics in resource constrained wireless devices and networks. Several attacks can be suffered in ad hoc and wireless sensor networks (WSN), which are highly susceptible to attacks, due to the limited resources of the nodes. In this paper, we propose innovative and lightweight localization techniques that allow for intrusion identification and isolation schemes and provide accurate location information. This information is used by our routing protocol which additionally incorporates a distributed trust model to prevent several routing attacks to the network. We finally evaluate our algorithms for accurate localization and for secure routing which have been implemented and tested in real ad hoc and wireless sensor networks

Location based services in wireless ad hoc networks

In this dissertation, we investigate location based services in wireless ad hoc networks from four different aspects - i) location privacy in wireless sensor networks (privacy), ii) end-to-end secure communication in randomly deployed wireless sensor networks (security), iii) quality versus latency trade-off in content retrieval under ad hoc node mobility (performance) and iv) location clustering based Sybil attack detection in vehicular ad hoc networks (trust). The first contribution of this dissertation is in addressing location privacy in wireless sensor networks. We propose a non-cooperative sensor localization algorithm showing how an external entity can stealthily invade into the location privacy of sensors in a network. We then design a location privacy preserving tracking algorithm for defending against such adversarial localization attacks. Next we investigate secure end-to-end communication in randomly deployed wireless sensor networks. Here, due to lack of control on sensors\u27 locations post deployment, pre-fixing pairwise keys between sensors is not feasible especially under larger scale random deployments. Towards this premise, we propose differentiated key pre-distribution for secure end-to-end secure communication, and show how it improves existing routing algorithms. Our next contribution is in addressing quality versus latency trade-off in content retrieval under ad hoc node mobility. We propose a two-tiered architecture for efficient content retrieval in such environment. Finally we investigate Sybil attack detection in vehicular ad hoc networks. A Sybil attacker can create and use multiple counterfeit identities risking trust of a vehicular ad hoc network, and then easily escape the location of the attack avoiding detection. We propose a location based clustering of nodes leveraging vehicle platoon dispersion for detection of Sybil attacks in vehicular ad hoc networks --Abstract, page iii

Improving Performance of WSN Based On Hybrid Range Based Approach

Improving the performance of WSN supported hybrid range based approach. WSN is self-possessed minimization error of nodes prepared with limited resources, limited memory and computational abilities. WSNs reliably work in unidentified hubs and numerous situations, it's difficult to trade sensor hubs after deployment, and therefore a fundamental objective is to optimize the sensor nodes' lifetime. A WSN may be a set of a large number of resource-constrained sensor nodes which have abilities for information detection, processing, and short-range radio communication, Analysis localization error minimization based several applications of wireless sensor networks (WSN) need data regarding the geographical location of each detector node. Self-organization and localization capabilities are one in every of the foremost necessary needs in detector networks. It provides a summary of centralized distance-based algorithms for estimating the positions of nodes during very sensing nodes. Secure localization of unknown nodes during a very wireless detector network (WSN) may be a vital analysis subject wireless sensor networks (WSN), a component of enveloping computing, are presently getting used on a large scale to look at period environmental standing, Be that as it may, these sensors work underneath extraordinary vitality imperatives and are planned by remembering an application. Proposed approaches are sensing node location and challenging task, involve assessing sort of various parameters needed by the target application. In study realize drawback not sense positioning of nodes .but proposed approach formula recognizes the optimal location of nodes supported minimize error and best answer in WSN. Localization algorithms mentioned with their benefits and disadvantages. Lastly, a comparative study of localization algorithms supported the performance in WSN. This was often done primarily to offer a summary of the proposed approach known today for reliable data and minimizing the energy consumption in wireless sensor networks

Research on Secure Localization Model Based on Trust Valuation in Wireless Sensor Networks

Secure localization has become very important in wireless sensor networks. However, the conventional secure localization algorithms used in wireless sensor networks cannot deal with internal attacks and cannot identify malicious nodes. In this paper, a localization based on trust valuation, which can overcome a various attack types, such as spoofing attacks and Sybil attacks, is presented. The trust valuation is obtained via selection of the property set, which includes estimated distance, localization performance, position information of beacon nodes, and transmission time, and discussion of the threshold in the property set. In addition, the robustness of the proposed model is verified by analysis of attack intensity, localization error, and trust relationship for three typical scenes. The experimental results have shown that the proposed model is superior to the traditional secure localization models in terms of malicious nodes identification and performance improvement