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Argus: A Light-Weighted Secure Localization Scheme for Sensor Networks

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Rapid technological advances have enabled the development of wireless sensor networks for various monitoring tasks. Usually the involved applications are dependant on the location knowledge of the low-cost sensor nodes, the majority of which are non-beacon nodes whose positions are yet to be discovered. We present Argus, a light-weighted position estimation scheme for sensor networks, to address the problem of localizing non-beacon nodes, with the location references obtained from a few beacon nodes whose positions are known apriori. We first determine certain geometric reference points and evaluate them with a voting procedure. Then the position of a non-beacon node of concern is estimated with the geometric centroid of the identified most valuable reference points. Simulation results show that even when a few of the available beacon nodes are malfunctioning, our scheme can tolerate those misleading location references, and still provide a dependable localization service.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Wen Tao Zhu

  2. School of Management and Information Systems, Central Queensland University, North Rockhampton, Queensland, 4702, Australia

    Yang Xiang

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  1. Information Security Institute, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, QLD 4001, Brisbane, Australia

    Juan González Nieto

  2. Department of Software Engineering and Programming Languages, Institute of ComputerScience, University of Augsburg, 86135, Augsburg, Germany

    Wolfgang Reif

  3. School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, 410083, Changsha, Hunan Province, P. R. China

    Guojun Wang

  4. School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Brisbane, Australia

    Jadwiga Indulska

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Zhu, W.T., Xiang, Y. (2009). Argus: A Light-Weighted Secure Localization Scheme for Sensor Networks. In: González Nieto, J., Reif, W., Wang, G., Indulska, J. (eds) Autonomic and Trusted Computing. ATC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5586. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02704-8_13

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