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The way people use computing devices has been changed in some way by the relatively new pervasive computing paradigm. For example, a person can use a mobile device to obtain its location information at anytime and anywhere. There are several security issues concerning whether this information is reliable in a pervasive environment. For example, a malicious user may disable the localization system by broadcasting a forged location, and it may impersonate other users by eavesdropping their locations. In this paper, we address the verification of location information in a secure manner. We first present the design challenges for location verification, and then propose a two-layer framework VerPer for secure location verification in a pervasive computing environment. Real world GPS-based wireless sensor network experiments confirm the effectiveness of the proposed framework.
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Liu, D., Lee, MC., Wu, D. (2009). A Secure Framework for Location Verification in Pervasive Computing. In: Liu, B., Bestavros, A., Du, DZ., Wang, J. (eds) Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications. WASA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5682. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03417-6_38
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