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Information-theoretic approach for secure localization against sybil attack in wireless sensor network

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The sensed data have limited or no use without knowing the location. So, estimating the location of sensors is an issue in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). However, WSNs are vulnerable to malicious attacks like sybil attack affecting the accuracy of localization by forging one or many anchor identities. In this paper, an information-theoretic approach is used to detect if anchors are compromised by sybil attack. This technique can be adopted by any localization algorithm to yield secure localization against sybil attack in WSNs. Simulation results claim that it improves accuracy of localization even with sybil attack.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, India

    Arindam Giri

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, India

    Subrata Dutta

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

    Sarmistha Neogy

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Giri, A., Dutta, S. & Neogy, S. Information-theoretic approach for secure localization against sybil attack in wireless sensor network. J Ambient Intell Human Comput 12, 9491–9497 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-020-02690-9

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