Secure geographic routing in ad hoc and wireless sensor networks

  • Authors:
  • Mariano García-Otero;Theodore Zahariadis;Federico Álvarez;Helen C. Leligou;Adrián Población-Hernández;Panagiotis Karkazis;Francisco J. Casajús-Quirós

  • Affiliations:
  • Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain;Technological Educational Institute of Chalkida, Psahna Evias, Chalkida, Greece;Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain;Technological Educational Institute of Chalkida, Psahna Evias, Chalkida, Greece;Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain;Technological Educational Institute of Chalkida, Psahna Evias, Chalkida, Greece;Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on signal processing-assisted protocols and algorithms for cooperating objects and wireless sensor networks
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

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.