Secured Position Location and Tracking (SPL&T) for Detection of Multiple Malicious Nodes Maintaining Two Friendly References in Mobile Ad hoc Networks

TL;DR

This paper presents a robust and scalable position location and tracking scheme for mobile ad hoc networks that detects multiple malicious nodes using integrated keys and multi-sectored adaptive beamforming, outperforming existing methods.

Contribution

It introduces a novel PL&T technique combining integrated key-based friendly node detection with multi-sectored adaptive beamforming for multiple malicious node tracking.

Findings

The proposed method is more precise and faster than traditional single or multiple reference PL&T methods.

Tracking accuracy decreases with increasing number of beams and lower relative node speeds.

Authentication overhead depends on the frequency of authentication failures.

Abstract

Secured Position Location and Tracking (PL&T) scheme is developed for multiple malicious radios or nodes detection using integrated key based strict friendly scheme and position location and tracking by multi-sectored based multiple target's PL&T. The friendly and malicious nodes detection is based on the integrated key consisting of symmetric keys, geographic location and round trip response time. Two strictly friend references dynamically form the tracking zone over the detected multiple malicious nodes using the multi-sectored adaptive beam forming. This PL&T technique is robust, precise, scalable, and faster than using the single reference, two reference and three reference nodes based PL&T method in the battlefield oriented Mobile Ad hoc Networks. The simulation results show that the lower relative speed bound of any participating node increased the switching overhead, the decreasing received energy with increasing number of the multi-sectored beams reduced tracking accuracy and the strict friendly authentication overhead depends upon the time period between two latest periodic authentication failures.