Imote2 Sensor Network Localization

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IMOTE2 SENSOR NETWORK LOCALIZATION

Welcome to Imote2 Sensor Network Testbed Project

This project currently focuses on designing an Imote2 based sensor network to act as a testbed for evaluating multiple localization algorithms, as well as other network security algorithms in the future. It is also intended to be a hands-on learning tool for students learning about wireless sensor networks.

In its current version, the testbed consists of a set of Crossbow Imote2 nodes programmed with a Linux kernel and running localization and routing codes written in C. One node is connected to a PC via USB and acts as a base node for the network. The PC runs a Java-based GUI intended as an interface for a user to read data from the nodes and to issue commands to the network. The user can control and observe the performance of various localization protocols in the network which are run locally in the Linux operating system on each device. We have made the toolkit, consisting of the GUI as well as the operating and localization software for the individual nodes, freely available to download.

This project was completed at NSL under the guidance of Prof. Radha Poovendran. The graduate students working on this project include Jeffrey Vander Stoep, Sidharth Nabar and Tony Wu.

Relevant Research Publications

Aspect of this tool are based on the following publications

Loukas Lazos and Radha Poovendran, SeRLoc: Secure Range-Independent Localization for Wireless Sensor Networks, 2004 ACM Workshop on Wireless Security (ACM WiSe 2004), Philadelphia, PA.
Loukas Lazos and Radha Poovendran, SeRLoc: Robust Localization for Wireless Sensor Networks, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 73-100, August 2005.
Loukas Lazos, Srdjan Capkun, and Radha Poovendran, ROPE: Robust Position Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks, The Fourth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN '05), April 2005.
Loukas Lazos and Radha Poovendran, HiRLoc: Hi-Resolution Robust Localization for Wireless Sensor Networks, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Special Issue on Network Security, February 2006, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 233-246.
Loukas Lazos and Radha Poovendran, Secure Localization for Wireless Sensor Networks using Range-Independent Methods, in "Secure Localization and Time Synchronization for Wireless Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks", eds. Radha Poovendran, Cliff Wang, and Sumit Roy, Advances in Information Security series, Vol. 30, pp. 185-214, Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-0-387-32721-1.
Secure Localization and Time Synchronization for Wireless Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks, Radha Poovendran, Cliff Wang, and Sumit Roy (ed.), Advances in Information Security series, Vol. 30, Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-0-387-32721-1.

Relevant Theses/Dissertations

Aspect of this tool are based on the following publications

Loukas Lazos, Securing Network Services for Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Summer 2006.
Jeffrey Vander Stoep, Reliable Localization Algorithms Using RSS, Master Thesis, June 2009.

UW EE Department Annual Research Review Articles

This system and the corresponding techniques have been featured in the annual research review of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington as:

Loukas Lazos, Locating Sensors Among Adversaries - SeRLoc to the Rescue, Electrical Engineering Kaleidoscope (EEK), 2006.
Jeffrey Vander Stoep and Patrick Tague, Reliable Location Estimation from Unreliable Signal Strength Measurements, Electrical Engineering Kaleidoscope (EEK), 2009.

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