ZTE Communications ›› 2013, Vol. 11 ›› Issue (3): 3-10.doi: DOI:10.3939/j.issn.1673-5188.2013.03.001

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Location Verification Systems in Emerging Wireless Networks

Shihao Yan and Robert Malaney   

  1. School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW, Sydney 2052, Australia
  • Received:2013-01-23 Online:2013-09-25 Published:2013-09-25
  • About author:Shihao Yan (shihao.yan@student.unsw.edu.au) is a Ph.D student in the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He received his BS degree in communication engineering and MS degree in communication and information systems from Shandong University, China. His research interests are wireless communications and information theory, including physical layer security, location security and location verification algorithms.

    Robert Malaney (r.malaney@unsw.edu.au) received his BS degree in physics from the University of Glasgow, UK. He received his PhD degree in physics from the University of St. Andrews, U.K. He is currently an associate professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He has previously held positions at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena; the University of California, Berkeley; the US Department of Energy National Laboratories, Washington, DC; and the University of Toronto, Canada. He was a principal research scientist with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia. He has authored more than 100 technical publications and holds several patents.
  • Supported by:
    This work is supported by the University of New South Wales and the Australian Research Council under grant No. DP120102607.

Abstract: As location-based techniques and applications have become ubiquitous in emerging wireless networks, the verification of location information has become more important. In recent years, there has been an explosion of activity related to location-verification techniques in wireless networks. In particular, there has been a specific focus on intelligent transport systems because of the mission-critical nature of vehicle location verification. In this paper, we review recent research on wireless location verification related to vehicular networks. We focus on location verification systems that rely on formal mathematical classification frameworks and show how many systems are either partially or fully encompassed by such frameworks.

Key words: location verification, wireless networks, likelihood ratio test, decision rule