Anti-Attack and Channel Aware Target Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks Deployed in Hostile Environments

This paper discusses the attack and communication channel problems of the energy-based target localization method in wireless sensor network. An Anti-Attack and Channel Aware (AACA) target localization method is presented to address the attack problem and the problem of communication channel errors at the same time. Particularly, the AACA method proposed in this paper focuses on the Rayleigh fading channel with coherent receiver. Moreover, the AACA method was compared with the Weighted Average (WA) method under attack and communication channel errors. Results showed that the Root Mean Square (RMS) errors presented by the AACA method were close to the CRLB.