Location Verification Systems in Emerging Wireless Networks

[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.

[Keywords] location verification; wireless networks; likelihood ratio test; decision rule