How Do Jamming Attacks Impact the Performance of RSS-Based Localization Techniques?

Pettorru G.;Nurcis G.;Pilloni V.;Martalo' M.

2025-01-01

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Abstract

This paper examines the challenges posed by constructive-destructive interference and Denial of Service (DoS) jamming attacks on multilateration-based localization algorithms, particularly concerning Least Square (LS)-based approaches. Despite the increasing interest in localization technologies in a wide range of applications, the vulnerabilities of these systems to such attacks have been insufficiently explored in existing literature. To evaluate the impact of jamming, scenarios with varying numbers of malicious nodes are considered in this paper to assess their effects on localization accuracy. The results reveal a significant degradation in accuracy as the number of compromised anchors increases. However, the implementation of mitigation strategies leads to a substantial performance improvement, effectively reducing the impact of interference and maintaining lower position estimation errors.