Attack Tolerance Of Rss-Based Fingerprinting

This paper studies the performance of Received Signal Strength (RSS)-based fingerprinting positioning methods under different attack scenarios. We discuss different attack models and we compare the accuracy of a commonly used RSS fingerprinting algorithm with a robust version relying on access node visibility, with respect to those attacks. The results show that the robust fingerprinting method outperforms the traditional fingerprinting method for a particular group of attacks, for two attack types the accuracy improvement, in terms of Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), can yield factor two. RSS-based fingerprinting methods are most susceptible to jamming of access nodes and least vulnerable to random removal of access nodes.