An Enhanced Communication Protocol for Location Privacy in WSN

Wireless sensor network (WSN) is built of many sensor nodes. The sensors can sense a phenomenon, which will be represented in a form of data and sent to an aggregator for further processing. WSN is used in many applications, such as object tracking and security monitoring. The objects in many situat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Abdel-Shakour Abuzneid, Tarek Sobh, Miad Faezipour
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-04-01
Series:International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/697098
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Summary:Wireless sensor network (WSN) is built of many sensor nodes. The sensors can sense a phenomenon, which will be represented in a form of data and sent to an aggregator for further processing. WSN is used in many applications, such as object tracking and security monitoring. The objects in many situations need physical and location protection. In addition to the source location privacy, sink location privacy should be provided. Providing an efficient location privacy solution would be challenging due to the open nature of the WSN. Anonymity is a key solution for location privacy. We present a network model that is protected against local, multilocal, and global adversaries that can launch sophisticated passive and active attacks against the WSN.
ISSN:1550-1477