An Enhanced Communication Protocol for Anonymity and Location Privacy in WSN

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) consist of many sensors working as hosts. These sensors can sense a phenomenon and represent it in a form of data. There are many applications for WSNs such as object tracking and monitoring where the objects need protection. Providing an efficient location privacy so...

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Published in2015 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference Workshops (WCNCW) pp. 91 - 96
Main Authors Abuzneid, Abdel-shakour, Sobh, Tarek, Faezipour, Miad
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.03.2015
Subjects
anonymity
Conferences
contextual privacy
Energy efficiency
Internet of things
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Privacy
Silicon
sink privacy
source location privacy
Wireless sensor networks
WSN
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Summary:Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) consist of many sensors working as hosts. These sensors can sense a phenomenon and represent it in a form of data. There are many applications for WSNs such as object tracking and monitoring where the objects need protection. Providing an efficient location privacy solution would be challenging to achieve due to the exposed nature of the WSN. The communication protocol needs to provide location privacy measured by anonymity, observability, capture- likelihood and safety period. We extend this work to allow for countermeasures against semi-global and global adversaries. We present a network model that is protected against a sophisticated passive and active attacks using local, semi-global, and global adversaries.
DOI:10.1109/WCNCW.2015.7122535