Fortified Anonymous Communication Protocol for Location Privacy in WSN: A Modular Approach

Sensors

Abdel-Shakour Abuzneid¹  Tarek Sobh¹  Miad Faezipour¹  Ausif Mahmood¹  John James² 

[1]Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT 06604, USA

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[3]Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996, USA

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关键词: WSN;    anonymity;    privacy;    source location privacy;    sink privacy;    contextual privacy;    routing privacy;    temporal privacy;    traffic privacy;    observability;    safety period;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s150305820

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Wireless sensor network (WSN) consists of many hosts called sensors. These sensors can sense a phenomenon (motion, temperature, humidity, average, max, min, etc.) and represent what they sense in a form of data. There are many applications for WSNs including object tracking and monitoring where in most of the cases these objects need protection. In these applications, data privacy itself might not be as important as the privacy of source location. In addition to the source location privacy, sink location privacy should also be provided. Providing an efficient end-to-end privacy solution would be a challenging task to achieve due to the open nature of the WSN. The key schemes needed for end-to-end location privacy are anonymity, observability, capture likelihood, and safety period. We extend this work to allow for countermeasures against multi-local and global adversaries. We present a network model protected against a sophisticated threat model: passive /active and local/multi-local/global attacks. This work provides a solution for end-to-end anonymity and location privacy as well. We will introduce a framework called fortified anonymous communication (FAC) protocol for WSN.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
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