Enhancing Source-Location Privacy in Sensor Network Routing

— One of the most notable challenges threatening the successful deployment of sensor systems is privacy. Although many privacy-related issues can be addressed by security mechanisms, one sensor network privacy issue that cannot be adequately addressed by network security is source-location privacy. Adversaries may use RF localization techniques to perform hop-by-hop traceback to the source sensor’s location. This paper provides a formal model for the source-location privacy problem in sensor networks and examines the privacy characteristics of different sensor routing protocols. We examine two popular classes of routing protocols: the class of flooding protocols, and the class of routing protocols involving only a single path from the source to the sink. While investigating the privacy performance of routing protocols, we considered the tradeoffs between location-privacy and energy consumption. We found that most of the current protocols cannot provide efficient source-location p...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ICDCS
• Authors: Pandurang Kamat, Yanyong Zhang, Wade Trappe, Celal Ozturk
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, ICDCS 2005, Routing Protocols, Sensor Network Privacy, Source-location Privacy