Source-location privacy in energy-constrained sensor network routing

As sensor-driven applications become increasingly integrated into our lives, issues related to sensor privacy will become increasingly important. 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 confidentiality of the source sensor’s location. In this paper, we focus on protecting the source’s location by introducing suitable modifications to sensor routing protocols to make it difficult for an adversary to backtrack to the origin of the sensor communication. In particular, we focus on the class of flooding protocols. While developing and evaluating our privacy-aware routing protocols, we jointly consider issues of location-privacy as well as the amount of energy consumed by the sensor network. Motivated by the observations, we propose a flexible routing strategy, known as phantom routing, which protects the source’s location. Phantom routing is a two-stag...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: SASN
• Authors: Celal Ozturk, Yanyong Zhang, Wade Trappe
• Keywords: Routing, SASN 2004, Sensor, Sensor Networks