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Enhancing source location protection in wireless sensor networks

  • Dalian Maritime University
  • Harbin Institute of Technology Weihai

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Abstract

Wireless sensor networks are widely deployed in the internet of things to monitor valuable objects. Once the object is monitored, the sensor nearest to the object which is known as the source informs the base station about the object's information periodically. It is obvious that attackers can capture the object successfully by localizing the source. Thus, many protocols have been proposed to secure the source location. However, in this paper, we examine that typical source location protection protocols generate not only near but also highly localized phantom locations. As a result, attackers can trace the source easily from these phantom locations. To address these limitations, we propose a protocol to enhance the source location protection (SLE). With phantom locations far away from the source and widely distributed, SLE improves source location anonymity significantly. Theory analysis and simulation results show that our SLE provides strong source location privacy preservation and the average safety period increases by nearly one order of magnitude compared with existing work with low communication cost.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSixth International Conference on Electronics and Information Engineering
EditorsQiang Zhang
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510600294
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event6th International Conference on Electronics and Information Engineering, ICEIE 2015 - Dalian, China
Duration: 26 Sep 201527 Sep 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume9794
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

Conference6th International Conference on Electronics and Information Engineering, ICEIE 2015
Country/TerritoryChina
CityDalian
Period26/09/1527/09/15

Keywords

  • internet of things
  • privacy protection
  • security
  • source location
  • wireless sensor networks

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