Title :
An Enhanced Communication Protocol for Anonymity and Location Privacy in WSN
Author :
Abuzneid, Abdel-shakour ; Sobh, Tarek ; Faezipour, Miad
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, USA
Abstract :
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.
Keywords :
protocols; telecommunication security; wireless sensor networks; WSN; active attacks; anonymity; capture-likelihood; communication protocol enhancement; global adversaries; local adversaries; location privacy; object tracking; observability; passive attacks; safety period; semiglobal adversaries; wireless sensor networks; Conferences; Energy efficiency; Internet of things; Nickel; Privacy; Silicon; Wireless sensor networks; WSN; anonymity; contextual privacy; privacy; sink privacy; source location privacy;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications and Networking Conference Workshops (WCNCW), 2015 IEEE
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA
DOI :
10.1109/WCNCW.2015.7122535