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PTSLP: Position Tracking Based Source Location Privacy for Wireless Sensor Networks

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Radio Frequency Identification and IoT Security (RFIDSec 2016)

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Abundant experiments have shown that phantom source nodes cannot leave far away from the real source node. In this paper, we propose a novel position tracking based source location privacy (PTSLP) protection scheme for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). First, we construct a phantom area in order to make phantom source nodes being far from the real source node. Secondly, we combine shortest path routing and random routing to forward packets to sink node rather than deviating from sink node. Then, we make every packet pass through a special area called trace cost area which consists of many sensor nodes with different weights in different areas and finally reach the ring around sink node. Compared with SLP-E, which fails to take overlapping path into consideration, our proposed scheme can reduce overlapping path. Simulation results show that PTSLP can increase safety time and enhance source location privacy in WSNs.

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The work is supported by “Qing Lan Project” and “the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61572172 and No. 61602152” and supported by “the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, No. 2016B10714 and No. 2016B03114 and supported by “Changzhou Sciences and Technology Program, No. CE20165023 and No. CE20160014”.

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Systems, Hohai University, Changzhou, 213022, China

    Hao Wang & Guangjie Han

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada

    Chunsheng Zhu

  3. Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

    Sammy Chan

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Wang, H., Han, G., Zhu, C., Chan, S. (2017). PTSLP: Position Tracking Based Source Location Privacy for Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Hancke, G., Markantonakis, K. (eds) Radio Frequency Identification and IoT Security. RFIDSec 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10155. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62024-4_2

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