Recent advancements in privacy-aware protocols of source location privacy in wireless sensor networks: a survey

Pradeep Kumar Roy1, Asis Kumar Tripathy2, Sunil Kumar Singh3 and Kuan-Ching Li4

  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering
    Indian Institute of Information Technology, Surat, India
    {pradeep.roy@iiitsurat.ac.in}
  2. School of Information Technology and Engineering
    Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
    {asistripathy@gmail.com}
  3. School of Computer Science and Engineering
    VIT-AP University, Near Vijaywada, Andhra Pradesh, India
    {sksingh.cse@gmail.com}
  4. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE),
    Providence University, Taiwan
    {kuancli@gm.pu.edu.tw}

Abstract

This review article summarises the protocols proposed in recent researches to secure location information in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Due to their lightweightness and easy to deploy properties, WSNs are widely used in numerous object tracking and monitoring applications. Due to such, source location privacy attracts the researchers and hence continuously enhances its improvement. Though, this privacy breach is not acceptable for WSNs, as it may reveal some critical information that is harmful. The SLP issue on WSN attracted researchers a lot, and hence a number of solutions are provided for it. However, an up-to-date survey does not exist for the same. To fill this gap, in this article, we summarize different approaches proposed in the last years to preserve location privacy. We first discuss the different privacy characteristics in WSNs, a detailed overview of the proposed protocols and their limitations, and discussions of solutions for the adversaries’ capabilities in WSNs. Then the future research directions in this area are discussed. This review work may support researchers identifying the new research area in location privacy of wireless sensor networks.

Key words

Wireless sensor networks, Source location privacy, Fake source, Phantom routing, Security

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS211009007R

Publication information

Volume 19, Issue 2 (June 2022)
Year of Publication: 2022
ISSN: 2406-1018 (Online)
Publisher: ComSIS Consortium

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Roy, P. K., Tripathy, A. K., Singh, S. K., Li, K.: Recent advancements in privacy-aware protocols of source location privacy in wireless sensor networks: a survey. Computer Science and Information Systems, Vol. 19, No. 2, 857–886. (2022), https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS211009007R