Intelligent Silent Zone for Source-Location Privacy Based on Context-Awareness in WSNs

摘要

In many wireless sensor networks(WSNs)applications,the preservation of source-location privacy plays a critical role in concealing context information,otherwise the monitored entities or subjects may be put in danger. Many traditional solutions have been proposed based on the creation of random routes,such as random walk and fake sources approach,which will lead to serious packet delay and high energy consumption.Instead of applying the routing in a blind way,this article proposes a novel solution for source location privacy in WSNs by utilizing sensor ability of perceiving the presence a mobile attacker nearby,for patient attackers in particular to increase the safety period and decrease the data delivery delay.The proposed strategy forms an intelligent silent zone(ISZ)by sacrificing only a minority of sensor nodes to entice patient attackers away from real packet routing path.The anal-ysis and simulation results show that the proposed scheme,besides providing source location privacy energy effi-ciently,can significantly reduce real event reporting latency compared with the existing approaches.