• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.219-226
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• 2013

Against the global eavesdropping in wireless sensor networks, tremendous amount of dummy packets for faking are likely to be continuously generated in order to keep the location privacy of the communication source and destination. In our approach only certain disk-shaped zones of encompassing sources and destination are allowed to issue dummy packets during the data transfer so that the amount of generated packets is reduced while the location privacy of the source and destination remains secret. To this end we design a routing protocol and propose a detailed formal specification of it, and verify major characteristics.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.379-387
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• 2013

In large-scale wireless sensor networks, tremendous amount of dummy packets is usually accompanied by keeping location privacy of the communication source and destination against global eavesdropping. In our earlier work we designed a location privacy routing protocol, ELPR(End-node Location Privacy Routing) in which the generation of dummy packets at each idle time-slot while transferring data packets are restricted to only the nodes within certain areas of encompassing the source and destination, respectively. In this paper, it is given that ELPR provides various degrees of location privacy while PCM(Periodic Collection Method) allows the only fixed level. Simulation results show that as the number of nodes or data packets increases ELPR permits in terms of the number of generated packets more cost-effective location privacy than PCM.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.433-438
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• 2020

Nodes on a data communication path in a wireless network emit electro-magnetic waves whenever they transmit packets; thus, the path can be exposed and identified with capturing and analyzing a sequence of the signals emitted there. One of countermeasures against a malicious eavesdropper is to let certain nodes mimic the nodes on the data path in sending dummy packets. In this paper we propose a packet transfer protocol which establishes the shortest path between source-destination pair a time and restricts heavy generation of dummy packets. We verify the location-privacy of a node on the communication paths through simulation.