Destination controlled anonymous routing in resource constrained multihop wireless sensor networks

Abstract

In this paper, a routing protocol is proposed that provides location privacy for the source and the destination as well as user anonymity and unlinkability in multihop wireless sensor networks. The sink is assumed to be computationally powerful and responsible for all routing decisions. It assigns incoming and outgoing labels to nodes in the uplink and downlink directions. Each node is only aware of its own labels and only forwards packets whose labels match either its downlink or uplink incoming label. Moreover, in order to prevent packet tracing by a global eavesdropper, layered cryptography is used in both directions to make a packet look randomly different on different links. However, due to the node capability limitations, only symmetric cryptography is used. © 2007 International Federation for Information Processing.