Title: Preserving source and destination location privacy with controlled routing protocol

Authors: Rajorshi Biswas; Jie Wu

Addresses: Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA ' Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA

Abstract: Efficiency in routing and security are two competitive design issues in wireless sensor networks. The most efficient and least secure routing protocol is shortest path routing. On the other hand, the most secure and least efficient routing protocol is random routing. In this paper, we propose the controlled routing protocol, a mixture of these two routing protocols that maintains a good balance between security and efficiency. Our proposed protocol is based on two principles: if all the messages do not follow the same path, then backtracking to the source node is not possible and when an adversary is very far away from the source and destination locations, then efficiency is more important than security. Based on these principles, we proposed the controlled routing protocol, in which the forwarding node forwards the message either to the node on the shortest path or a random neighbour with a variable probability. The probability of taking the shortest path increases by distance from the source and the destination node. In this paper, we also present our simulation results compared to other routing protocols.

Keywords: source location privacy; security; random routing; routing protocol; controlled routing protocol.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSN.2018.093553

International Journal of Security and Networks, 2018 Vol.13 No.3, pp.187 - 198

Received: 27 Nov 2017
Accepted: 06 Jan 2018
Published online: 27 Jul 2018 *

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