Review Article

Privacy Models in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey

Table 4

Network assumptions: source and sink issues.

Sensors: static/moving Sensors: known info Sensors: behavior Sensors: capabilities Server/sink

[44] One, static, or moving
[39] Shared key with sink Cluster head and cluster members
[30] PK server Set of independent, mutually untrusted servers
[22] Global secret
[28] Own location Server location Cooperate among themselves Untrusted server
[25] They broadcast fake messages
[52]
[29] Moving sensors (uniform constant speed)
[31] Shared key with an “operator” which works through a gateway (or directly if it is close enough) Leaf nodes and aggregator nodes
[21] Static ones and moving ones (data mules) Own location (data mules) Data mules do not communicate with each other. They move randomly Greater communication coverage (data mules)
[34]
[20] Own location, neighbours location, sink location
[49] Leaf nodes and aggregator nodes One
[53] Moving
[16]
[46] One
[50] Static Unique ID Cluster heads randomly chosen
[35] Predistributed shared key with any other node and with the base station
[54] Static (same cluster) Cluster head and cluster members Unconstrained
[13] Privacy-enhanced base station
[14] They can masquerade their MAC They are synchronized One
[24] Cell ID Cluster head and cluster members
[38] Area ID
[18] One real, several fake
[47] Static ones and moving ones From low resources to high resources
[48]
[26]
[42] ID and location One
[27] Shared key with sink Moving
[45] Cluster heads and cluster members
[15] Static Limited Static
[19] Static Unique ID, shared key with sink, key for IBC Limited Static
[32] Unique ID, shared key with user Synchronized with sink Several, untrusted
[23] One but several allowed
[17] Public key of owner and TTP
[43] Shared key with neighbours One
[36] Long-term key shared with the sink Vulnerable to tampering High resource, tamper-resistant
[33] Synchronized with sink One
[37] Unconstrained Secure channel with authentication server
[40] Leaf nodes and aggregator nodes
[41] Leaf nodes and aggregator nodes