Exploiting architectural techniques for boosting base-station anonymity in wireless sensor networks

International Journal of Sensor Networks

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 215-227

  Ren, Zhong ^a   Younis, Mohamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Location privacy; Traffic analysis; Wireless sensor networks; anonymity; WSNs

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; SENSOR NODES;

ANONYMITY; HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS; LOCATION PRIVACY; MISSION CRITICAL APPLICATIONS; MULTIPLE BASIS; POTENTIAL THREATS; SENSORS DATA; TRADE OFF; TRAFFIC ANALYSIS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK;;

BASE STATIONS;

EID: 84861855458     PISSN: 17481279     EISSN: 17481287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSNET.2012.047150     Document Type: Article

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