PSSPR: A Source Location Privacy Protection Scheme Based on Sector Phantom Routing in WSNs

Source location privacy (SLP) protection is an emerging research topic in wireless sensor networks. Because the source location represents the valuable information of the target being monitored and tracked, it is of great practical significance to achieve a high degree of privacy of the source location. Although many studies based on phantom nodes have alleviates the protection of SLP to some extent. It is urgent to solve the problems, such as complicate the ac path between nodes, improve the centralized distribution of phantom nodes near the source nodes and reduce the network communication overhead. In this paper, protection scheme based on sector phantom routing (PSSPR) routing is proposed as a visible approach to address SLP issues. We use the coordinates of the center node  to divide sector domain, which act an important role in generating a new phantom node. The phantom nodes perform specified routing policies to ensure that they can choose various locations. In addition, the directed random route can ensure that data packets avoid the visible range when they move to the sink node hop by hop. Thus, the source location is protected. Theoretical analysis and simulation experiments show that this protocol achieves higher security of source node location with less communication overhead.