A Novel and Efficient Priority-Based Cross-Layer Contextual Unobservability Scheme Against Global Attacks for WMSNs

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Title

A Novel and Efficient Priority-Based Cross-Layer Contextual Unobservability Scheme Against Global Attacks for WMSNs

Subject

Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network (WMSN)
Contextual Unobservability
Source/Sink Location Privacy
image processing
Global Attacks
Priority Packet Dropping
and Cross-layer Optimization

Description

Even though many security schemes proposed for wireless sensor networks protect transmitted data content from being revealed to different types of attacks and fulfill most of the desired security requirements, they are not addressing concealing the privacy of the contextual information. Contextual information such as event occurrence, event time, and event location can be exposed to an adversary by just monitoring network packet transmission. This kind of information is very important because it can leak location information of key nodes or even detected events themselves. Therefore, proposing a contextual unobservability scheme is a challenging task in sensor networks considering many issues: the broadcast nature of the wireless channel, the different attacker models, the network resource constraints, and the overhead on system performance. Most of the existing location privacy schemes are not addressing all these issues and are either not efficient against global adversaries or degrade significantly network performance. Thus in this paper, we propose an efficient location contextual anonymity scheme for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network (WMSN) that exploits the cross-layer joint design among the application, routing, and MAC layers. Our proposed location unobservability scheme combines the source coding technique, probabilistic packet transmission, multipath routing, and priority-based dropping policy to enhance the efficiency level of the provided privacy service without noticeably affecting the Quality of Service (QoS) requirement for delivering multimedia content in WMSN. Performance evaluation results show that our proposed privacy mechanism outperforms other proposed location privacy techniques in terms of privacy efficiency (safety period) and network performance (end-to-end delay and energy consumption).

Creator

Almalkawi, Islam T.
Raed, Jafar
Alsarhan, Ayoub
Abdallah, Alaa
Abdallah, Emad

Source

International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM); Vol. 15 No. 03 (2021); pp. 43-69
1865-7923

Publisher

International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria

Date

2021-02-12

Rights

Copyright (c) 2021 Islam T. Almalkawi, Ayoub Alsarhan, Jafar Raed, Alaa Abdallah, Emad Abdallah

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Format

application/pdf

Language

eng

Type

info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article

Identifier

Citation

Islam Almalkawi T. et al., A Novel and Efficient Priority-Based Cross-Layer Contextual Unobservability Scheme Against Global Attacks for WMSNs, International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria, 2021, accessed November 23, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/1858

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