@InProceedings{Gu:2017:PhantomWalkaboutsWireless, author = "Gu, Chen and Bradbury, Matthew and Jhumka, Arshad", booktitle = "Proceedings of the Symposium on Applied Computing", title = "{Phantom Walkabouts in Wireless Sensor Networks}", year = "2017", address = "Marrakech, Morocco", month = "03--07 April", pages = "609--616", publisher = "ACM", series = "SAC'17", abstract = "As wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been applied across a spectrum of application domains, the problem of source location privacy (SLP) has emerged as a significant issue, particularly in security-critical situations. In the seminal work on SLP, phantom routing was proposed as a viable approach to address SLP. However, recent work has shown some limitations of phantom routing such as poor performance with multiple sources. In this paper, we propose phantom walkabouts, a novel version and more general version of phantom routing, which performs phantom routes of variable lengths. Through extensive simulations we show that phantom walkabouts provides high SLP levels with a low message overhead and hence, low energy usage.", acmid = "3019732", doi = "10.1145/3019612.3019732", file = ":SAC-NET2017.pdf:PDF", isbn = "978-1-4503-4486-9", keywords = "phantom routing, phantom walkabouts, routing, source location privacy, wireless sensor networks", numpages = "8" }