Investigating the Influence of Routing Scheme Algorithms on the Source Location Privacy Protection and Network Lifetime

There exist numerous strategies for Source Location Privacy (SLP) routing schemes. In this study, an experimental analysis of a few routing schemes is done to investigate the influence of the routing scheme algorithms on the privacy protection level and the network lifetime performance. The analysis involved four categories of SLP routing schemes. Analysis results revealed that the algorithms used in the representative schemes for tree-based and angle-based routing schemes incur the highest influence. The tree-based algorithm stimulates the highest energy consumption with the lowest network lifetime while the angle-based algorithm does the opposite. Moreover, for the tree-based algorithm, the influence is highly dependent on the region of the network domain.