iPDA: An integrity-protecting private data aggregation scheme for wireless sensor networks

Data aggregation is an efficient mechanism widely used in wireless sensor networks (WSN) to collect statistics about data of interests. However, the shared-medium nature of communication makes the WSNs are vulnerable to eavesdropping and packet tampering/injection by adversaries. Hence, how to protect data privacy and data integrity are two major challenges for data aggregation in wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we present iPDA- an integrity-protecting private data aggregation scheme. In iPDA, data privacy is achieved through data slicing and assembling technique; and data integrity is achieved through redundancy by constructing disjoint aggregation paths/trees to collect data of interests. In iPDA, the data integrity-protection and data privacy-preservation mechanisms work synergistically. We evaluate the performance of iPDA scheme in terms of communication overhead and data aggregation accuracy, comparing with a typical data aggregation scheme - TAG, where no integrity protection and privacy preservation is provided. Simulation results show that iPDA achieves the design goals while still maintains the efficiency of data aggregation.