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Sensors 2010, 10, 4577-4601; doi:10.3390/s100504577 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Review Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey Rabindra Bista * and Jae-Woo Chang Department of Computer Engineering, Chonbuk National University, Chonju, Chonbuk 561-756, Korea; E-Mail: jwchang@chonbuk.ac.kr * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: rabindra@dblab.chonbuk.ac.kr; Tel.: +82-63-270-4580; Fax: +82-63-270-2394. Received: 10 March 2010; in revised form: 6 April 2010 / Accepted: 28 April 2010 / Published: 4 May 2010 Abstract: Many wireless sensor network (WSN) applications require privacy-preserving aggregation of sensor data during transmission from the source nodes to the sink node. In this paper, we explore several existing privacy-preserving data aggregation (PPDA) protocols for WSNs in order to provide some insights on their current status. For this, we evaluate the PPDA protocols on the basis of such metrics as communication and computation costs in order to demonstrate their potential for supporting privacy-preserving data aggregation in WSNs. In addition, based on the existing research, we enumerate some important future research directions in the field of privacy-preserving data aggregation for WSNs. Keywords: wireless sensor networks; privacy-preserving data aggregation; eavesdropping; accuracy; energy efficiency 1. Introduction Recently, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) [1-5] have been regarded as not only one of the eight technologies that could save the world [6], along with nuclear waste neutralizers, but also one of the ten emerging technologies that will change the world [7]. A WSN consists of a large number of spatially distributed autonomous resource-constrained tiny sensor devices [8] which are used to  Sensors 2010, 10 4578 cooperatively monitor physical or environmental