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Achieving Better Privacy Protection in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Trusted Computing 1 2 1 1 Yanjiang Yang , Robert H. Deng , Jianying Zhou , and Ying Qiu 1 Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore 119613 2 School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University Abstract. A wireless sensor network (WSN) is an ad-hoc wireless net- work composed of small sensor nodes deployed in large numbers. Sensor nodes are usually severely resource limited and power constrained. Se- curity enforcement in WSNs is thus a challenging task. In this paper we propose a clustered heterogeneous architecture for WSNs, where high- end cluster heads are incorporated, and they are further equipped with trusted computing technology (TC). As such, the cluster heads act as trusted parties, and are expected to help effectively address privacy is- sues in WSNs. As concrete examples, we discuss in details how user query privacy and source location privacy can be better protected. 1 Introduction A WSN consists of a large number of sensor nodes collecting environmental data. The nodes are usually severely constrained in computation, storage, communi- cation and power resources. When deployed in critical applications, mechanisms must be in place to secure a WSN. Security issues associated with WSNs can be categorized into two broad classes [24]: content-related security, and contextual security. Content-related security deals with security issues related to the con- tent of data traversing the sensor network such as data secrecy, integrity, and key exchange. Numerous efforts have recently been dedicated to content-related security issues, such as secure routing [16,17,22,32], key manage