DOI: 10.4018/IJISP.2019010106 International Journal of Information Security and Privacy Volume 13 • Issue 1 • January-March 2019  Copyright©2019,IGIGlobal.CopyingordistributinginprintorelectronicformswithoutwrittenpermissionofIGIGlobalisprohibited.  70 Efficient Routing Protocol for Location Privacy Preserving in Internet of Things Rajwinder Kaur, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer, India Karan Verma, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer, India Shelendra Kumar Jain, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer, India Nishtha Kesswani, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer, India ABSTRACT InternetofThingsisanormwhichhasexpandedveryswiftlywithhighmagnitudeofheterogeneityand functionalities.SecurityandprivacybecametheprimefactorsofInternetofThingsduetounsecured characterofwirelesscommunication.Thus,becauseofunsecurednetwork,itiseasyforinvadersto traceandfindthepositionofnodesduringcommunicationandleaktheinformation.Issuesrelated tolocationinformationmayincludesharingofinformation,storage,sensing,andprocessingwhich canbeusedbyexternalentitiesindifferentcontexts,i.e.contextscanbe:technical,legal,andsocial. Theseissuesmakeprivacyamajorconcern.Here,theresearchthisarticlepresentsnotionsofexisting privacymodelsandtheamplifiedtechniquesusingarandompath.Thearticlethendescribespossible solutionstopreservethelocationofnodeswithlesstransmissiontime.Resultsofproposedscheme depicteffectualbehavioroftheapproach. KEywoRdS Internet of Things, Location Privacy, Monitoring, Random Paths, Routing Table, Security, Sensors, Tracking INTRodUCTIoN InternetofThingsisanormofconnectingthewholeworldthroughnetworkwiththehelpofsensors, different telecommunication interfaces which are entirely dependent upon wireless technologies. RFID(RadioFrequencyIdentification),WSN(WirelessSensorNetworks)(Sicarietal.,2015)and NFC(NearFieldCommunication)technologiesareplayingapivotalroleinInternetofThings(IoT) infrastructures.TheconcernsoftheInternetofThingsaretoallowthingstobeconnectedubiquitous (anytime,anyplace,withanythingandanyone)orpreferablyusinganypath/networkandanyservice. Thus,themainobjectiveoftheIoTistoprovidebetterqualityofservicestousersandtomarkdownthe costofresourcescanactasanimportantstepcloseto“SmartWorld”(Vasilomanolakisetal.,2015). SmartCityisthebiggerpartofIoTanditincludessmartcommunication,emergencymanagement, healthmonitoring,smartvehicleparking,smartroads,context-basedvehiclemaintenance,smart wastemanagement,smartgrid,smartretailsandmanymoreapplications.InthescenarioofIoT,all theobjectsconnectprobablywiththeinternetwhichcreatestheinterconnectionbetweenthetwo