“…Depending on the equipped sensing units, wireless sensor nodes can measure various physical characteristics, such as sound, temperature, pressure, etc. A number of wireless sensor nodes can be organized into clusters to track a particular object or monitor the surrounding environment in an interested area [1,2,22,26]. In many applications, such as target tracking, battlefield surveillance and intruder detection, wireless sensor networks are often deployed in hostile environments, therefore, the sensitive data and sensor readings should be protected properly [4,14,21,24,25].…”