TY - CHAP
T1 - C-Sec: Energy efficient link layer encryption protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
AU - Moh'd, Abidalrahman
AU - Aslam, Nauman
AU - Robertson, William
AU - Phillips, William
N1 - 2012 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference(CCNC)held in Las Vegas from 14-17 June 2012
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In this paper, we introduce Compact-Security (C-Sec), an energy efficient link layer encryption protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The protocol minimizes energy consumption by eliminating the need for transmitting all header and trailer fields related to security, while keeping security functions and services intact. Such fields include message authentication code, freshness counter, and source address. Our work relies on merging security related data with the essential headers of the next packet. This will dramatically reduce security related communication overhead. In addition, it includes a unique security feature that does not exist in any of the current protocols: hiding the packet header information. C-Sec is implemented using Very high speed integrated circuit Hardware Description Language (VHDL). Experimental results using synthesis for Spartan-6 low-power FPGA demonstrates that the proposed protocol outperforms related work in terms of computational time and energy consumption, in addition to the large savings in communication energy and bandwidth.
AB - In this paper, we introduce Compact-Security (C-Sec), an energy efficient link layer encryption protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The protocol minimizes energy consumption by eliminating the need for transmitting all header and trailer fields related to security, while keeping security functions and services intact. Such fields include message authentication code, freshness counter, and source address. Our work relies on merging security related data with the essential headers of the next packet. This will dramatically reduce security related communication overhead. In addition, it includes a unique security feature that does not exist in any of the current protocols: hiding the packet header information. C-Sec is implemented using Very high speed integrated circuit Hardware Description Language (VHDL). Experimental results using synthesis for Spartan-6 low-power FPGA demonstrates that the proposed protocol outperforms related work in terms of computational time and energy consumption, in addition to the large savings in communication energy and bandwidth.
KW - cryptographic protocols
KW - energy efficiency
KW - security
KW - wireless sensor networks
UR - http://capitadiscovery.co.uk/northumbria-ac/items/1685441
UR - http://capitadiscovery.co.uk/northumbria-ac/items/1685441
U2 - 10.1109/CCNC.2012.6181090
DO - 10.1109/CCNC.2012.6181090
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-1457720703
SP - 219
EP - 223
BT - 2012 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC)
PB - IEEE
CY - Piscataway, NJ
ER -