Email this article 
Open Access
Subscription or Fee Access
Light Weight Encryption Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Network
Abstract
Sensor devices have critical resource constraints such as processing speed, memory size and energy supply. Especially, energy consumption affects the network lifetime so that energy efficiency is an important requirement for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). It means that it is a considerable matter to choose the energy- and memory-efficient cryptographic algorithm suitable for wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we implement an Energy Efficient Encryption Algorithm with 64-bit block length and 128-bit key length with basic operations like exclusive-OR (XOR) and shifting. It provides low-resource hard-ware implementation, which is proper to sensor devices. It does not only consist of simple operations but also has enough security as a good encryption algorithm. The reduction in the hardware resources also decreases the power consumption of the Wireless Sensor Network.
Keywords
References
Sang-Eon Lee, Sang-Ho Shin, Geum-Dal Park and Kee-Young Yoo, “Wireless Sensor Network Protocols for Secure and Energy-Efficient Data Transmission” Proceedings of the CISIM'08 on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications, 26-28 June 2008.
Zoran S. Bojkovic, Bojan M. Bakmaz, and Miodrag R. Bakmaz “Security Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks” in International Journal of Communications, Issue 1, Volume 2, pp.1
Jongdeog Lee, Krasimira Kapitanova and Sang H. Son, “The price of security in wireless sensor networks”, Computer Networks 54 (2010) pp.2967–2978.
Deukjo Hong, Jaechul Sung, Seokhie Hong, Jongin Lim and Sangjin Lee “HIGHT: A New Block Cipher Suitable for Low-Resource Device”, Proceedings of the Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES) Volume 4249, in 2006, pp.46-59
Mohammad AL-Rousan, A. Rjoub and Ahmad Baset, “A Low-Energy Security Algorithm for Exchanging Information in Wireless Sensor Networks” Published in Journal of Information Assurance and Security4 (2009), pp.48-59.
Woo Kwon Koo, Hwaseong Lee, Yong Ho Kim and Dong Hoon Lee, “Implementation and Analysis of New Lightweight Cryptographic Algorithm Suitable for Wireless Sensor Networks”, Proceeding of International Conference on Information Security and Assurance, 2008.
Sounak Samanta, “FPGA Implementation of AES Encryption and Decryption”, in an International Conference on “Control, Automation, Communication and Energy Conservation, June 2009.
Jason Van Dyken and José G. Delgado-Frias, “FPGA Schemes for Minimizing the Power-Throughput Trade-off in Executing the Advanced Encryption Standard Algorithm”, Published in Journal of Systems Architecture 56 (2010), pp.116–123.
Gil-Ho Kim, Jong-Nam Kim and Gyeong-Yeon Cho, “An improved RC6 algorithm with the same structure of encryption and decryption”,
Proceeding of ICACT on 11th International Conference of Advanced Communication Technology, 2009, Volume 2, pp.1211 – 1215.
B.S. Kaliski Jr., Y.L. Yin, On the security of the RC5 encryption algorithm, RSA Laboratories, September 2006, TR-602, Version 1.0.
Paris Kitsos and Odysseas Koufopavlou, “Configurable Hardware Implementations of Bulk Encryption Units for Wireless Communications”, Published in International Arab Journal of Information Technology, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 2004.
ASIC Official Website : http://www.asic-world.com
Y. Wang, G. Attebury, B. Ramamurthy, "A Survey of Security Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Volume.8, No.2, pp. 2-23, 2006.
Refbacks
- There are currently no refbacks.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.