An Efficient Authenticated Elliptic Curve Cryptography Scheme for Multicore Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

The need to ensure the longevity of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and secure their communication has spurred various researchers to come up with various WSN models. Prime among the methods for extending the life span of WSNs is the clustering of Wireless Sensors (WS), which reduces the workload of WS and thereby reduces its power consumption. However, a drastic reduction in the power consumption of the sensors when multicore sensors are used in combination with sensors clustering has not been well explored. Therefore, this work proposes a WSN model that employs clustering of multicore WS. The existing Elliptic Curve Cryptographic (ECC) algorithm is optimized for parallel execution of the encryption/decryption processes and security against primitive attacks. The Elliptic Curve Diffie-Helman (ECDH) was used for the key exchange algorithm, and the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) was used to authenticate the communicating nodes. Security analysis of the model and comparative performance analysis with the existing ones were demonstrated. The security analysis results reveal that the proposed model meets the security requirements and resists various security attacks. Additionally, the projected model is scalable, energy-conservative, and supports data freshness. The results of comparative performance analysis show that the proposed WSN model can efficiently leverage multiprocessors and/or many cores for quicker execution and conserves power usage.

Survey of Compressive Sensing Techniques Based on Secure Date Aggregation in WSNs

“…Irrespective increased security provided by public-key based encryption techniques (such as ECC, RSA, etc. ); they are not favored for usage on resource-constrained WSN devices [2,3]. The private key-based encryption techniques (such as AES, DES, etc.)…”

Performance Analysis of Two Famous Cryptographic Algorithms on Mixed Data

“…Results indicate that the algorithm is more effective and safer in an IoT-driven setup, making it better suited for data security. Oladipupo et al (2023) proposed a WSN paradigm that uses multicore WS clustering. The current Elliptic Curve Cryptographic (ECC) technique is enhanced for security against simple assaults and parallel execution of the encryption and decryption procedures.…”

A speed‐area‐efficient hardware ECPM‐engine in GF(p) over generic Weierstrass curves

“…Many hardware accelerators of the ECPM are proposed [1,[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. Some researchers focus on lightweight implementation [1,4,5,[8][9][10], developing ECPM processors to accelerate the ECPM operation.…”

“…A flexible dual-field ECC processor using the hardware-software approach is presented by Liu [5]. Javeed [8,9] and Yue [10] explore the speed and area of ECPM on the FPGA platform. The ECPM processors aim at high-speed are proposed by Hossain [6], Xie [7], and Awaludin [3].…”

“…Many hardware accelerators of the ECPM are proposed [1,[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. Some researchers focus on lightweight implementation [1,4,5,[8][9][10], developing ECPM processors to accelerate the ECPM operation. An optimized resource sharing mechanism in combined point doubling and point addition hardware architecture is proposed by Kudithi [4] to reduce hardware resources.…”