Benchmarking Block Ciphers for Wireless Sensor Networks (Extended Abstract)

Yee Wei Law, Jeroen Doumen, Pieter Hartel

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    The energy efficiency requirement of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is especially high because the sensor nodes are meant to operate without human intervention for a long period of time with little energy supply. Besides, available storage is scarce due to their small physical size. Therefore choosing the most storage- and energy-efficient block cipher for WSNs is important. However to our knowledge so far, no systematic work has been conducted in this area. In this paper, we have identified the candidates of block ciphers suitable for WSNs based on existing literature and authoritative recommendations. We have benchmarked these candidates and based on this benchmark, we have selected the suitable ciphers for WSNs, namely Rijndael for high security and energy efficiency requirements; but MISTY1 for good storage and energy efficiency. In terms of operation mode, we recommend Output Feedback Mode for static networks, but Counter Mode for dynamic networks.
    Original languageEnglish
    Place of PublicationEnschede
    PublisherCentre for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT)
    Number of pages10
    Publication statusPublished - Feb 2005

    Publication series

    NameCTIT Technical Report Series
    PublisherCentre for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT)
    No.05-07
    ISSN (Print)1381-3625

    Keywords

    • SCS-Cybersecurity

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    • Benchmarking Block Ciphers for Wireless Sensor Networks

      Law, Y. W., Doumen, J. & Hartel, P., 2004, 2004 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, p. 447-456 10 p.

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