Analysis of hardware encryption versus software encryption on wireless sensor network motes

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering

Volumn 20 LNEE, Issue , 2008, Pages 3-14

  Healy, Michael ^a   Newe, Thomas ^a   Lewis, Elfed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

AES; CC2420; Sensor data security; wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

MILITARY APPLICATIONS; NETWORK SECURITY; RADIO TRANSCEIVERS; SENSOR NODES; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

CC2420; CIPHER ALGORITHMS; ENCRYPTION ALGORITHMS; ENCRYPTION PROCEDURE; HARDWARE PLATFORM; SENSOR DATA; SOFTWARE ENCRYPTION; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION;

CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 79956325553     PISSN: 18761100     EISSN: 18761119     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-79590-2_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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