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Adaptive Security in ODMAC for Multihop Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks

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  • Alessio Di Mauro
  • Xenofon Fafoutis
  • Nicola Dragoni

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Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks (EH-WSNs) represent an interesting new paradigm where individual nodes forming a network are powered by energy sources scavenged from the surrounding environment. This technique provides numerous advantages, but also new design challenges. Securing the communications under energy constraints represents one of these key challenges. The amount of energy available is theoretically infinite in the long run but highly variable over short periods of time, and managing it is a crucial aspect. In this paper we present an adaptive approach for security in multihop EH-WSNs which allows different nodes to dynamically choose the most appropriate energy-affecting parameters such as encryption algorithm and key size, providing in this way energy savings. In order to provide evidence of the approach's feasibility in a real-world network, we have designed and implemented it as extension of on-demand medium access control (ODMAC), a receiver-initiated (RI) MAC protocol specifically designed and developed to address the foundational energy-related needs of Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks.

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  • Alessio Di Mauro & Xenofon Fafoutis & Nicola Dragoni, 2015. "Adaptive Security in ODMAC for Multihop Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks," International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, , vol. 11(4), pages 760302-7603, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:sae:intdis:v:11:y:2015:i:4:p:760302
    DOI: 10.1155/2015/760302
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