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Securing Wireless Body Sensor Networks using Bijective Function-based Hardware Primitive

Ethiopia Nigussie, Teng Xu, Miodrag Potkonjak, Securing Wireless Body Sensor Networks using Bijective Function-based Hardware Primitive. In: Marimuthu Swami Palaniswami, Hwee Pink Tan (Eds.), 2015 IEEE Tenth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP), 1–6, IEEE, 2015.

Abstract:

We present a novel lightweight hardware security primitive for wireless body sensor networks (WBSNs). Security of WBSNs is crucial and the security solution must be lightweight due to resource constraints in the body senor nodes. The presented security primitive is based on digital implementation of bidirectional bijective function. The one-to-one input-output mapping of the function is realized using a network of lookup tables (LUTs). The bidirectionality of the function enables implementation
of security protocols with lower overheads. The configuration of the interstage interconnection between the LUTs serves as
the shared secret key. Authentication, encryption/decryption and message integrity protocols are formulated using the proposed
security primitive. NIST randomness benchmark suite is applied to this security primitive and it passes all the tests. It also achieves
higher throughput and requires less area than AES-CCM.

BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{inpNiXuPo15a,
  title = {Securing Wireless Body Sensor Networks using Bijective Function-based Hardware Primitive},
  booktitle = {2015 IEEE Tenth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP)},
  author = {Nigussie, Ethiopia and Xu, Teng and Potkonjak, Miodrag},
  editor = {Palaniswami, Marimuthu Swami and Tan, Hwee Pink},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  pages = {1–6},
  year = {2015},
}

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