Energy efficient security protocols for wireless sensor networks : SPINS vs TinySec
Bacem Mbarek, Aref Meddeb · 2016
In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), Security is critical for many sensor network applications, such as military target tracking and security monitoring. In particular, providing authentication to small sensor nodes is challenging, due to the limited capabilities of sensor nodes in terms of computation, communication, memory storage, and energy supply. Therefore, the implementation of authentication techniques for wireless sensor networks generally using encryption algorithms such as Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), DES and RSA have great challenges in WSNs. In this paper, we compare and analyze the most used authentication protocols proposed in literature, i.e. SPINS and TinySec, were analyzed and simulated using NS-2 simulator.