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Simulation test-bed for the evaluation of elliptic curve cryptography on next generation wireless IPv6-enabled networks
Authors: Nelson Enrique Vera Parra, Danilo Alfonso López, Héctor Cristyan Manta Caro
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Currently, mobile networks and next generation
wireless networks such as, IPv6 low-power Wireless
Personal Area networks 6LoWPAN, wireless
sensor networks and hierarchical mobile networks
in IPv6, are under rigorous research and development,
thereforethose networks represent the next
step in the evolution of the Machine-to-Machine
M2M networks, while supporting broadband access
for the next generation of intelligent systems,
technologies and future Internet.
These next generation networks impose restrictions
on the processing power, bandwidth and
energy resources, which represents a major constraint
in the implementation of security mechanisms.
In this regard, in recent years there have
been various proposals for key management,
digital signature procedures and data encryption
based on elliptic and hyper-elliptic curves,
to achieve levels of safety equivalent to convenWLRQDO
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Rivest-Shamir-Adleman RSA, but reducing the
key length and thus the computational and network
resources.
This paper reviews algorithms based on Elliptic
Curves Cryptography ECC and their application
to IPv6-enabled new generation wireless
networks. This paper also describes a simulation
test-bed for the evaluation of ECC, where we
compare computational resources required and
limitations for lightweight security mechanisms
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