A novel security algorithm ECC‐L for wireless sensor network

Abstract

Wireless communication has poised to become one of the most predominant area of research in the field of communication engineering. Wireless Sensor Network also plays a significant role in shaping and linking IoT and communication era. The proposed work considers the two most influential parameters, the power consumption and security, for accessing the performance of Wireless Sensor Network. A novel security algorithm Rabin based Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem ‐ Linear (ECC‐L) has been designed, implemented and compared with existing ECC algorithm. The proposed algorithm uses double binding hash code technique. It supports sensor nodes with bio hash code for identification of authorization network to share the data. The impact of increase in number of nodes to the key performance metrics of WSN like, energy, packet loss, delay, throughput etc., is measured on ECC and proposed ECC‐L by performing simulations. Qualitatively, the metrics show peak performance and significant performance improvement compared to ECC algorithm in terms of reduction in the packet loss, obtaining maximum throughput, avoidance of retransmissions and enhancement of energy efficiency in wireless sensor network. Quantitatively, the simulation results show that the proposed Rabin ECC‐L algorithm perform enhanced better than the existing ECC algorithm for the impact of increase in number of nodes on reduction of control overheads by 21%, reduction in energy consumption by 27%, decrease in packet losses by 13%, increase in throughput by 32% and decrease in average delay by 32%.