Implementation of Data Transportation Protocol Depending on the Lightweight Cipher Algorithms

Abstract

Lightweight cryptography (LWC) takes a novel approach to produce security for low-power devices and constrained applications such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and Wireless Sensor Node (WSN). In these WSN and IoT applications, whole nodes communicate with each other over a network; therefore, there are opportunities to penetrate this node via the extrinsic attack. The most important thing here is to preserve this node from all kinds of extrinsic attacks considering the hardware implementation and memory size. Considering the above problem, finding a proposal that transfers data and ensures that it is not stolen or tampered is necessary. This proposal has been based on previous lightweight encryption algorithms. The proposal transferred the data (in xml data formats) between the start and end nodes with the least nodes. This provided a speed in the transfer process, which led to a significant improvement in data security. Essentially lightweight cipher provides the security at the node level only. We also calculated the execution time of these five lightweight algorithms, the time of data transfer, and the number of nodes for transport data.