LOTKIP: Low Overhead TKIP Optimization for Ad Hoc Wireless Network
This work addresses energy-efficient security for legacy wireless devices in ad hoc networks, but it is incremental as it optimizes an existing protocol rather than introducing a new paradigm.
The paper tackled the high computational overhead of the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) in ad hoc wireless networks by proposing LOTKIP, an optimized implementation that reduces processing complexity, resulting in faster encryption times and improved energy efficiency compared to baseline TKIP.
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) is a provisional solution for Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) security loopholes present in already widely deployed legacy 802.11 wireless devices. In this work, we model and analyse the computational complexity of TKIP security mechanism and propose an optimised implementation, called LOTKIP, to decrease processing overhead for better energy efficient security performance. The LOTKIP improvements are based on minimising key mixing redundancy and a novel frame encapsulation with low overhead. We simulate and compare LOTKIP with baseline TKIP in terms of complexity and energy consumption for ad hoc wireless network security. From simulation results, we demonstrate that LOTKIP executes with lower computational complexity, hence, with faster encryption time and more energy-efficient.