Low-cost standard signatures for energy-harvesting wireless sensor networks

Giuseppe Ateniese; Giuseppe Bianchi; Angelo T. Capossele; Chiara Petrioli; Dora Spenza

doi:10.1145/2994603

Low-cost standard signatures for energy-harvesting wireless sensor networks

Giuseppe Ateniese, Giuseppe Bianchi, Angelo T. Capossele, Chiara Petrioli, Dora Spenza

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Abstract

This work is motivated by a general question: can micro-scale energy-harvesting techniques be exploited to support low-cost standard security solutions on resource-constrained devices? We focus on guaranteeing integrity and authentication in Internet of Things (IoT) and Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications. In this article, we propose techniques to make ECDSA signatures low cost and implementable on resourceconstrained devices. By combining precomputation techniques and energy-harvesting capabilities of modern sensor nodes, we achieve significant improvement over prior works. In addition, we show that the cost of ECDSA signatures can be reduced by up to a factor 10 by using harvesting-Aware optimizations.

Original language	English
Article number	2994603
Journal	ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems
Volume	16
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2994603
State	Published - Apr 2017

Keywords

Energy harvesting
Iot and wsns security
Low-energy authentication
Low-energy digital signatures
Ultra-low-energy systems
Wireless sensor networks

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