Secure Data Transmission over Insecure Radio Channel in Wireless of Things (WoT) Network

Abstract

Potential capacity of processors is enhancing rapidly which leads to the increase of computational ability of the adversary. As a result, the required key size for conventional encryption techniques is growing everyday for complex unbreakable security communication systems. The Public Key Cryptography (PKC) techniques which use larger keys cannot be fitted in tiny resource constrained Wireless of Things (WoT) devices. Some Symmetric Key Cryptosystems (SKC) use smaller keys, which can be fitted in the tiny devices. But in large networks where the number of nodes is in the order of 103, the memory constraint does not allow the system to do so. The existing secure data communication in insecure medium uses various conventional encryption methods like Public Key Cryptography (PKC) and Symmetric Key Cryptosystems (SKC). Generally, modern encryption methods need huge processing power, memory and time. Also in some cases, Key Pre-distribution System (KPS) is used among different communicating devices. With the growing need for larger key size in the conventional secure communication system, the existing resources in the communicating devices suffer from resource starvation. Hence, the need of a novel mechanism for secure communication is inevitable. But the existing secure communication mechanisms like PKC, SKC or KPS do not ensure elimination of resource starvation issue in tiny devices during communication. In these existing conventional mechanisms, the plain text is generally converted into cipher text with greater size than the plain text at the device level, which leads to resource starvation. At the time of transmission, the cipher text at the device end requires more bandwidth than the plain text which puts bandwidth overhead on the broadcast channel (BC)