Performance Impacts of Lower-Layer Cryptographic Methods in Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Technical Report · Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2002

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/805840· OSTI ID:805840

VAN LEEUWEN, BRIAN P ^[1]; TORGERSON, MARK D

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1. Sandia National Laboratories

In high consequence systems, all layers of the protocol stack need security features. If network and data-link layer control messages are not secured, a network may be open to adversarial manipulation. The open nature of the wireless channel makes mobile wireless mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) especially vulnerable to control plane manipulation. The objective of this research is to investigate MANET performance issues when cryptographic processing delays are applied at the data-link layer. The results of analysis are combined with modeling and simulation experiments to show that network performance in MANETs is highly sensitive to the cryptographic overhead.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (US); Sandia National Labs., Livermore, CA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: US Department of Energy (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 805840
• Report Number(s): SAND2002-3340
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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