Performance analysis of ID-based authentication On Zigbee transceiver

It is widely recognized that wireless sensors are not only resource constrained but are vulnerable to outsider and insider attacks. As such wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have to be designed using low energy wireless sensor devices as well be implemented with due consideration for the security of the network. In a previous work, we have identified IBE as one of the most suitable protocol for WSN. In this paper, we present an implementation of the IBE-Trust protocol on workstations, which then, communicate with each other through Zigbee transceivers (XBee). Energy comparison based on different data size input between RSA-1024, conventional ECC-160 and IBE-Trust protocol are identified. Experimental and theoretical results of IBE-Trust protocol communication also are compared. It was found, IBE-Trust protocol consumes less energy compare to RSA-1024, but, more energy consumption than ECC-160. We believe the code design and distance are the major factors that lead to high energy consumption.