Performance of Secure Ad Hoc Sensor Networks Utilizing IEEE802.11b WEP

Author

Saleh, Mohammad ; Al Khatib, Iyad

Author_Institution

iIT-Consulting, Stockholm

fYear

2005

fDate

17-17 Aug. 2005

Firstpage

68

Lastpage

72

Abstract

This paper presents a QoS research study on ad hoc sensor networks from a delay point of view when WEP (wired equivalent privacy) security is enabled or disabled. A queuing model with one queue and two servers is used to estimate the security delays in the traffic between ad hoc sensor nodes. An algorithm is designed to estimate the service time delay and the security time delay based on measured timestamps. The main result is that the security adds a significant delay that may affect future killer applications over ad hoc sensor networks like secure medical application, robotics applications, voice over IP (VoIP) and other delay-sensitive multimedia applications

Keywords

ad hoc networks; delays; quality of service; queueing theory; telecommunication security; wireless sensor networks; IEEE 802.11b; QoS; VoIP; WEP security; ad hoc sensor networks; multimedia applications; queuing model; robotics applications; secure medical application; security time delay; service time delay; voice over IP; wired equivalent privacy; Added delay; Algorithm design and analysis; Delay effects; Delay estimation; Medical services; Network servers; Privacy; Telecommunication traffic; Time measurement; Traffic control; Ad hoc; IEEE802.11b; WEP; performance; security; sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems Communications, 2005. Proceedings

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que., Canada

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2422-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICW.2005.67

Filename

1515504