Hypercube Routing Protocol with Secure Data Transmission Mechanisms in Sensor Networks Using Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Key Agreements

This study presents a hypercube routing algorithm with secure data transmissions, which provides rapid, efficient and fault-tolerant routing mechanisms using elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) scheme to perform key agreements and secure data transmissions. Since ECDH uses a small key length 160-bit to achieve compatible security levels on 1024-bit Diffee-Hellman (DH), therefore sensor nodes only need few CPU, memory and bandwidth to complete security operations. Consequently, the proposed routing algorithm with secure data transmissions can perform very rapidly and efficiently, and are highly suited for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) with limited resources.