Enhancing key management of ZigBee network by steganography method

ZigBee is short distance, low complexity, low data rate, and low power consumption wireless personal area network and it has several applications in industry and healthcare. One of the vulnerability in key management of ZigBee network is frame counter of cryptography nonce. This paper proposes model based on steganography method that eliminates vulnerability of frame counter of nonce and consumes less energy than cryptography algorithm.