IKEv2 Authentication Exchange Model in NS-2

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)communications has become one of the most emerging fields in the area of wireless communication technologies. Integration of WSN with internet technologies has been enhanced because of the use of 6LowPAN standard. This leads to the challenges and significance of end-to-end security in 6LoWPAN communication between IPv6 enabled sensor networks and the Internet hosts. Many researchers have proposed the use of IPsec/IKE to WSNs for reinforcing the end-to-end security communication. Till now IKE module have not been implemented or added in a network simulator. In the proposed paper we have implemented the IKE module in Network Simulator-2 (NS2) simulator. This new module will helps to study in detail about the end-to-end security in wireless communication. In this paper we have also discussed and compared the pros and cons of network simulators like OMNET++, TOSSIM and COOJA with NS2.