Optimizing Energy Efficiency of Secured IoT Communication by OpenHip

The research in the area of Internet-of-Things (IoT) security is still underway due to the growing IoT networks. The main goal of the existing works, optimizing security protocols, is to make them more efficient in order to reduce their energy requirements. The result is the extended lifetime of the device powered by a battery, while preserving all the security features of the protocol such as confidentiality, integrity, authenticity, etc. Based on the analysis, we have decided to focus on the protocol HIP (Host Identity Protocol), identified several optimization possibilities for efficient use in the IoT area, and proposed its modification. The analytical and experimental evaluation shows that the proposed modifications are beneficial regarding the energy efficiency of the HIP protocol.