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Several security solutions have been proposed for wireless networks, most of these are based on lightweight security measures and contain significant drawbacks, such as transit path dependency and high bandwidth overhead. In this work we compare a Packet Level Authentication (PLA), which is a public key based solution, against hash tree and hash chain based solutions in terms of security and energy overhead in wireless environment. We argue that due to advances in the semiconductor technology, public key based security solutions are viable for wireless networks. In many cases they actually achieve a better energy efficiency due to their lower bandwidth overhead.
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Lagutin, D., Tarkoma, S. (2009). Public Key Signatures and Lightweight Security Solutions in a Wireless Environment. In: Balandin, S., Moltchanov, D., Koucheryavy, Y. (eds) Smart Spaces and Next Generation Wired/Wireless Networking. ruSMART NEW2AN 2009 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5764. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04190-7_23
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