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Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are seen as attractive solutions for various monitoring and controlling applications, a large part of which require cryptographic protection. Due to the strict cost and power consumption requirements, their cryptographic implementations should be compact and energy-efficient. In this paper, we survey hardware architectures proposed for Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) implementations in low-cost and low-power devices. The survey considers both dedicated hardware and specialized processor designs. According to our review, currently 8-bit dedicated hardware designs seem to be the most feasible solutions for embedded, low-power WSN nodes. Alternatively, compact special functional units can be used for extending the instruction sets of WSN node processors for efficient AES execution.
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Hämäläinen, P., Hännikäinen, M., Hämäläinen, T.D. (2007). Review of Hardware Architectures for Advanced Encryption Standard Implementations Considering Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Vassiliadis, S., Bereković, M., Hämäläinen, T.D. (eds) Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation. SAMOS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4599. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73625-7_45
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