LOTKIP: Low Overhead TKIP Optimization for Ad Hoc Wireless Network

TL;DR

This paper introduces LOTKIP, an optimized version of TKIP, which reduces processing overhead and energy consumption in ad hoc wireless networks by minimizing redundancy and implementing a low-overhead frame encapsulation.

Contribution

The paper presents LOTKIP, a novel optimization of TKIP that decreases computational complexity and energy use through redundancy minimization and efficient frame encapsulation.

Findings

LOTKIP reduces encryption time compared to baseline TKIP.

LOTKIP consumes less energy during security processing.

Simulation shows improved efficiency in ad hoc networks.

Abstract

Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) is a provisional solution for Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) security loopholes present in already widely deployed legacy 802.11 wireless devices. In this work, we model and analyse the computational complexity of TKIP security mechanism and propose an optimised implementation, called LOTKIP, to decrease processing overhead for better energy efficient security performance. The LOTKIP improvements are based on minimising key mixing redundancy and a novel frame encapsulation with low overhead. We simulate and compare LOTKIP with baseline TKIP in terms of complexity and energy consumption for ad hoc wireless network security. From simulation results, we demonstrate that LOTKIP executes with lower computational complexity, hence, with faster encryption time and more energy-efficient.