Simulation and Analysis of Distributed Wireless Sensor Network using Message Passing Interface

TL;DR

This paper proposes a grid-based IPC architecture with parallel AES encryption for wireless sensor networks, demonstrating improved security, cost-efficiency, and power savings through simulation analysis.

Contribution

It introduces a novel grid-based IPC architecture combined with parallel AES encryption, enhancing security and efficiency in wireless sensor networks.

Findings

Grid-based IPC architecture outperforms traditional methods in efficiency.

Parallel AES encryption maintains security with reduced power consumption.

Simulation results validate the architecture's effectiveness in real-world scenarios.

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are used by many industries from environment monitoring systems to NASA's space exploration programs, as it has allowed society to monitor and prevent problems before they occur with less cost and maintenance. This document aims to propose and analyze an efficient inter process communication (IPC) architecture using a nearest neighbor/grid based socket architecture. A parallelized version of the AES encryption algorithm is also used in order to increase the security of the WSN. First the proposed architecture is compared and contrasted against other well established architectures. Next, the benefits and drawbacks of the AES encryption algorithm is elucidated. The Message Parsing Interface (MPI) library in C is used for the communication while OpenMP is used for parallelizing the encryption algorithm. Next an analysis is performed on the results obtained from multiple simulations. Finally a conclusion is made that the grid based IPC architecture with AES parallel encryption helps WSNs maintain security in communication while being cost and power efficient to operate.