Wireless Security & Cryptography

As the use of wireless devices becomes widespread, so does the need for strong and secure transport protocols. Even with this intensified need for securing systems, using cryptography does not seem to be a viable solution due to difficulties in implementation. The security layers of many wireless protocols use outdated encryption algorithms, which have proven unsuitable for hardware usage, particularly with handheld devices. Summarizing key issues involved in achieving desirable performance in security implementations, Wireless Security and Cryptography: Specifications and Implementations focuses on alternative integration approaches for wireless communication security. It gives an overview of the current security layer of wireless protocols and presents the performance characteristics of implementations in both software and hardware. This resource also presents efficient and novel methods to execute security schemes in wireless protocols with high performance. It provides the state of the art research trends in implementations of wireless protocol security for current and future wireless communications. Unique in its coverage of specification and implementation concerns that include hardware design techniques, Wireless Security and Cryptography: Specifications and Implementations provides thorough coverage of wireless network security and recent research directions in the field.

Nicolas Sklavos received a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering and a diploma in electrical and computer engineering in 2004 and 2000, respectively, both from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Patras, Greece. In 2005, he joined the Telecommunications Systems and Networks Department of the Technological Educational Institute of Messolonghi, Nafpaktos, Greece, where he works as an assistant professor. His research interests include security and privacy, wireless communications security, and mobile networks. He holds an award for his Ph.D. thesis on ‘‘VLSI Designs o fWireless Communications Security Systems,’’ from IFIP VLSI SOC, Germany (2003). He has also contributed to international journals and participated in the organization of conferences, as program committee and guest editor. Dr. Sklavos is a member of the IEEE, IEE, the Technical Chamber of Greece, and the Greek Electrical Engineering Society. He has authored and coauthored up to 90 scientific articles, books and book chapters, reviews, and technical reports in the areas of his research. He can be contacted at nsklavos@ieee.org.

Xinmiao Zhang received B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in 1997 and 2000, respectively. She received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, in 2005. Since then, she has been with Case Western Reserve University, where she is currently a Timothy E. and Allison L. Schroeder Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Her research interests include efficient VLSI architecture design for communications, cryptosystems, and digital signal processing. Dr. Zhang is the recipient of the Best Paper Award at ACM Great Lake Symposium on VLSI 2004. She also won the first prize in the Student Paper Contest at the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers 2004. She is a member of the IEEE.

Overview of Cryptographic Primitives for SecureCommunication, Palash SarkarIntroduction to Communication Security, Vesna HasslerEfficient VLSI Architectures for the Advanced EncryptionStandard Algorithm, Xinmiao ZhangHardware Design Issues in Elliptic Curve Cryptographyfor Wireless Systems, Apostolos P. Fournaris and O. KoufopavlouEfficient Elliptic Curve Cryptographic Hardware Designfor Wireless Security, Loai A. Tawalbeh and Cetin Kaya KocCryptographic Algorithms in Constrained Environments, Vincent Rijmen and Norbert PramstallerSide-Channel Analysis Attacks on Hardware Implementationsof Cryptographic Algorithms, Siddika Berna Ors, Bart Preneel, and Ingrid VerbauwhedeSecurity Enhancement Layer for Bluetooth, Panu Hamalainen, Marko Hannikainen, and Timo D. HamalainenWLAN Security Processing Architectures, Neil Smyth, Maire McLoone, and John V. McCannySecurity Architecture and Implementation of the Universal MobileTelecommunication System, Paris Kitsos and Nicolas SklavosWireless Application Protocol Security Processor: Privacy,Authentication, and Data Integrity, Nicolas SklavosBinary Algorithms for Modular Inversion, Erkay SavasSmart Card Technology, Martin ManningerIndex