Author(s)

Jegadish Kumar Kailairajan Jeyaprakash, Joseph Gladwin Seka^*, Kamaraj Villayutham

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, Chennai, India.

Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network (WMSN) is an advancement of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) that encapsulates WSN with multimedia information like image and video. The primary factors considered in the design and deployment of WSN are low power consumption, high speed and memory requirements. Security is indeed a major concern, in any communication system. Consequently, design of compact and high speed WMSN with cryptography algorithm for security, without compromising on sensor node performance is a challenge and this paper proposes a new lightweight symmetric key encryption algorithm based on 1 D cellular automata theory. Simulations are performed using MatLab and synthesized using Xilinx ISE. The proposed approach supports both software and hardware implementation and provides better performance compared to other existing algorithms in terms of number of slices, throughput and other hardware utilization.

Cryptography, WMSN, Cellular Automata, Reversible Cellular Automata, KAMAR, Feistel Block Cipher, Key Scheduling Algorithm, FPGA

Jeyaprakash, J. , Seka, J. and Villayutham, K. (2016) KAMAR: A Lightweight Feistel Block Cipher Using Cellular Automata. Circuits and Systems, 7, 222-230. doi: 10.4236/cs.2016.74021.