Growing energy needs are forcing governments to look for alternative resources and ways to
better manage the energy grid and load balancing. As a major initiative, many countries …

The Internet of Things (IoT) will feature pervasive sensing and control capabilities via a
massive deployment of machine-type communication (MTC) devices. The limited hardware …

Designing a routing protocol for large low-power and lossy networks (LLNs), consisting of
thousands of constrained nodes and unreliable links, presents new challenges. The IPv6 …

The Internet of Things (IoT) provides transparent and seamless incorporation of
heterogeneous and different end systems. It has been widely used in many applications …

Energy is a central concern in the deployment of wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we
investigate the energy cost of cryptographic protocols, both from a communication and a …

Lightweight Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is a critical component for constructing the
security system of Internet of Things (IoT). In this paper, we define an emerging family of …

With the increased application of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to military, commercial,
and home environments, securing the data in the network has become a critical issue …

Wireless sensor networks are deployed without predefined infrastructure and are generally
left unattended. Indeed, the vulnerability of the wireless sensor networks to attacks comes …

Because of their low cost and adaptability, wireless sensor networks are widely used in civil,
military, and commercial fields and other fields. However, since the sensor node in the …

The IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) was recently
introduced as the new routing standard for the Internet of Things. Although RPL defines …