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Efficient hardware architecture for the AES-CCM protocol of the IEEE 802.11i standard

2010; Elsevier BV; Volume: 36; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.compeleceng.2009.12.011

1879-0755

Ignacio Algredo‐Badillo, Claudia Feregrino-Uribe, René Cumplido, Miguel Morales‐Sandoval,

Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks

Applications of wireless communications networks are emerging continuously. To offer a good level of security in these applications, new standards for wireless communications propose solutions based on cryptographic algorithms working on special modes of operation. This work presents a custom hardware architecture for the AES-CCM protocol (AES-CCMP) which is the basis for the security architecture of the IEEE 802.11i standard. AES-CCMP is based on the AES-CCM algorithm that performs the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) in CTR with CBC-MAC mode (CCM mode), plus specialized data formatting modules, providing different security services through iterative and complex operations. Results of implementing the proposed architecture targeting FPGA devices are presented and discussed. A comparison against similar works shows significant improvements in terms of both throughput and efficiency.