Research Article

Power Adaptive Data Encryption for Energy-Efficient and Secure Communication in Solar-Powered Wireless Sensor Networks

Table 3

Notation for ESCS-Init() and ESCS().

SymbolMeaning

Amount of residual energy of node
Energy threshold for changing mode,
1 if sensor node is in energy-rich mode, otherwise 0
ψEnergy window to prevent frequent change of the mode
AESOne of the symmetric-key encryption algorithms
ECIESOne of the public-key encryption algorithms
PeriodPeriodic invocation cycle of the ESCS()