Research Article

Digital Implementation of an Improved LTE Stream Cipher Snow-3G Based on Hyperchaotic PRNG

Table 1

FPGA implementation results and comparison.

ResourceHC SNOW-3G (proposed)Regular SNOW-3GPLCM SNOW-3G [31]
DeviceVirtex XC5vfx70t-1ff1136Virtex XC5vfx70t-1ff1136Virtex XC5vfx70t-1ff1136
Number of slice registers23919121131
Number of slice LUTs788111082495
Number of fully used LUT-FFpairs17138811046
Number of bonded IOBs565656
Number of BUFG/BUFGCTRLs111
Number of blockRAM/FIFO101010
Maximum frequency (Mhz)28.84287.8113.83
Throughput (Mbps)922.888264.32442.56
Power (Watts)1.361.341.36