An Improved Broadcast Authentication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Based on the Self-Reinitializable Hash Chains

Table 5

The basic simulation configurations.

Parameters	Value
Elements number
Subsequences number	4
Bucket number per subsequence
Average load per bucket	6
Cells number per bucket	8
Counter length	2 bits
Storage element length	= 14 bits
Hash function	MD5
Pseudorandom permutation
Proportional parameter in permutation	A random odd number below