Research Article

Design and Simulation of Lightweight Identity Authentication Mechanism in Body Area Network

Table 5

Resource consumption of different authentication mechanisms.

ā€‰Communication overhead (bits)Computational overhead (ms)Energy consumption (mJ)

PUF-BASEDControl nodes14722.910.379
Sensor nodes0.28
HASH-BASEDControl nodes11200.480.093
Sensor nodes0.3
ECC-BASEDControl nodes185626.464.73
Sensor nodes13.35