The SimpleScalar tool set, version 2.0
ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News
Wattch: a framework for architectural-level power analysis and optimizations
Proceedings of the 27th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Encryption overhead in embedded systems and sensor network nodes: modeling and analysis
Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Compilers, architecture and synthesis for embedded systems
Energy Analysis of Public-Key Cryptography for Wireless Sensor Networks
PERCOM '05 Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
Survey and benchmark of block ciphers for wireless sensor networks
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
Energy evaluation of software implementations of block ciphers under memory constraints
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
Hybrid Key Establishment Protocol Based on ECC for Wireless Sensor Network
UIC '07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing
Public key cryptography in sensor networks—revisited
ESAS'04 Proceedings of the First European conference on Security in Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks
An implantable telemetry platform system for in vivo monitoring of physiological parameters
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
Profiling of lossless-compression algorithms for a novel biomedical-implant architecture
CODES+ISSS '08 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE/ACM/IFIP international conference on Hardware/Software codesign and system synthesis
A system architecture, processor, and communication protocol for secure implants
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)
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Starting with the implantable pacemaker, microelectronic implants have been around for more than 50 years. A plethora of commercial and research-oriented devices have been developed so far for a wide range of biomedical applications. In view of an envisioned expanding implant market in the years to come, our ongoing research work is focusing on the specification and design of a novel biomedical microprocessor core, carefully tailored to a large subset of existing and future biomedical applications. Towards this end, we have taken steps in identifying various tasks commonly required by such applications and profiling their behavior and requirements. One such task is decryption of incoming commands to an implant and encryption of outgoing (telemetered) biological data. Secure bidirectional information relaying in implants has been largely overlooked so far although protection of personal (biological) data is very crucial. In this context, we evaluate a large number of symmetric (block) ciphers in terms of various metrics: average and peak power consumption, total energy budget, encryption rate and efficiency, program-code size and security level. For our study we use XTREM, a performance and power simulator for Intel's XScale embedded processor. Findings indicate the best-performing ciphers across most metrics to be MISTY1 (scores high in 5 out of 6 imposed metrics), IDEA and RC6 (both present in 4 out of 6 metrics). Further profiling of MISTY1 indicates a clear dominance of load/store, move and logic-operation instructions which gives us explicit directions for designing the architecture of our novel processor.