SC IJPE 23Title: Reed-Solomon Code based Green & Survivable Communications Using Selective Encryption Author: Honggang Wang, Liudong Xing, and Howard E. Michel, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA Received on: November 10, 2009Abstract: Reliability and security are two major criteria for survivable communication in error-prone wireless environments. To ensure reliable communication, Forward Error Correcting (FEC) codes such as Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are employed for error detection and correction by adding redundancies into the original data to form code words. Secure data communication based on FEC is achieved in many traditional approaches by encrypting the whole code words, which is not computational or energy efficient. In this paper, we propose a new selective encryption approach based on FEC code words to effectively sustain both green and survivable communications in wireless networking systems.Status: Accepted, being published in IJPE, Vol. 6, No. 3, May 2010, pp. 297-299.
