Abstract:
Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network (WMSN) is an environment for transferring
images, audios, and videos. However, it has many restrictions and limitations that
affect the security level as well as the required power consumption. This project
is to implement the protection of sensitive data transmission through wireless
networks with high performance and low power consumption. The
implementation is based on Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) using the
Verilog HDL hardware language for the hardware programming and C/C++ high-
level languages for the software programming of the FPGA. The project
implementation is proposed for the solution that was presented by Hraini.[1] In the
hardware implementation, RGB images are included in addition to the grayscale
images in the software solution. Images are compressed by Set Partitioning in
Hierarchic Tree (SPIHT) algorithm[2] and encrypted selectively during the
compression process (i.e. jointly). The importance of this project lies in being
useful in making a secure environment for transferring images through the most
unsecured networks which are wireless networks such as Bluetooth as was
applied in this project. The expected results are a hardware implementation that
corresponds to the software solution in Hraini’s thesis. Also, the system is
expected to present secure transmission for RGB and grayscale images through
wireless networks in addition to perform the proposed security solution in a way
that guarantees a minimum use of power consumption and high performance.
Also, it is expected to satisfy the data confidentiality and privacy the software
solution aimed to apply besides having a very compact output bitstream and a
constant bitrate in both parties (i.e., sender party and receiver party) as has been
achieved in the software solution.
