Abstract:
Flexibility is one of the driving agents for 5G architecture development to incorporate enhanced mobile broad band, machine type communication (MTC), and ultra-reliable MTC. While considering exibility in the domain of security/reliability, we present a uni ed and exible hardware architecture, implementing point multiplication algorithm for both elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) and Binary Huff Curves (BHC). The proposed architecture can be used in the scenarios where the users can tradeoff between the algorithmic execution time and different reliability/security levels. To establish an area overhead for the uni ed design, dedicated architectures for ECC and BHC over the GF(2m) eld are implemented in the rst step and compared with state-of-the-art. Then, a uni ed architecture for ECC and BHC is implemented. The performance results of proposed uni ed architecture illustrate the trade-off between execution time and security level.
